January 17th, 20165compLexity Gaming have embarked on a TI6 bound journey and have been creating quite a stir in their new season together. ProxyPL talked to coL.Limmp about compLexity, the team house, regional differences and his goals for the future.
January 11th, 201655Garnes Vidaregåande Skule - a specialized public high school situated in Norway's utterly charming city of Bergen, the land of mountains and fjords - will take a dauntless step in August of 2016, when they will start teaching esports classes. They don't have everything figured out yet, as is normal, but they do know one thing for sure:...
January 4th, 20163David "LD" Gorman is an extremely busy person who is almost impossible to get a hold of nowadays. However, during the Christmas break, ProxyPL managed to find a gap in LD's tight schedule for an extensive interview about the Summits, BTS as a company, casting and being 3/5 of the way to a bathtub interview.
David Gorman - also known...
January 2nd, 20162Troels "syndereN" Nielsen - once a professional player and, in the past two years, arguably the best analytical commentator in Dota 2 - has returned to competitive gaming. He talked to ProxyPL about his new team, Steak Gaming, how he will treat casting and his other responsibilities, and his offbeat taste in team names.
December 18th, 201531By now you’ve read the patch notes and seen some of the changes, but 6.86 is a massive patch. We’re going to be finding new game interactions for weeks, if not months, but I wanted to first look at one of the most impactful changes: the new offlane Hard camp.
This camp exists by each team’s Secret Shop, both facing West (toward...
December 4th, 20150Dota 2 has been witness to some of the most remarkable wins and losses in 2015 - partly due to the "comeback mechanism" in patch 6.83 and partly due to the shift in team composition and new talent added to the professional player pool. Whatever the actual reason, the Dota has been thrilling, exciting and unpredictable.
The heart races...
December 2nd, 20151DotaBlast met Dota 2 statistician and panelist, Alan "Nahaz" Bester, for an interview, at The Frankfurt Major.
Alan Bester is a Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario, in Canada. He seems like one of those professors who can easily inspire students to stand on their desks in scholar rapture. His speech is learned,...
November 30th, 20151DotaBlast met Virtus.Pro's Sergey Alexandrovich "G" Bragin for an interview, one day after his team was eliminated from the Frankfurt Major. God touched on Virtus.Pro's elimination series and the team's reluctance to make roster changes and described his odyssey of self-realization as a Dota 2 player, at length.
Sergey Alexandrovich...
November 28th, 20151DotaBlast talked to Alexander "XBOCT" Dashkevich about his Natus Vincere bow-out, his plans to join an all-CIS team in the immediate future and his straightforward views on the current scene and the new players who have made it to the top.
November 11th, 20150No Logic Gaming have just qualified for the Game Show Studio LAN Finals. ProxyPL managed to catch their newest addition, Omar "Madara" Dabasas, for an interview a few days before that.
They talked about who he is outside of Dota 2, his time at London Conspiracy, why Golden Boys weren't as successful and the switch from Golden Boys to...