I started preparing this traditional piece right before TI12, but because of all the stuff happening I wasn’t able to finish it in time, so… I’ll just end up dumping all the graphics here. TI Teams Overview posts is something I do every year, after all. I would suggest you to check out Tsunami’s overview for this year though: https://howdoiplay.com/blog/2023/10/05/ti12-team-guide.html You can still check out my Pre-TI12 reports, as well as TI12 reports here: https://stats.spectral.gg/lrg2/?cat=ti12

So… Yeah, Steam Deck. Everyone and their dog already made a video or published a text guide on Steam Deck, and for me it took more than half a year to write one, w̵a̵s̵ ̵t̵o̵o̵ ̵b̵u̵s̵y̵ ̵p̵l̵a̵y̵i̵n̵g̵ ̵a̵r̵o̵u̵n̵d̵ ̵w̵i̵t̵h̵ ̵i̵t̵ ̵(̵a̵h̵e̵m̵)̵. На русском This blog post consists of two parts…

There were some changes in the works for a while now, and I rolled them out a couple of days ago. This is more of a byproduct of another thing I’ve been working on, but still interesting enough to discuss. And important note: the data was provided by STRATZ. There…

So um… yeah. It was a rough year. I kindof gave up with any sort of planning and roadmaps, since it’s hard to say anything. Also I kind of gave up on content, though I will get back to it in the future. What’s with 2022 plans “Play more dota, maybe stream” — Didn’t…

There were 8266 total matches played, 2860 of them are considered as Tier 1 events, while 3401 were played at the DPC and TI events. 17 matches were not analyzed. Radiant won 48% of games. The report started on 29th of November, 2021 with the first match of DPC China…

The International 2022 starts in a couple of hours. It’s perfect time to review the stats for TI11 teams, as well as go through the TI meta and take a quick look at TI Qualifiers stats. Русская версия For this year I prepared three separate Pre-TI11 profiles: Pre-TI11 Last Chance…

This was the question Decency asked on discord a while back. The idea is simple: find a method to evaluate how “diverse” and “balanced” meta is in a report (aka tournament or patch). But how to do that? And what it might show you? Russian version I was experimenting with…

I already did something like this a year ago, so it’s time to do it again, I guess. In this blog post I’ll quickly go through all the dota-related things I’ve done throughout the year, what changed and what plans I have for the next year. Unlike the previous “wrapped”…

Heya! Leamare is here. For those who wasn’t there before, aside from constantly updating spectral.gg and working with teams PuckChamp and REDACTED, I’m also creating/updating a series of in-game guides called “Nerds Hero Builds”. …