In just a few short months, the finest Dota teams in the world will gather in Shanghai to battle for the Aegis of Champions in front of thousands of cheering fans. We've announced the official team invitations, and now we'd like to extend one to you. If you want to be one of those fans cheering live at the arena, it's time to get ready: ticket sales for The International 2026 kick off on June 10th at 2pm China Standard Time.

The in-arena action runs from August 20 - 23 at the SPD Bank Oriental Sports Center, with two ticket options available: single-day tickets for any day, or two-day bundles covering Thursday/Friday and Saturday/Sunday. All seating this year will be assigned, with no General Admission options available.

Ticket prices vary based on day and section, so check out the full chart of options below:



There are two purchase paths this year: one for fans purchasing domestically within China, and another for purchasing internationally.

China Domestic Sales
Chinese domestic ticket sales will be available through Damai or the Perfect World app, and will require a Chinese ID to complete any sale.

Once ticket sales begin on June 10th at 2pm (China Standard Time), the first twenty minutes will serve as a priority purchase period for domestic tickets. During this period, purchases are restricted to active Dota players in China who have played at least ten games in within the last six months. (To be eligible for priority purchase, please verify your account status in advance by the end of Wednesday, June 3, 2026.)

From 2:30pm (CST) onward, domestic tickets will be available for purchase to all Chinese customers.

International Sales
For fans purchasing outside of China, ticket sales will commence on June 10th at 2:30pm (CST) via Trip.com.

FAQ

How does seating work?
Tickets are purchased for a specific seating region (see chart above). After your purchase, you will be assigned a specific seat in the region you selected. All seats are assigned and reserved. There are no general admission tickets or seats.

What is the ticket transfer policy?
Tickets cannot be transferred, gifted, or resold. Tickets can only be used by the names for which they were purchased.

What do I need to purchase tickets internationally?
Trip.com requires an account and a valid passport for international ticket purchases. You can create your account and submit attendee documentation before tickets go on sale.

Can I purchase tickets for my group?
Yes, but note that the ticketing platforms limit each individual account to a maximum of two tickets per day. Multiple transactions may be required depending on the size of your group and how many days you wish to attend. As noted above, each attendee/ticket holder must have proper identification in order to complete the checkout process.

Do I need to bring anything else besides my tickets to enter the event?
Event entrance requires a valid photo ID matching the name on the ticket.

What is the ticket refund policy?
For China domestic ticket sales, please see the Damai refund policy. For international ticket sales, please see the Trip.com refund policy.

Throughout the year, Dota teams around the world battle to prove themselves worthy of direct invitation to The International — and a chance to compete for the Aegis of Champions on the world's biggest stage. Teams that secure invites can begin to focus on their final preparations, while the remaining contenders face one last chance to fight their way in.

Direct Invites
With less than three months until we raise the curtains on the big show, we’re excited to extend these seven teams invitations to Shanghai, China to compete in The International 2026:

• Aurora Gaming
  
  Egor "Nightfall" Grigorenko
  Rafli "Mikoto" Fathur Rahman
  Wei Shen "Ws`" Chung
  Myroslav "Mira" Kolpakov
  Oleh "kaori" Medvedok
  
  
  
• BoomBoys
  
  Ilia "Kiritych~" Ulianov
  Danil "gpk~" Skutin
  Matvei "MieRo`" Vasiunin
  Vitalie "Save-" Melnic
  Vladislav "Kataomi`" Semenov
  
  
  
• Team Falcons
  
  Oliver "Skiter" Lepko
  Stanislav "Malr1ne" Potorak
  Ammar "ATF" Alassaf
  Andreas "Cr1t-" Nielsen
  Jingjun "Sneyking" Wu
  
  
  
• Team Liquid
  
  Michael "m1CKe" Vu
  Michał "Nisha" Jankowski
  Marcus "Ace" Christensen
  Samuel "Boxi" Svahn
  Erik "tOfu" Engel
  
  
  
• Tundra Esports
  
  Ivan "Pure" Moskalenko
  Bozhidar "bzm" Bogdanov
  Neta "33" Shapira
  Matthew "Ari" Walker
  Matthew "Whitemon" Filemon
  
