It's time to raise the curtain on the 2016 Dota 2 Short Film Contest.

From now until the morning of July 26th, 2016, filmmakers are invited to submit their short film creations to the Dota 2 Steam Workshop. Upon review of the Workshop ratings and discussions, Valve will nominate ten entries to be featured in The International 2016 Battle Pass for a final voting process by the community to determine the winners. The winning films will then be announced and showcased as part of The International 2016 broadcast, and while each nominee is guaranteed to win $500, the top three will take home prizes of $25,000, $10,000, and $5,000 for their efforts.

More information and guidelines on the submission process can be found on the Dota 2 Short Film Contest site.

Be sure to check in on the Workshop page regularly to help review the submissions you would like to see showcased at The International 2016.

- Fixed a server problem which occasionally delayed recording match results and quest completion.
- Fixed animations on Shadow Shaman's and Venomancer's wards.
- Fixed a rare case where Winter Wyvern would not get kill credit with Winter's Curse.
- The Clearcut Challenger Helper is rate limited to reasonable human values on the server and always has been. Excessive scripting does not contribute to the overall total.

Added the ability to cut down trees while matchmaking - counting towards the community goal.
The Miss You More Quest in the Path of the Rogue has been changed to:
Purchase Solar Crest before the game timer reaches 22:00 / 18:00 / 14:00.
The Pure Magic Quest in the Path of the Spellbinder has had the time duration for achieving the max count of damage instances increased from 5 to 10 seconds.
Fixed many outdated Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade tooltips.
New Section added to Battle Pass Rewards page to track Level Up Rewards
Improved ward targeting at the ward spot above Roshan.
Starting with the next voting round, arcana vote results will be hidden while in calibration until enough votes have been made.
River vials now last 15 minutes.
You can now override an existing river vial with a stronger one.
River vials get consumed only on expiration if they lasted the full 15 minutes. (They do not get consumed if they are overriden by a stronger vial)
Fixed Weekly challenge achievements' Level 2 and Level 3 progress bar.
Fixed some sounds playing at the map origin instead of at cast position
Fixed recent regressions in some custom game script APIs.
Allow -cursor_scale_percent to scale the cursor smaller than the Windows cursor size

The International 2016 Battle Pass has arrived. Stuffed full of objectives, features, and exclusive rewards, this Battle Pass celebrates the journey through The International season, and the Dota 2 community that makes it all possible.

Battle Pass owners can undertake in-game Quests, stake Wagering Tokens to score Battle Points, and pitch in on a series of Community Challenges, all while pushing your Battle Level along a path of rewards to unlock a digital trove of items. With an initial bundle of myriad items and Immortal Treasures to open, loads of Level Rewards to earn, and two different terrains to explore, the gallery of rewards is nearly endless.

Head over to The International 2016 Battle Pass pagefor more information, including details on the first Weekend Battle Cup, The International 2016 Compendium, a Peak MMR Challenge, The Manila Major Predictions, and much more. As in years past, 25% of all sales will go directly to The International 2016 prize pool.

The International 2016 Battle Pass has arrived. Stuffed full of objectives, features, and exclusive rewards, this Battle Pass celebrates the journey through The International season, and the Dota 2 community that makes it all possible.

Battle Pass owners can undertake in-game Quests, stake Wagering Tokens to score Battle Points, and pitch in on a series of Community Challenges, all while pushing your Battle Level along a path of rewards to unlock a digital trove of items. With an initial bundle of myriad items and Immortal Treasures to open, loads of Level Rewards to earn, and two different terrains to explore, the gallery of rewards is nearly endless.

Head over to The International 2016 Battle Pass pagefor more information, including details on the first Weekend Battle Cup, The International 2016 Compendium, a Peak MMR Challenge, The Manila Major Predictions, and much more. As in years past, 25% of all sales will go directly to The International 2016 prize pool.

* Fixed a bug that could cause the player queueing the longest in a given match to have a slightly higher chance of being on Radiant than Dire

Mirana's Scepter no longer only considers Moonlight Shadow for invisibility.
Adjusted the blue color for Scan in Color Blind mode.
Fixed being unable to progress through Guided Bot Match.
Fixed a bug which disabled fog of war on particles.

6.87c:

* Infernal Blade base damage reduced from 40 to 25/30/35/40
* Armlet armor bonus when activated reduced from 5 to 4
* Essence Aura now uses Pseudo-Random Distribution
* Wind Lace cost increased from 225 to 235
* Wind Lace is no longer available in the Side Shop
* Silver Edge now has a 300 gold recipe
* Arc Warden base damage improved by 4
* Vengeful Spirit Intelligence reduced from 15 + 1.75 to 13 + 1.5
* Super Creep gold increase over time reduced from 2 to 1.5 per upgrade cycle
* Beastmaster's Boar Poison no longer pierces Spell Immunity
* Greevil's Greed no longer benefits illusions
* Storm Spirit Intelligence increased from 23 + 2.6 to 24 + 3.0
* Slardar base movement speed reduced from 300 to 295
* Metamorphosis no longer increases Base Attack Time
* Conjure Image damage taken reduced from 425% to 400%
* Stifling Dagger base damage increased from 60 to 75
* AoE Bounty Gold based on level reduced from 8/7/6/4/4 to 6/5/4/3/3 per level
* Grave Chill cast range increased from 600 to 650
* Jinada slow reduced from 18/22/26/30% to 15/20/25/30%

* Fixed being unable to apply Desolator's debuff if the target had the Bloodthorn debuff.
* Scan now supports color blind mode.
* Item Workshop - Fixes to address various problems when submitting ability models.

- Fixed some cases where users could crash the dedicated server instance.
Earlier this week we deployed better reporting of server crashes and using this better data we've already been able to fix three different exploits that a small number of players had been using. The responsible players will be VAC banned and we will continue to closely monitor for server exploits.