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The next Dota 2 Reddit community Captain's Mode tournament lands this Valentine's weekend

Ah, Valentine's Day. Whether its very mention conjures images of roses, chocolate, and hearts or a gush fest of crowded restaurants and overpriced teddy bears, there's no denying its arrival does herald a bunch of fun in-game events. The r/dota2 Discord community organisers team holds a monthly contest event, and the next one in store lands this coming Valentine's weekend, which means a bunch of teams battling it out in a Captain's Mode tournament.

As announced on the MOBA game's subreddit, the Valentine's iteration of the monthly tournament (which has been running for nearly two years) will see eight teams of five players take on a single-elimination, best-of-one bracket over a few hours on February 13. Each game will be played using Dota 2's Captain's Mode - the standard option used in competitive play. Players with at least 1000 MMR are welcome to apply, and players will get assigned to their team based on their MMR, with the captain doing each team's drafting having the highest on the team by default.

Prizes on offer include "Alliance 2019 Jerseys", Alliance being the event's title sponsor, with a "choice between Loda's or Alliance named (EU and UK shipping only - winners outside of these regions can claim a $10 Steam gift code)", some special roles on the relevant Discord server, and subreddit flairs.

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Dota 2 mod Lostland Commander is basically PvE Auto Chess, and it's bananas

Now that Teamfight Tactics has muscled its way to the top of the autobattler games pile, it's sometimes easy to forget that the genre began not all that long ago with a Dota 2 arcade mode. There's a new arcade mode out now called Lostland Commander that's making waves, and it borrows ideas from deckbuilders, Auto Chess, and others for a whole new game.

Some of the basics of Lostland Commander will be familiar if you've played Auto Chess or any of its variants. You'll recruit heroes to your bench and play them on a field, upgrading these characters by drawing duplicates from the random selection available to you each round. Instead of fighting head-to-head against other players, however, you'll be taking on increasingly powerful waves of monsters and bosses.

Monsters that escape from the field during a round power up the boss, and so you'll need to upgrade your heroes with gear and capitalise on synergies to make sure you've got as much power as possible on the field at any given time. This time out, though, you've also got a powerful captain at the head of the team, but you'll need to keep them protected because you'll lose the game if they burn through all three of their lives.

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