The Defense, The Defense 2


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The Defense 2
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Online
Start Date 21 Jun. 2012
End Date 12 Aug. 2012
Teams 24
Version 6.74 Version 6.74(Full list) Nerfed Ember Spirit. Buffed most other heroes. Added Spiked Carapace. Added Aghanim s Scepter: Ogre Magi Balanced items. Release Date Dota 2:2012-03-15 DotA:2012-03-09  ← 6.73c6.74b →  Contents 1 General 2 Heroes 3 Items
Prize Pool ⃢₂ⅹ10,000 EUR
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The Defense
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The Defense is the most prestigious Dota 2 online tournament held by joinDOTA, powered by Razer & BenQ. Featuring 20 hand-selected world-class teams and four community wildcard winners $10,000 prize money await only the toughest and most experienced of contestants on their way to the top.
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TobiWanKenobi Play “They call me Tiny.” This article is a stub. As such, it is not complete. You can help Dota 2 Wiki by expanding it. TobiWanKenobi Background Information Name: Toby Dawson Date of birth: 24 Jul dota2
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syndereN syndereN Background Information Name: Troels Lyngholt Nielsen Date of birth: 24 Dec 1989 (age 27) Country: Denmark Team: Crescendo Role: Support, Offlaner, Captain Signature Heroes: Links DOTABUFF: 4281729 Twitch: synderen Facebook: syndereNDota Twitter: syndereNdota History DotA: dota2
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EpiCommentary
Christian Czech
Origin: Germany Germany
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VeRsuta
Aren Zarubyan
Origin: Russia Russia
Language: Russia Russian
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DMX DMX Background Information Name: DMX Country: France Commentating language: French Organization: Eclypsia Gaming Links DMX, more famously known as Dach&Max, is a french shoutcasting team consisting of 3 crazy bastards: a handsome young man, a dota2
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Group A

Team Pld W L Pts
Germany Mousesports 5 4 1 12
Ukraine Darer Entertainment 5 4 1 12
United States Evil Geniuses 5 3 2 9
Germany We haz Asian 5 2 3 6
Sweden Team Infused 5 2 3 6
Russia zNation 5 0 5 0
2012-6-22 EG Evil Geniuses United States Created: 1999 - Organization founding 2011-10-24 - Dota 2 division Team Information Captain: Andreas Franck "Cr1t-" Nielsen Coach(es): Clinton "Fear" Loomis Avery "SVG" Silverman Manager(s): William "ReaverXai" Burden Phillip "Tallgeese" Aram dota2 United States > Sweden Infs Team Infused United Kingdom Created: Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: http://www.team-infused.net Team Infused (Infs) is a British gaming organization formed in 2005. Contents 1 History 2 Current Roster 3 Achievements 3.1 Dota 2 4 dota2

2012-6-23 Infs Team Infused United Kingdom Created: Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: http://www.team-infused.net Team Infused (Infs) is a British gaming organization formed in 2005. Contents 1 History 2 Current Roster 3 Achievements 3.1 Dota 2 4 dota2 Sweden > Russia zNation

2012-6-24 WhA Germany United States EG Evil Geniuses United States Created: 1999 - Organization founding 2011-10-24 - Dota 2 division Team Information Captain: Andreas Franck "Cr1t-" Nielsen Coach(es): Clinton "Fear" Loomis Avery "SVG" Silverman Manager(s): William "ReaverXai" Burden Phillip "Tallgeese" Aram dota2

2012-6-26 mouz mousesports Germany Created: 2011-12-05 Team Information Captain: Giorgos "SsaSpartan" Giannakopoulos Coach(es): Manager(s): Phillip Aram Sponsor(s): BenQ Sennheiser Fanobet Dr Pepper Links Website: mousesports.com Facebook: mousesports Twitter: mousesports datdota: 26 DOTABUFF: 26 qojqva, paS, Black^, FATA-, dota2 Germany > Russia zNation

2012-6-26 WhA Germany Sweden Infs Team Infused United Kingdom Created: Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: http://www.team-infused.net Team Infused (Infs) is a British gaming organization formed in 2005. Contents 1 History 2 Current Roster 3 Achievements 3.1 Dota 2 4 dota2

2012-6-28 Darer Darer Ukraine Created: 2012-02-17 Disbanded: 2013-01-01 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Manager(s): Radomir "Darer" Stanev Links Website: Darer Entertainment (Darer) is a company from Gibraltar aimed at creating a global gaming community. Contents 1 History 2 dota2 Ukraine > Sweden Infs Team Infused United Kingdom Created: Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: http://www.team-infused.net Team Infused (Infs) is a British gaming organization formed in 2005. Contents 1 History 2 Current Roster 3 Achievements 3.1 Dota 2 4 dota2

2012-6-28 zNation Russia United States EG Evil Geniuses United States Created: 1999 - Organization founding 2011-10-24 - Dota 2 division Team Information Captain: Andreas Franck "Cr1t-" Nielsen Coach(es): Clinton "Fear" Loomis Avery "SVG" Silverman Manager(s): William "ReaverXai" Burden Phillip "Tallgeese" Aram dota2