  
  
• Xtreme Gaming
  
  Chunyu "Ame" Wang
  Jin Xiang "NothingToSay" Cheng
  Jing "Xxs" Lin
  Linsen "fy" Xu
  Jian Wei "xNova" Yap
  
  
  
• Team Yandex
  
  Alimzhan "医者watson" Islambekov
  Ilya "CHIRA_JUNIOR" Chirtsov
  Dmitrii "DM" Dorokhin
  Martin "Saksa" Sazdov
  Arman "Malady" Orazbayev
  
  

Regional Qualifiers
The seven teams above have already earned invitations, which means there are still nine slots available at TI, just waiting for the squads that can survive the crucible of Regional Qualifiers. This year, we've merged the Eastern and Western Europe qualifiers into one single European qualifier with four advancement slots. Check out the full schedule below.

• China, June 15-18 (2 slots)
  
  Vici Gaming
  Roar Gaming
  Yakutou Brothers
  Team Resilience
  (+4 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  
  
• South America, June 15-19 (1 slot)
  
  LGD Gaming
  PlayTime
  Estar Backs
  Red Hot Chili Pibble
  Amaru Gaming
  Hokori
  (+4 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  
  
• Southeast Asia, June 19-23 (1 slot)
  
  REKONIX
  OG
  Execration
  Team Nemesis
  GLYPH
  (+5 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  
  
• Europe, June 21-28 (4 slots)
  
  TEAM VISION
  Team Spirit
  MOUZ
  Natus Vincere
  Nigma Galaxy
  Virtus.pro
  enjoy
  Power Rangers
  (+8 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  
  
• North America, June 24-26 (1 slot)
  
  GamerLegion
  (+3 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  

Once qualifiers wrap up on June 28, we'll have the full tournament field decided, and the next stop is Shanghai. Group Stage kicks off August 13 - 16 with a three-day, five-round Swiss bracket, followed by five elimination matches played on Sunday. The eight remaining teams bring the competition into the arena August 20 - 23, where the Aegis of Champions awaits.

Patch 7.41c is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.

In addition, over the last few days we've addressed the following issues:

• Fixed illusions not duplicating the correct level of neutral item enchantment
  
• Fixed Bloodstone's Bloodpact having a superfluous stack counter
  
• Fixed Conjurer's Catalyst getting into a state where it never triggers
  
• Fixed Consecrated Wraps having varying sell cost based on how many charges are active
  
• Fixed Crella's Crozier Rite of Rumusque healing for more than intended when redirecting heal from targets with other sources of health restoration
  
• Fixed Crella's Crozier not working on health regeneration
  
• Fixed Crella's Crozier working on overheals
  
• Fixed Jidi Pollen Bag's tooltip overstating the damage it deals
  
• Fixed Refresher Shard's mana cost not showing on the item icon
  
• Fixed Refresher Orb and Refresher Shard sometimes not sharing a cooldown
  
• Fixed Abaddon's Withering Mist creating particles when a unit dies
  
• Fixed Ancient Apparition's Chilling Touch consuming more mana when triggering Specialist's Array or Hydra's Breath.
  
• Fixed Ancient Apparition's Bone Chill with Aghanim's Scepter not updating to the Scepter values until the Bone Chill per hero level interval was achieved
  
• Fixed Axe's Battle Hunger with Level 10 Talent sometimes permanently granting Axe bonus movement speed
  
• Fixed Bristleback being able to use Quill Spray while channeling if it is on Autocast
  
• Fixed Centaur Warrunner's Hoof Stomp not being treated as an ability cast by other abilities (Pugna's Nether Ward, Silencer's Last Word, etc.)
  
• Fixed Chaos Knight's innate not being duplicated to his illusions
  
• Fixed Clinkz losing health when tread swapping while having bonus health from Death Pact
  
• Fixed Clockwerk's allies sometimes getting stuck inside his cogs
  
• Fixed Dark Willow's Bedlam displaying a cast range
  
• Fixed Dragon Knight gaining flying movement with Aghanim's Scepter before level 4 Dragon Form
  
• Fixed Earth Spirit's Enchant Remnant not being affected by cooldown reduction when cast on a stone remnant.
  
