Dota 2 Esports News

Team Spirit has made it to the finals of The International 2026 after a decisive 2-0 victory over Team Yandex. After losing to Parivison, Spirit has travelled a long path in the lower bracket and will now face them again in the battle for the Aegis.

AG.AL has won the 2026 Esports World Cup Club Championship, finishing the 25-tournament season on 5,300 CC Points and claiming the $7,000,000 top prize. The Esports World Cup confirmed the result on social media, congratulating "@AGGlobalEsports on securing the Club Championship". The win denies Team Falcons a third consecutive title.

The tournament run for Nigma Galaxy is over. Boom Boys sends them packing in an impressive three game series. Boom didn't even break a sweat in their two victories, with very one sided wins.

Team Falcons went out with a bang at The International 2026. The defending champions got taken out by Team Liquid, after a strong start to their series.

After two successive defeats in the first round of the Playoffs, Team Falcons was eliminated and lost the opportunity to become the second back-to-back TI Champion organization after impressive performances from Nigma Galaxy and Team Liquid.

Before the Playoffs begin, let's take a quick look at the most popular heroes on the Group Stage of The International 2026 and which teams took best advantage of them.

The Esports Foundation has officially announced the postponement of the highly anticipated, inaugural Esports Nations Cup. Originally slated to debut in November 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the event has now been pushed back a full year to November 2027. This massive international tournament, which plans to host representatives from over 100 countries and territories, has paused its launch to ensure a stable environment for its players, partners, and fans.

nearly every hero has received at least a ban, if not shown up in a game at TI 2026. However, 15 heroes remain completely ignored, and in this list we will list which of these heroes we expect to show up.

The International 2026 Group Stage is over and only eight teams go forward to the Playoffs. Let's take a look at which teams fell along the way, how things unraveled on the Elimination Round and the schedule for the first round in the Playoffs.

The elimination stage of The International 2026 has concluded, and three regions were eliminated in a single day. South America, North America, and host region China join Southeast Asia as regions without a representative in the playoffs.

Valve has recently squashed MMR for Immortal players in Dota 2. After years of inflation, MMR is brought back down to meaningful numbers. The result is much shorter queue times and an easier grind to make it to the leaderboards.

The Swiss Format section of the Group Stage is over and now we have the Elimination Round as the last frontier between elimination or the Playoffs of The International 2026.

As if there was ever any doubt about it, Magnus Carlsen came into the Chess tournament at the Esports World Cup 2026 after nearly two months away from official competition and simply tore through the opposition. With back-to-back EWC titles under his belt, the Norwegian star continues to stack his claim as the greatest Chess player of all time.

Filipe "Astini" Ribeiro has been on a personal crusade against cheats in Dota 2 for a while and after Santiago "TaiLung" Agüero Gustavo was banned from PGL events, his effort was extended to the endemic match-fixing trend in South and North America.

The Grand Finals of the 2026 Esports World Cup's PUBG Mobile bracket had to be pushed back after a suspected outbreak of severe food poisoning swept through the competing rosters in Paris.

The second day of The International 2026 is over, and the day featured quite a few surprises. The tournament concluded the second and third stages of groups, with some teams solidifying themselves at either the top or bottom of the bracket.