The International invites DK

posted by Jaywalker, 1 year ago

It is groundbreaking news.

DK is the first team to be invited for The International held in Seattle this year.

The team has received the first invitation from Valve to participate in the prestigious Dota 2 LAN to be held in Seattle this year. Although there is no official confirmation from Valve, DK has published photos of their invitation letters and announcing this news via their official Tencent Weibo.

Super, Zippo, LongDD, BurNing and rOtk with their invitations

The International invitation letters for DK

We have managed to contact BurNing and he gave us the following humble statement:

When we received the invitation naturally we felt excited and exhilarated. But after settling down, we know we shouldn't be happy this early. Getting a Visa is no easy task, our performance are of no competition to the top teams in Dota 2 right now. We will increase our efforts to train and improve our skills.

It is an exciting moment as all teams will be nervously anticipating an invite and hoping to participate in the event that had featured the prize pool of $ 1.6 million. It is unknown if more teams have received their invitations, stay tuned as joinDOTA bring you updates of more teams getting one of the coveted slots.

DK team roster:

Zhilei 'BurNing' Xu

Xiang 'LongDD' Huang

Xiong 'Zippo' Zhou

Fan 'rOtk' Bai

Junhao 'Super' Xie

Sources: DK official Tencent Weibo

#51

Overdos3 wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:17 CEST:

Super just woke up

#52

Pyro.. wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:20 CEST:

SimplyStronk schrieb:

MossKing schrieb:
What a joke not giving Na'Vi the first invite

implying they don't have an invite.
Ever thought about them having an invite already, just not showing off?

can't you read?
DK is the first team to be invited for The International held in Seattle this year(period)

#53

Tornado.20 wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:22 CEST:

plz

#54

chiashijie wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:22 CEST:

wow thats fast...

#55

strachi wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:23 CEST:

ZOOM IMAGE AND TRY TO READ DATE IF IT IS WRTTEN

#56

faststronghorse wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:25 CEST:

Orange is stable too! :D

#57

anima1 wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:35 CEST:

DAAAAAAAMN!YEAAAAAAAAHHHH

#58

Kyaru wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:35 CEST:

Haunt! schrieb:
OMG THOSE PLASTIC SEAL STAMPS! SO HARDCORE!

Ofc... cause important letters were sealed with plastic since ages!

#59

tw1sted wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:39 CEST:

dk top 1 world

#60

angrychief wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:44 CEST:

Mooob schrieb:
Navi deserved it more!

Cool your jets fan boy. It says that this is unofficial so for we know Na'vi was sent invitations at the same time and have not received them or have not broadcast that they have received them. This is an announcement from DK, not from Valve....

#61

Andi_ wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:45 CEST:

TheHypnoToad schrieb:
so they just started playing dota 2 and are the first to recieve the invitation? kk, makes sense

Err no, DK has been playing Dota 2 for quite some time now (they were in the first premier league!) but obviously not as long as the other top teams like Na`Vi.

Looking foward to see the China teams play and hope Ehome also get an invite as I feel they are the better team atm.

#62

Zhilo wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:46 CEST:

Date pls! I can't wait, I need a date for countdown!

#63

Nave wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:55 CEST:

ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT"SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
AAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEE!!!

I'M GONNA DIE!

#64

O_xD wrote at 09.05.2012, 13:58 CEST:

nitpick: It should be either $1 million or 1 million dollars, not $1 million dollars

#65

XykE wrote at 09.05.2012, 14:00 CEST:

Mooob schrieb:
People need to realise that to enter america its like trying to enter a warzone, their security is sick. They will ask you the most retarded questions and will twists the words in everyway trying to make you look guilty so you will crack or to give them a reason to hold you.

weird thing is that when i went to the US it wasn't that bad but when i was coming back to australia it was =\ i think australia has tougher security but maybe thats just my experience

#66

DiGodKolya wrote at 09.05.2012, 14:03 CEST:

ehome should have gotten the first invitation, IMHO.
not that it matters, cant wait anyhow

#67

Notor wrote at 09.05.2012, 14:05 CEST:

The Visa issue is likely more complex because they aren't travelling to America as simple tourists, they are going to be competing for prize money. They will likely need some kind of work visa that is somewhat time consuming to obtain. Given the time frame of the invites, the International 2 looks like its probably going to go down sometime in August. This bodes well for a Christmas release of Dota 2, as well as the fact that most of the heroes will be imported by then.

#68

redefhist wrote at 09.05.2012, 14:06 CEST:

DiGodKolya schrieb:
ehome should have gotten the first invitation, IMHO.
not that it matters, cant wait anyhow

Maybe cos stable teams are given priority?

#69

daemonu wrote at 09.05.2012, 14:13 CEST:

Awesome! DK time to shift efforts to Dota 2 :D

#70

echsor wrote at 09.05.2012, 14:19 CEST:

what a pitty that the international isn't in colone again !! it was amazing ! hope there is a dota 2 tournament aswell

#71

JTT wrote at 09.05.2012, 14:22 CEST:

TI2 will be even better than TI1...Although the outcome will be most likely the same other participants will fight to the last blood for places 2-15 (1st is ofc reserved even if it pains me to say it and you obviously are not fighting for the 16th. )