• Fixed Enigma's Eidolons not having +-4 damage spread
  
• Fixed Kazurai Katana being affected by status resistance
  
• Fixed some instances where Kazurai Katana could unexpectedly fail
  
• Fixed Kunkka's Admiral's Rum having the incorrect hangover duration when applied from Kunkka's Ghostship
  
• Fixed Lich's Frost Shield healing Lich's Ice Spire past its max health
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear counting as a Creep when attacking Undying's Tombstone
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Inscribed Gem "Entangling Claws Duration" not tracking properly
  
• Fixed Enchanter's Bauble not working on Lone Druid's Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear being able to move items to stash while dead by manually dragging items into the stash
  
• Fixed Mars trying to block the ground if targeting his own position with Bulwark
  
• Fixed Mars God's Rebuke not having its targeting reticule match the actual area of effect
  
• Fixed Meepo clones not properly syncing cooldown of multiple copies of the same item
  
• Fixed Meepo clones being able to use Megameepo
  
• Fixed Meepo's Divided We Stand being able to clone Roshan's Banner
  
• Fixed Mirana's Celestial Quiver not appearing in damage breakdowns or appearing to update its damage in regards to spell amplification
  
• Fixed being able to track Monkey King through Changing of the Guard with pings or click commands.
  
• Fixed Muerta's Spectral Slug debuff incorrectly visually appearing to be applying ethereal to debuff immune heroes when they are not ethereal
  
• Fixed Muerta's Supernatural stacks lost upon Death rounding up instead of down
  
• Fixed Outworld Destroyer's Astral Imprisonment hiding a debuff immune hero's health bar
  
• Fixed Phoenix's Dying Light not having increased radius with certain AoE increasing items
  
• Fixed Rubick not gaining Faceless Void's Reverse Time Walk even when he have scepter
  
• Fix Slark's Shadow Dance not displaying the duration of the buff in the buff bar
  
• Fixed Sniper's Headshot not slowing while Take Aim is active
  
• Fixed Sven's Warcry showing a "Warcry Aura" on nearby allies that doesn't do anything when he has Aghanim's Shard
  
• Fixed crash when Tidehunter eats a fish with a completely full inventory
  
• Fix Tidehunter's Leviathan's Catch not working if Tidehunter ate a fish while stunned.
  
• Fixed heroes gaining health after Tinker's laser with Aghanim's Scepter expires
  
• Fixed Treant Protector being able to maintain Nature's Guise invisibility when casting Nature's Guise and leaving the trees in the same frame
  
• (Ability Draft) Fixed Undying being able to refresh Ceaseless Dirge with Tinker's Rearm
  
• Fixed Ursa's Enrage visual effects lingering longer than the ability duration
  
• Fixed Venomancer's Snakebite dealing damage multiple times on triggered attacks
  
• Fixed Winter Wyvern's Winter's Curse causing targets with Chipped Vest to damage Winter Wyvern during the curse
  
• Fixed Winter Wyvern's Winter's Curse causing all Blade Mails to stop working during the duration of the cast
  
• Fixed Winter Wyvern's Winter's Curse not increasing its duration when enemy illusions enter the area or an enemy entered the curse very close to the time it was created
  
• Fixed being able to sometimes use some items during Winter Wyvern's Winter's Curse if the duration was extended
  
• Fixed Winter's Curse status labels not updating appropriately if the duration was extended
  
• Fixed Zeus's Nimbus visually showing the incorrect number of pips for how many hero hits it takes to destroy.
  
• Fixed Progressive Refinement not working for SFM
  

The International is getting closer. After many years, Dota's ultimate proving ground is returning to China and returning to August, which is now just a few short months away.

In preparation, we've updated the registration process for any teams interested in participating in The International this year.