2012-6-29 mouz mousesports Germany Created: 2011-12-05 Team Information Captain: Giorgos "SsaSpartan" Giannakopoulos Coach(es): Manager(s): Phillip Aram Sponsor(s): BenQ Sennheiser Fanobet Dr Pepper Links Website: mousesports.com Facebook: mousesports Twitter: mousesports datdota: 26 DOTABUFF: 26 qojqva, paS, Black^, FATA-, dota2 Germany > Sweden Infs Team Infused United Kingdom Created: Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Links Website: http://www.team-infused.net Team Infused (Infs) is a British gaming organization formed in 2005. Contents 1 History 2 Current Roster 3 Achievements 3.1 Dota 2 4 dota2

2012-6-30 mouz mousesports Germany Created: 2011-12-05 Team Information Captain: Giorgos "SsaSpartan" Giannakopoulos Coach(es): Manager(s): Phillip Aram Sponsor(s): BenQ Sennheiser Fanobet Dr Pepper Links Website: mousesports.com Facebook: mousesports Twitter: mousesports datdota: 26 DOTABUFF: 26 qojqva, paS, Black^, FATA-, dota2 Germany Ukraine Darer Darer Ukraine Created: 2012-02-17 Disbanded: 2013-01-01 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Manager(s): Radomir "Darer" Stanev Links Website: Darer Entertainment (Darer) is a company from Gibraltar aimed at creating a global gaming community. Contents 1 History 2 dota2

2012-7-2 WhA Germany > Ukraine Darer Darer Ukraine Created: 2012-02-17 Disbanded: 2013-01-01 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Manager(s): Radomir "Darer" Stanev Links Website: Darer Entertainment (Darer) is a company from Gibraltar aimed at creating a global gaming community. Contents 1 History 2 dota2

2012-7-3 WhA Germany > Russia zNation

2012-7-4 Darer Darer Ukraine Created: 2012-02-17 Disbanded: 2013-01-01 Team Information Captain: Coach(es): Manager(s): Radomir "Darer" Stanev Links Website: Darer Entertainment (Darer) is a company from Gibraltar aimed at creating a global gaming community. Contents 1 History 2 dota2 Ukraine > Russia zNation

2012-7-5 mouz mousesports Germany Created: 2011-12-05 Team Information Captain: Giorgos "SsaSpartan" Giannakopoulos Coach(es): Manager(s): Phillip Aram Sponsor(s): BenQ Sennheiser Fanobet Dr Pepper Links Website: mousesports.com Facebook: mousesports Twitter: mousesports datdota: 26 DOTABUFF: 26 qojqva, paS, Black^, FATA-, dota2 Germany > Germany WhA

2012-7-8 EG Evil Geniuses United States Created: 1999 - Organization founding 2011-10-24 - Dota 2 division Team Information Captain: Andreas Franck "Cr1t-" Nielsen Coach(es): Clinton "Fear" Loomis Avery "SVG" Silverman Manager(s): William "ReaverXai" Burden Phillip "Tallgeese" Aram dota2 United States Germany

Overview

The Defense 2 is joinDOTA`s second league style tournament. It is the first tournament featured by VALVe to be viewable on the Dota 2 game client itself.

Prizepool

A total of €10,000 is split among the teams as seen below:

Place $ USD €₠₠EUR Team
1st $7,374.63 €₠6,000 compLexity Gaming
2nd $3,072.76 €₠2,000 mousesports
3rd $1,843.65 €₠1,500 Counter Logic Gaming
4th - - Evil Geniuses
5th-6th - - Quantic Gaming
PotM Bottom
7th-8th - - Storm Games Clan
Natus Vincere
9th-12th - - Mortal Teamwork
Moscow Five
We haz Asian
Darer
13th-16th - - Absolute Legends
Power Rangers
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Team Empire
17th-24th - - Team Infused
zNation
4 Friends + Chrillee
Hydra
Fnatic.EU
NEXT.kz
HelloMoto
Copenhagen Wolves

Converted USD prizes are based on the currency exchange rate (taken from xe.com) on August 12, 2012: 1 EUR = 1.2291052114 USD.

Format

  • Qualifying Tournament
    • Single-elimination Bracket until the Ro16.
    • Double-elimination Bracket starting from the Ro16.
    • All matches are played in a best of one series.
    • Top 4 teams qualifies for the group stage.
  • Group Stage
    • 20 invited teams and 4 qualified teams are seeded into Group Play.
    • The 24 teams get divided into four groups of six.
    • Every team plays one game against each of the five opponents in its group.
    • The top four teams of each group advances to the playoffs.
    • All matches are played in a best of one series.
    • Tiebreaks are determined through a time rating method.
      • Wins give negative times for the team while losses gives positive times.
      • A team with a higher positive time rating is ranked higher when multiple teams have the same record.
  • Playoffs
    • The 16 teams are divided into upper- and lower bracket.
    • The top 2 teams from each group are seeded into the upper bracket.
    • The 3rd and 4th teams from each group are seeded into the lower bracket.
    • All matches except the finals are played in a best of three series.
    • The Grand Final is played in a best of five series.

Invited Teams

Natus Vincere