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Dota 2 Short Film Contest
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After an unexpected hiatus, we are pleased to announce the return of the Dota 2 Short Film Contest -- and that we're now accepting submissions for this year's event. Filmmakers have until 3:00pm PDT on July 25, 2021 to submit their short film creations of 90 seconds or less to the Dota 2 Steam Workshop to be eligible for consideration.
As before, we invite all fans to visit the Workshop to participate in the voting and discussion process to help us select the best entries to be showcased as part of The International 10 broadcast. Upon review of the Workshop ratings and discussions, Valve will nominate the top entries to be featured in the Dota client for a final voting process by the community to determine the winners.
Each finalist that places in the top ten will be guaranteed to win $500, and the top three selections will reap prizes of $25,000, $10,000, and $5,000 in recognition of their contributions to the Dota community.
Check out the Dota 2 Short Film Contest site for more information and guidelines on the submission process. And be sure to stop by the Workshop page regularly to help review the submissions you would like to see showcased at The International 10, live from Stockholm in August.
After an unexpected hiatus, we are pleased to announce the return of the Dota 2 Short Film Contest -- and that we're now accepting submissions for this year's event. Filmmakers have until 3:00pm PDT on July 25, 2021 to submit their short film creations of 90 seconds or less to the Dota 2 Steam Workshop to be eligible for consideration.
As before, we invite all fans to visit the Workshop to participate in the voting and discussion process to help us select the best entries to be showcased as part of The International 10 broadcast. Upon review of the Workshop ratings and discussions, Valve will nominate the top entries to be featured in the Dota client for a final voting process by the community to determine the winners.
Each finalist that places in the top ten will be guaranteed to win $500, and the top three selections will reap prizes of $25,000, $10,000, and $5,000 in recognition of their contributions to the Dota community.
Check out the Dota 2 Short Film Contest site for more information and guidelines on the submission process. And be sure to stop by the Workshop page regularly to help review the submissions you would like to see showcased at The International 10, live from Stockholm in August.
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The European Dota 2 scene has been up in arms after one Dota Pro Circuit team made use of a new rule change to allow its coach to talk to players during games - something that is banned in almost all other professional Dota 2 competitions.
The team in question is Alliance, one of the eight teams competing in the DreamLeague Season 15 Dota Pro Circuit competition which is organised by DreamHack and ESL. After footage of Alliance's games last week were shown in a vlog, viewers noticed coach Peter 'ppd' Dager giving in-game callouts to his players. This is against the rules in all other major Dota 2 tournaments, with coaches only allowed to interact with their players during breaks and the draft.
However, a change to the rulebook by the tournament organisers had flown under the radar of most teams, and it transpires that DreamLeague coaches were now permitted to communicate with their players during a match. The rule change was reportedly emailed out to team managers, according to OG CEO Juan Luna, who has been critical of Alliance for exploiting the change.
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