All interested teams must sign up through the Dota pro team registration site. A manager must first register their team, and then each of the players must join individually. As part of team registration, a team representative must agree with the team participation agreement for this year's event. This agreement requires that teams and players abide by certain rules, including treating their players fairly and equally, and can be viewed during the registration process, as well as here.

Teams must complete the registration process by 2pm PDT on Monday, May 18th to be eligible for a direct invitation to The International or any Regional Qualifier.

We'll be back later this month with more details, including team invitations, qualifier details, and information on ticket sales. The final push to reach Dota's biggest stage is about to begin.

Patch 7.41b is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.

Over the past few days we've addressed the following issues:

• Fixed Meepo being able to create potions (and other stackable, nonshareable items)
  
• Fixed Meepo clones not benefitting Abyssal Blade or Disperser
  
• Fixed Meepo and Divine Rapier interaction
  
• Fixed Meepo and Radiance interaction
  
• Fixed Meepo deleting his Hand of Midas when using the last charge on a clone
  
• Fixed Megameepo always having full Divided We Stand penalties
  
• Fixed Meepo being able to duplicate Dusts of Appearance by buying a Dust of Appearance on their courier, dropping that dust on the ground, picking that dust up by Meepo, right clicking on the single Dust of Apperance and sending it to the stash, repeating that process 6 times to fill the stash with Dusts of Appearance, buying multiple Dusts of Appearance on the courier, dropping that stack on the ground, picking it up, and then using Dust of Appearance on a Meepo clone.
  
• Fixed Spirit Breaker's Greater Bash not being purgable when Spirit Breaker has Aghanim's Scepter
  
• Fixed Spirit Breaker's Aghanim's Scepter repeatedly bashing units more than intended.
  
• Fixed Tiny's Tree Volley doing more damage than intended when thrown trees are hitting multiple units.
  
• Fixed Nyx Assassin's Mind Flare not always triggering Phylactery/Khanda on a target if the initial target had a Linken's Sphere
  
• Fixed Chaos Knight being able to get the Hulking enchantment from his innate ability
  
• Fixed crash when spreading Enchantress' Little Friends debuff with Venomancer's Noxious Plague
  
• Fixed crash when casting Nyx Assassin's Unburrow
  
• Fixed Desolator adding its particle effect to attacks when it actually won't apply.
  
• Fixed Bristleback's Prickly not using the correct values as Bristleback levels up
  
• Fixed Kunkka's Ghost Ship not applying Admiral's Rum when stolen by Rubick
  
• Fixed Bane's Fiend's Grip not interacting with Linken's Sphere and Lotus Orb correctly when both are on the cast target
  
• Fixed Invoker's Alacrity talent giving more damage and attack speed than intended
  
• Fixed Viper's Corrosive Skin Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade not applying the additional magic resistance correctly
  
• Fixed Shadow Shaman's Urnaconda not being bindable in the settings
  
• Fixed Windranger's Focus Fire not triggering Specialist Array and Hydra's Breath as frequently as they should when moving around.
  
• Fixed Arc Warden's Tempest Double starting with Mjollnir on cooldown if Arc Warden's Mjollnir was on cooldown.
  
• Primal Beast's high priority selection box has been slightly decreased in size
  
• Fixed Marci's Rebound stunning targets in a larger radius than intended when taking the target ally with her
  
• Fixed Elder Titan's Astral Spirit movement speed updating with Elder Titan's own movement speed
  
• Fixed a large visual artifact appearing when exporting a video from a replay if the client is set to the "Fastest" rendering settings and the video export uses the "High Quality Rendering" setting
  

Patch 7.41a is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.

