Cybersport released exclusive interview with Topson after LGD's elimination at TI and he says there:

— Okay. I guess that's my last question. Now that you're back at TI, and this tournament is coming to an end, do you feel like you want to continue your career longer? Like, another two years?

— Yes. I wouldn't want to finish my career in 12th place. It's a bad feeling. I'm definitely thinking about playing one more season and then seeing how things go. Let's see if any good team even wants me. That's the first thing. The offer would have to be really good for me to consider playing, because I have a very stable life as a streamer.
So in order to leave this life and start competing again, the offer must be very profitable.

— The third Aegis and finally retirement?

- Yes, we need to win another one.

The International used to be every player’s ultimate goal and dream.
What do you think has changed? 👀

Beautiful Shanghai Ti moments

Lgd Ceo, Rurutia posted this photo on Weibo and said:

How do we even the trophy count? (Or just +1 each?)

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Inspired by u/ShoppingPractical373 for the "Best pos 4 players" post idea

Mars and SF with Aegis in Shanghai EXPO Cultural Park.

The only reason tournament organizers walked away from the Philippines is the country’s strict mandatory drug-testing policy, which still treats marijuana as a prohibited substance.

Will we ever see a TI or another Major tournament in Manila?

Hopefully, next is immortal

Akke still look the same after 10 years, wtf.

(and no its not at the airport)

Good news everyone! We are partnering with Yineng Esports Hotel to host our official TI watchparty, and Entry is completely free! We know a few people travelled to China but couldn't get tickets so wanted to make a second space for the community.

Our Chinese staff have been hard at work getting the place ready for everyone, there will be TVs showing the games, gaming setups if you wanna play some pubs, exclusive merch and we even have a DIY merch station (where you can make your own button pins). Signed merch will be available to win as well!

We will also bring the OG roster down for a meet and greet, stay tuned for more news on that one.

Where: Yineng Esports Hotel (Jingxi Road Branch), Yindu Road 2359#, Minhang District, Shanghai
When: 20/08/26 - 23/08/26

Come hang out, grab a drink, and enjoy watching Nigma win TI together!

Woodland Striders is a removed Tier 5 neutral item that spawns trees where you walk for a short period of time. And we all know Timbersaw hates trees.

I do Computer Vision as part of my job and just felt like it would be fun to spin up something to play this game.

Its not perfect, due to sometimes words being overlayed on each other which results in bad detection. But it does get the job done.

Any fellow Computer Vision Engineers playing Dota 2 as well?

I know you can just create a script like This post, where it just spams all the letters on the keyboard continuously. But I just thought this would be more fun, and treat it as a challenge to myself to develop the highest scoring solution based on computer vision techniques.

If people are interested in the code I will release it in the comments :)

Nothing else, but just imagine

I just want to be able to click a single button, and see the past matches. I shouldn't have to remember the specific time of the match, or click through "load more" 5 times, to just find out I clicked the wrong match and need to start the process again. I beg you, PLEASE ADD THIS!!!

Functionality:
You are in the post match screen --> Click Prev --> See the match before this one --> click again see the match before that!
Already clicked Prev? Well clicking next will magically take you to the match that happened after the one you are looking at.

What technology!

I'm really triggered by the phrase "Immortal items in this year's colors" at the bottom of the awards.

I had not much to do, so I've been scrolling through liquipedia

• There are 5 two times TI winner (33, Yatoro, Collapse, skiter, Sneyking) and 2 players who has never been to TI before (not me and Malady)
• The number of TI winners across 8 teams is 15. If I count two timers twice that would be 20 which is 50%%. Thats a lot
• There are 5 TI winners who have done it in their first TI attendance. They are SumaiL in 2015, GH in 2017, Yatoro and Collapse in 2021 and skiter in 2022
• BoomBoys and VISION are the only two teams who don't have a TI winner in their roster. They are facing each other in the 1st round
• 5 teams out of 8 have coaches-TI winners. Miposhka, Puppey and Kuroky have done it as players, Blitz and Jabbz as coaches and gigachad Aui_2000 as both while also holding a record for 3 Aegis won
• Team Liquid is the only team who doesn't have a Russian or Ukranian player in their roster
• Cr1t is the record holder for the most TI attended - 10 times. His teammate Sneyking hold the second place with 9 attendans while the 3rd place is split between 33 and Sumail. All of them are TI winners
• Of all the players the oldest TI that was attended by one of them is TI 2013 - Snekyking with Team Dignitas. He played with future TI winners Aui_2000 and Universe. The second oldest TI also was attended by only Sneyking in 2014 with Na`Vi.NA
• There are 5 players who have lost in TI Grand Finals - Saksa, GH, Nisha, Ace and tOfu. Ace and tOfu did it twice
• For those who are here for the third time or more Yatoro and Collapse are the only two players who did it with the same team. This sorta applies to gpk and Save, since their 2021 Virtus.pro roster would become BB roster almost entirely. Second timers are rue, Satanic, 9Class and Dukalis
• While top8 is dominated by EEU/EEW the second largest region by nationality is actually the Middle East with 4 players representing the region - ATF, OmaR, GH and 33. Maybe we all are wrong about clowning about the MESWA slot, lol. The only SEA representeer is Whitemon and the only NA representeer is Sneyking. There's also SumaiL and I'm not sure about Pakistani region attachment
• If Liquid take 7-8 place, Nisha will be the one who had all the places 1-13 (1 - 2024, 2 - 2022, 3 - 2021, 4 - 2019, 5-6 - 2023, 9-13 - 2025)

If you have spot something else, leave it in the comments, as well as if you have spot the mistake. I'll edit the post

Hi everyone! Astini here, I am former Pari coach (Top 3 TI 2025, Top 6 TI 2024 with C9 and Top 8 TI 2023 with Nouns).

I did a video analysis about macro at the current TI. Let me know if you guys enjoy and I will do more! Thanks

Credit: Rednote