Congratulations to Team Liquid, Grand Champions at The International 2024. Dropping only three games throughout their championship run, this relentless Liquid squad washed away a field of fearsome contenders to resoundingly earn their place as the finest Dota team in the world.

Team Liquid's journey to the Aegis started smoothly with a pair of 2-0 series wins over Aurora and beastcoast, but a 0-2 showing against defending champions Team Spirit reminded everyone that the path to immortality is filled with formidable foes.

Their next opponent would only prove that point further. With Liquid holding a 1-0 advantage and the Upper Bracket almost within reach, underdogs BB Team ran away with the second match of their seeding set, threatening Liquid with a much more difficult Lower Bracket path. Undaunted, Liquid leveraged early action in game three to build an avalanching lead and ultimately secure their place in the Upper Bracket to begin the next stage.

Once there, the eventual champions never looked back. Their heroes were almost unkillable in a dominating 2-0 win over Xtreme Gaming, with only a single death amongst them in game two. Carrying that momentum forward, they opened their series on the main stage against Cloud9 with another stomp. Game two turned into a closer back-and-forth fight, but Liquid rode an epic late game teamwipe to victory and a place in the Upper Bracket Final against a familiar opponent — and constant obstacle in their path — the dangerous Gaimin Gladiators.

Flipping precedent, Liquid withstood Gaimin's early aggression and took the series 2-0, marching convincingly into the Grand Final. After Gaimin battled their way back for a rematch, Team Liquid took the chance to demonstrate that the results of the first matchup were no fluke. They dispatched their old nemesis in decisive 3-0 fashion to secure the Aegis and a place in Dota 2 history.

As bearers of the ultimate symbol of victory, these names shall forever be inscribed upon the Aegis of Champions:

2024 - Team Liquid

• Michael "miCKe" Vu
  
• Michał "Nisha" Jankowski
  
• Neta "33" Shapira
  
• Samuel "Boxi" Svahn
  
• Aydin "Insania" Sarkohi

Looking Back

We would like to once again thank all of the players, talent, and everyone in the Dota community for helping bring this global celebration to life. If you missed any of the tournament, or just want to relive the incredible plays, head over to the Dota 2 YouTube channel, where you can find replays of the entire tournament. You can also find a trove of photos from the event over on the Dota 2 Instagram and Dota 2 flickr.

Celebrate the Champions

Special Champion edition sticker capsules are now available for purchase for Team Liquid. Each capsule contains one sticker featuring miCKe, Nisha, 33, Boxi, Insania, or Team Liquid. 50% of all sales will go directly to Team Liquid.

The International Compendium

If you've still got some challenges to complete and rewards to claim in The International 2024 Compendium, there's a bit more time before it all wraps up. You can still snag additional levels for your Compendium until Tuesday, October 15th, and other goodies like supporters packs, talent bundles, and champion stickers will be available a few weeks longer.

Upcoming Hero and Crownfall Act IV

Also, in case you missed the trailer during The International, we announced Dota's next hero. Leader of the flightless, sworn enemy of Queen Imperia, and general troublemaker Kez will be joining the roster of Dota heroes when Crownfall Act IV releases.

For five straight days, sixteen teams have slugged their way through the Playoffs, and eight teams have earned a coveted spot at the main event: Team Liquid, Cloud9, Tundra Esports and Gaimin Gladiators in the upper bracket, and BB Team, Team Falcons, Aurora Gaming and Xtreme Gaming in the lower bracket.

Congratulations to all eight teams as they vie to capture the Aegis at The International — only at Copenhagen's Royal Arena, starting on the luckiest day of the year, Friday, September 13th!

[h5]Schedule[/h5]
The International Pre-show starts at 9:30 AM CEST, with the Opening Ceremony starting at 10 AM CEST and the first match between BB Team and Team Falcons starting soon after. Click here for the full schedule.

[h5]Getting In[/h5]
Arena doors open at 8 AM CEST daily, two hours before every day's first match at 10 AM CEST, Friday through Sunday. Be ready to scan your Ticketmaster pass to gain entry (you can save it to your Android/Apple phone wallet for convenience). Make sure to get it scanned again anytime you leave, so you can use the same pass to re-enter.

[h5]Getting To The Royal Arena[/h5]
Here are directions to the Royal Arena. There are Metro stations and a train station just a few minutes walk from the arena. Visit https://rejseplanen.dk/ for timetables.

[h5]Crimson Witness Treasure Drops[/h5]
Inside the venue, there are two locations where you can show your ticket and pick up that day's commemorative badge, one near the ground floor entrance and another near the first floor main entrance. Each day has a unique badge, and you'll have to link that day's badge to be eligible for Crimson Witness treasures, which will be dropped randomly for attendees with bound badges at the first blood of every game. This year’s event-exclusive treasure includes updated Immortal items for Night Stalker, Meepo, Disruptor, Luna and Templar Assassin!

If you're one of the millions of Dota fans around the globe planning to watch The International online, check out the list below. From Twitch to YouTube to SteamTV, The International will be streamed on multiple platforms in multiple languages.

• English: Twitch, SteamTV, YouTube
  
• Spanish: Twitch, Facebook, SteamTV, YouTube
  
• Russian: Twitch, SteamTV, YouTube
  
• Chinese: Twitch, SteamTV, Bilibili

The Secret Shop has two separate storefronts this year, depending on what part of the globe you're buying from— We Are Nations offers both US deliveries and international deliveries, and Perfect World offers domestic China deliveries and international deliveries. The stores have different items, so be sure to check out both.

If you’d like to see how the top eight teams got to where they are in the standings, you can
catch up on Playoffs matches here!