In addition, over the last few days we've addressed the following issues:

• Fixed a number of miscellaneous client and server crashes
  
• Option for displaying Hero Facet Names above health bar has been removed
  
• Spectator options and hotkey settings for Facets have been removed
  
• Fixed incorrect notification message when messaging who got gold for an assist
  
• Fixed high amounts of incoming heal amplification not stacking correctly with high amounts of health restoration
  
• Fixed a spot near the Dire fountain that could be teleported to but not exited from without cutting trees
  
• Fixed Conjurer's Catalyst reacting to damage that is reacting to damage from Conjurer's Catalyst
  
• Fixed Mage Slayer being mitigated by innate physical block on melee heroes
  
• Fixed Shiva's Guard not piercing debuff immunity
  
• Fixed Anti-Mage's scepter bonuses for Mana Break Max Mana Burned sometimes not being applied
  
• Fixed Arc Warden's Tempest Double receiving copies of foraged items
  
• Fixed Bloodseeker's Blood Rite dealing more damage than intended
  
• Fixed Bloodseeker Aghanim's Shard not piercing BKB
  
• Fixed Chaos Knight being able to get the Nimble enchantment
  
• Fixed bad interaction between Granite Golem and Chen's Holy Persuasion causing creeps to have escalating amounts of HP
  
• Fixed Chen's Holy Persuasion not having a reduced cooldown when cast on a persuaded creep
  
• Fixed Chen's Holy Persuasion lowering the Zealot's HP in some scenarios
  
• Fixed Chen unsummoning a Zealot causing it to not respawn until Chen died
  
• Fixed Chen's Zealots sometimes dying when using Holy Persuasion
  
• Fixed Dragon Knight applying Wyrm's Wrath damage twice in Dragon Form
  
• Fixed Elder Dragon Form frost breath not piercing debuff immunity
  
• Fixed Drow Ranger's Marksmanship triggering on Specialist's Array or Hydra's Breath attacks
  
• Fixed Elder Titan's Move Spirit ability not updating its keybinding when set in the settings
  
• Fixed Elder Titan Split Earth being cast in the wrong direction if the move spirit command was issued before the Split Earth went off
  
• Fixed Grimstroke's Dark Portrait Illusions not having 95% magic resistance
  
• Fixed Grimstroke's Ink Trail not always applying
  
• Fixed Grimstroke's Ink Trail visual stopping early when the debuff is still applied
  
• Fixed Jakiro Liquid Fire not benefitting from AoE increases. Jakiro's Liquid Fire Area of Effect can now be visualized when casting
  
• Fixed Lich losing all of his mana when casting Sinister Gaze on a Huskar who has recently been attacked by Silencer's Glaives of Wisdom
  
• Fixed Legion Commander's Duel not ending when winning against an illusion or reincarnating hero
  
• Fixed Legion Commander being able to move during Duel with specific order combinations
  
• Fixed Mars being able to create immobile spears
  
• Fixed active item shared cooldown not being shared across Meepos if he has multiple items with the same shared cooldown in his inventory
  
• Fixed Meepo being able to crash the server with two armlets
  
• Fixed Meepo being able to crash the server with observer/sentry wards
  
• Fixed Meepo being able to use many Hands of Midas
  
• Fixed Meepo clones being able to receive sentry and observer wards
  
• Fixed several exploits with Meepo having multiple copies of the same item
  
• Fixed Monkey King not having his untransform ability after using Mischief
  
• Fixed Morphling Replicate not replicating the innate ability of the target
  
• Fixed Morphling having incorrect hotkeys when replicating
  
• Fixed Muerta losing Supernatural stacks when respawning with Aegis
  
• Fixed Night Stalker not refreshing basic abilities with Aghanim's Scepter when killing Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed Ogre's Fireblast and Unrefined Fireblast not multicasting correctly if there is an existing multicasting Fireblast already occurring
  
• Fixed Omniknight's +75% Hammer of Purity Bonus Base Damage giving +80 AoE bonus to Purification
  
• Fixed Primal Beast getting moved if his Pulverize was reflected by Lotus Orb
  
• Fixed Primal Beast Pulverize not ending correctly if he targets a Soulbound hero, if his secondary target is out of world
  
• Fixed Rubick abilities getting removed when stealing Largo Amphibian Rhapsody and Monkey King's Wukong's Command at the same time
  
• Added a tooltip for Spirit Breaker's scepter specifying it increases Nether Strike's knockback as well
  
• Fixed Tiny's Tree Volley dealing different amounts of damage if he was holding a tree or not after buying Aghanim's Shard
  
• Fixed some values not incrementing correctly when using Eldwurm's Edda in Ability Draft
  
• Fixed an issue with Winter Wyvern Winter's Curse kill sometimes counting as a deny if a previously unaffected enemy entered the effect of the winters curse after it initially started
  
• Fixed Zeus's Lightning Hands not starting in the toggle on state when acquiring acquiring a shard while dead
  

Patch 7.41 is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.

