Russian Dota 2 streamer Sunlainv has had more than 60 alternate accounts banned, including those holding 16,000+ Sand King taunts he stockpiled after Malr1ne’s TI performance, expecting their price to rise.

Each of his accounts carried the same name to advertise his Telegram channel, hoping that climbing the fantasy ranked ladder would draw attention. About 10 of these accounts reached the 95th percentile, and together they got over five years of Dota Plus subscription time. Despite the bans, his main account(76561198293484977) and a lot of other alt accounts remains unaffected

banned accounts with thousands of taunts: 76561199159349228 76561199159251087

Honestly just hats off. The production was on point, the in-game event was really fun in my opinion, and on top of all that…

This year proved a massive prizepool is not needed to make teams care about TI. Yes, the chest probably should have been available before/during TI and contributed to prizepool. Make more chests this high quality and the prizepool can easily make it back to 10M plus I think, which is plenty. Maybe 5% of all sales all year go to the prizepool or something? Idk, not the point.

I’ve always been in the “trust the process” camp when it comes to Valve’s controversial vision for the game, and I think over the last year or so we have been proven right. Current dota is a much healthier game than it was 2016-2020, call me crazy. Crownfall was lit, TI was lit, can’t wait to see what’s next.

Sincerely, a kid who watched TI3 with his friends older brother 12 years ago.

TI hit different when she was in it

https://x.com/hieumayart/status/1968656410545119502

Had an idea for the walkers to feel more occult and fitting for a summoning. So I made a rough design for it

Thought these guys would be some fun guest characters that would fit well with the setting.

*jingle jingle*