(Image credit: Baguettes)

We've reached the apex of the current ETF2L Highlander season! This is a Premiership Grand Final that promises to be the fiercest in recent years! Top seed, 4House, takes on the multi-season reigning champion, SDCK!, having beaten them handily earlier in the season. These two powerhouses will resume battle across three separate maps on Thursday, September 12th, at 21:15 CEST / 12:15pm PDT!

Could this finally be the season that someone rips the ETF2L Premiership Highlander crown from the vice-like grip of SDCK!? Be sure to watch the action and find out!

Join the Twitch stream live!
Watch later on YouTube!

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• Practice matches and matches started with the "map" command will now run in engine loopback mode to match the CS:GO offline default. Engine loopback bypasses most networking code for the host, resulting in one less tick of latency for the local player. Engine loopback can be disabled by appending "loopback=0" to the map command-line (e.g. "map de_dust2 loopback=0").

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• Added counter-strafe input automation detection options for non-Valve servers. See the sv_auto_cstrafe family of convar descriptions for details.
  
• Enabled measurement of network jitter on direct UDP connections to community servers. Previously, jitter measurement was only available for connections relayed over SDR. Jitter data is included in the net_connections_status command output.

AsiaFortress Liquid.tf is hosting its first-ever Team Fortress 2 Highlander Grand Final this Saturday!

The land of legacies brings its very first season of Highlander! The Grand Final will feature two of the best Highlander teams in Asia, each vying for the ultimate title of the first Highlander Champions. This match is more than just a game — it's an opportunity to forge a new legacy!

Catch more Sniper, Spy and Pyro action than you've ever seen! Tune in live on the 7th of September @ 8pm SGT / 1pm CEST!

Important Links:

• Twitch
  
• YouTube
  
• Twitter
  
• Discord

The best Dota players in the world have arrived in Copenhagen and the games are about to begin. That's right: The Road to TI's Group Stage is officially underway for The International 2024.

There's a lot of fun stuff to cover before the event starts, and not a lot of time, so we're gonna stop introducing the information and start the informing. Let's get to it.

Group Stage is always glorious chaos. This year, almost fifty games will be played in the first two days alone, spread across three streams for each of the four official broadcast languages:

• English: Twitch: Stream A, Stream B, Stream C; SteamTV: Stream A, Stream B, Stream C; YouTube: All Streams
  
• Spanish: Twitch: Stream A, Stream B, Stream C; Facebook: All Streams; SteamTV: Stream A, Stream B, Stream C; YouTube: All Streams
  
• Russian: Twitch: Stream A, Stream B, Stream C, Multi-Stream; SteamTV: Stream A, Stream B, Stream C, Multi-Stream; YouTube: All Streams
  
• Chinese: Twitch: Stream A, Stream B, Stream C; SteamTV: Stream A, Stream B, Stream C; Bilibili: Stream A, Stream B, Stream C

After Group Stage wraps up, starting Friday, September 6th, both The Road to the International and The International itself will broadcast on one stream per official language:

• English: Twitch, SteamTV, YouTube
  
• Spanish: Twitch, FaceBook, SteamTV, YouTube
  
• Russian: Twitch, SteamTV, YouTube
  
• Chinese: Twitch, SteamTV, Bilibili

If you're looking for unofficial languages, we've got those, too. We've handed out more than a dozen broadcast licenses, ranging from Bulgarian to Vietnamese, so check in with your local Dota community to find the best way to watch online.

And as always, anyone is welcome to join in on the streaming fun. We only ask that you follow our community streaming guidelines.

The International Secret Shop is once again open for business. We've got everything from mouse pads to jerseys to a real-life Toy Pudge plush, and so much more. There are two separate storefronts — We Are Nations offers both US deliveries and international deliveries, and Perfect World offers domestic China deliveries and international deliveries.

Ground-floor tickets for The International have sold out, and even arena seats are mostly gone, but there are still a few left.

For attendees:

• Your Ticketmaster ticket can be used for re-entry. Just remember to scan out as you leave so you can re-enter later in the day if you’d like.
  
• Each day of the event, you'll get a new commemorative badge with a unique code that can be registered to your Steam account for potential Crimson Witness treasure drops. (The URL for registration is on the badge.)

That's it for now. Honestly, that was a lot of information, and we're not going to lie, there might even be more on the way. But for now, don't worry about it. Just sit back, relax, and reread this blog post until you can recite it phonetically. We'll be calling everyone personally to verify you've got it memorized. You got this! Talk soon.

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• Fixed a case where some commands, including jump, might be ignored under poor network conditions.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause inconsistent jump heights.
  
• Fixed a case where client player collision would remain disabled after ragdoll interaction occurred in the previous round. Thanks for the repro steps, @poggu__.
  
• Fixed a case for Linux users where the game would hang when opening the pause menu.

Patch 7.37c is out now. You can check out the patchnotes here.

The International is a celebration of Dota and the global community of players and fans who support it, providing a chance for everyone to come together and see it played at the highest possible level by the best teams in the world.

While the heart of The International is the community — everyone who makes a short film or a cosplay outfit or a T-shirt design, everyone who yells from the audience (or their couch) to cheer on their favorite team or hero — the matches they gather to watch are its core: When play begins, the focus is on the game itself and the players battling for victory.

Over the years, we've built a number of features into Dota to help celebrate these teams and players; unfortunately during that time we've seen those features increasingly being used not to showcase team or player identity, but rather to host advertisements. This year, to remove distracting elements and allow full focus on the game and the people playing it, we aren't going to have advertisements and sponsorships in-game at The International, including in team banners, base logos, and tags in player names.

We're only a few short weeks away from opening the curtain on this year's tournament. Whether you're meeting up in Denmark, or watching online, we'll see you soon.