In addition, we've made the following improvements and bug fixes:

• Added an overhead indicator when a consumable item is being used on an ally or given to one within 1200 units (e.g., Tango)
• Added an option in Settings to show your hero's current vision while holding the 'Select Hero' hotkey, amended by Fog of War
• Item recipe components are now consistently ordered from most expensive to least expensive to make Quick Buy more predictable (exceptions include boots, Blink Dagger, and a few others)
• Fixed certain on hit effects not working consistently after there were more than 256 projectiles in flight at the same time
• Fixed certain scenarios under which a player's Observer and Sentry wards were replaced with an error model
• Trying to craft a Neutral Item while your inventory is full and your Neutral Item Slot is occupied with an innate item (e.g. Witch Doctor's Gris Gris) will now fail instead of automatically consuming the item
• Fixed Neutral Crafting hotkeys overriding regular hotkeys if you clicked on the neutral crafting button of a hero you could not control
• Ability Draft:
  • All heroes now have their innate ability when drafted
  • Updated ability pool to match the added/removed abilities for 7.41
  • Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear not spawning after some time
  • Fixed Rearm not granting Keen Conveyance
  • Fixed Techies' Reactive Tazer not working with Largo's Aghanim's Shard
• Deprecated support for GPUs that do not support DirectX 11/SM5. Upcoming graphics features and performance improvements require DX11/SM5, and a future update will remove support for older devices. (99.96% of active players have DX11/SM5-capable devices.)

Every year, dedicated Dota players around the globe join together and train relentlessly with a single goal in mind: to battle through the highest levels of opposition and emerge victorious as the last squad standing. These resolute competitors must find a way to intertwine the strands of talent, dreams, and sacrifice into one immortal design, knowing every challenge, every choice, every risk pulls the pattern tighter, and every mistake they make threatens to tear it all apart.

The final threads of this year's competitive season will cross in China, as the 15th Anniversary of The International welcomes the best Dota teams in the world to face off for the Aegis of Champions on August 20-23 at the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai.

The sixteen teams contending for the Aegis will consist of rosters that earn direct invites and those that arise from the Open Qualifiers (June 9-12) and the Regional Qualifiers (June 15-28). Once the action moves to Shanghai, the teams must fight through a Swiss-style Group Stage (August 13-16) to secure one of eight slots at the main event.

Make sure to check back for more information on ticketing as we approach the showdown in Shanghai. For now, there's already a ton of pro Dota heating up the calendar, and it will only get more intense as we weave further into the year. Tune in as teams battle across all regions to prove they deserve a chance to stand amongst the world's finest on Dota's biggest stage.

Over the past few days we've addressed the following issues:

• Fixed a bug where Clinkz's Skeleton Archers were doing more than the intended amount of damage to buildings.
• Fixed a bug where Slark's Depth Shroud was not applying the intended move speed and health regen to allies.
• Fixed a bug where Spectre's Shadow Step had an interaction with attack range extension items, which was leading to a longer than intended duration.
• Fixed a bug where Muerta's Gunslinger bonus damage talent did not scale when applied to illusions, leading to more damage than intended.
• Fixed a bug where Turbo games would sometimes deduct 2 gold on ban phase completion.
• Fixed Largo's Croak of Genius damage proccing other abilities (Batrider's Sticky Napalm, Searing Signet, etc.)
• Fixed a performance issue with network encoding which substantially reduces the number of 'server hitch' frames.
• Restructured how cosmetic items interact with Dota network traffic: Most cosmetic items now take zero network bandwidth after game start, improving both client and server performance.
• Fixed a bug where cosmetic items were being created every time a hero spawned, gradually reducing performance.
• Items equipped in only ability effects slots no longer appear as if equipped on the hero in post-game or MVP screens.