[FaMe]

Na'Vi pennant at the ready!
Supporting aL in my heart though.

[Apostrophe]

Yet to get my Zenith pennant but anytime soon now. :P

[Theend]

Zenith is a legendary team in singapore. Hope they win this one

[FaMe]

aL beat Mouz Game 1. Game 2 about to start for anyone awake and interested

[Another]

iceiceice had such a sick game on lesh, got up to 24 bloodstone charges! Though he had a pretty poor game on invoker the game before that one

Quick Comments

PiG:

haha could just keep his ult on perma? <3 lesh + bloodstone charges

[Cyanide]

For those who have dota 2 and never tried the in-game spectator thing. give it a try, it is the best eSports viewing experience i have ever had.

Streams are NOTHING compared to this. You can choose the casters (language). choose to have their camera view or your own. The casters can draw on the screens (e.g. circling key areas or points of attack etc.)

And because of Valve's micro-transaction system, there's a Pennant system that allows you to win an in-game item while supporting your team. Simply buy the team's pennant that you wanna support ($0.99), and equip it. Then spectate their match and stand a chance to win a prize if they win (i think i got this right)!

SC2 has a lot to learn from this if the can actually do something similar!

[nirvAnA]

damn cyanide that sounds fantastic. I have to download the client now!!!!

[ProAnnn]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

damn cyanide that sounds fantastic. I have to download the client now!!!!

Its really damn shiok to watch. Cause u can listen to the casters and move your own camera OR you can follow the caster camera! And you have access to all the graphs!

[DUCKVILLELOL]

Originally Posted by Cyanide

Simply buy the team's pennant that you wanna support ($0.99), and equip it. Then spectate their match and stand a chance to win a prize if they win (i think i got this right)!

Just to clarify that bit: if you equip the pennant while your team is playing, you have a chance of gaining an in-game dota2 item (one of the cosmetic items that you normally have a chance of getting) - however from what I hear there are some "special" TI2 items that are floating around

Originally Posted by Cyanide

SC2 has a lot to learn from this if the can actually do something similar!

My next blog post is going to be about how incredibly "advanced" dota2 is already, compared to SC2. It's kind of insulting to SC2 that Dota2 has these amazing features and despite the claim of being "one of the best esports" SC2 has none of it.

Finishing up work this week, I'm going to finally get to watch all of TI2

[Bash]

Originally Posted by Cyanide

Simply buy the team's pennant that you wanna support ($0.99), and equip it. Then spectate their match and stand a chance to win a prize if they win (i think i got this right)!

The items from this are really cool, as far as i know the "items"" theselves are all the Couriers that are only available during the internation (Lockjaw, smeevil and the Drodo?),

The ones you can get via spectating are super-cool in that you can use them to bring up the replay of that game, 15 seconds before the "triggered" drop
- So lets say someone is playing tidehunter, blinks into a teamfight and uses his ulti, and for some crazy reason gets 2+ kills, the courier will have a functon that lets you go 15 seconds before this happened, so you can watch it again and again and again.

Drop triggers include
- Double Kill
- Triple Kill
- Anything above (They're separate instances - so 1 will be given out whent he double kill occurs, and another one when the triple kill occurs)
- Aegis Denies
- Aegis steals (i think)
- A win.

learnt most of the above via reddit.

[Another]

yeah valve has been so amazing with dota2, while dota could never rival sc2 in gameplay, the UI and eSports initiatives they are making could really threaten sc2 as the lead esport. Valve has jumped in the drivers seat for dota2, while blizzard doesnt seem to be bothered either way what happens

[Cyanide]

Wow! thanks for clarification! looks like the pennant system is way more than a lucky draw thing! i might just buy one and support zenith today!

[Unstable]

Does it require the pennant to watch ingame?, like a new pennant per tournament, or can you spectate without paying anything?

[syfChadMann]

Oh... nvm.

I think to spec each team you need that pennant?.. idk

[Unstable]

Im asking purely from contemplating business side of things.

Streams are free and sponsors get logo's etc but watching ingame they get none of that. So if its free to watch in game as well makes me feel uneasy, but if you have to do micro transaction to watch ingame that = ******* amazing

[Cyanide]

edit: It is free to watch in-game

The in-game maps have the teams "flags" in it, where logos and sponsors names are usually on it.

[Unstable]

Originally Posted by Cyanide

streams are free to watch.

The in-game maps have the teams "flags" in it, where logos and sponsors names are usually on it.

I meant from the tournament's point of view, for example the sponsors of the tournaments, they get exposure via on screen ads and statistics, but if they watch in game, so the only way to really make a return on it for the tournament itself, since they wouldnt be watching the streams, would be micro transactions to watch ingame instead of watching ads on stream,

It's been a long day so if im not making sense dw lol

[Cyanide]

oh, i get it.

That's interesting, because I don't see anything like that at all. Even the Dota2 homepage doesn't show anything like that.

[Unstable]

Its probably in the pipeline for later but different for the international, really good feature if that is the case tho, will allow events to be self sustaining so much easier. Good times ahead for Dota2 imo

[Bash]

Originally Posted by Unstable

Its probably in the pipeline for later but different for the international, really good feature if that is the case tho, will allow events to be self sustaining so much easier. Good times ahead for Dota2 imo

The international is free to watch, i know alot of other tournaments have a pay-to-watch ticket if you wanna watch via the ingame client, or you anw atch for free on their streams, some tournaments give you cool things if you buy a ticket, IE - The Defense season 2 ticket holders got a special edition "Defense" War dog Courier.

As well as what cyanide said- theres flags and sections on the map (like the each teams fountain) That has space where teams casn put their logo/sponsor logos etc, i know EG is showing their logo and the Monster logo at the mid-river, while their base has the raidcall logo. Its pretty cool, some other teams just show all their logos on all positions (Which is difficult to make out which is which in some locations, they're too small)