posted by Abelle,
Bot TI needs no players, no teams, no managers and no costly LAN trappings. The newly announced event from Beyond the Summit will pit bots against bots, purely for our amusement. Which hero will come out on top?


Beyond the Summit are doing their best to keep us all entertained in between The International 2018 qualifiers and the main event nearly two months later. They've already announced that they'll be running a DOTA Summit in July, but many teams and players will be busy focusing on preparing for TI at that time. Therefore, an event was concieved that wouldn't disturb the pros from their valuable TI training time.

Here's how it all works - each "team" is made up of five Easy difficulty bots of the same hero. Each match sees the two groups of five run at each other and fight to the death. For an example, here's Crystal Maiden versus Lina.



Matches are Best-of-three, and the heroes level up from game to game. That means Game 1 has Level 5 bots with an Ironwood Branch each. Game 2 has Level 15 bots with a 10,000 gold budget and Game 3 are Level 25 bots with a 20,000 budget.

Skill and item builds will be based on popular builds determined with DOTABUFF, but skills and talents which will have no effect on the fight will not be used (eg. XP or gold per minute talents).

BTS broadcast a preview last night which included the clip above, but "real" matches from the bracket are planned to start today and run through mid-July. VODs will be posted here.

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