Returning to Seattle’s KeyArena, The International Dota 2 Championship once again brings the world’s top Dota teams together to battle for the Aegis of Champions, with the main event set to run for 6 days from Monday August 8th through Saturday August 13th.

Tickets will go on sale April 7th at 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM Seattle Time, and this year’s competition will offer two ticket options. The Midweek ticket—available for $75—will grant attendance to the first four days of the event August 8th – 11th, and includes access to the opening ceremony and the All-Star match. The Finals ticket—available for $100—will grant access to the last two days of the main event, August 12th and 13th. Both ticket options can be purchased in a single order.

As a special bonus to fans attending the event, we will be dropping unique in-game items to audience members inside of the arena. At First Blood in each individual game, 500 exclusive Attendee Treasures will drop, each containing visually-unique versions of this year’s Secret Shop Immortals. To be eligible, you must have a badge linked to a Steam account and be in the arena when First Blood occurs.

For fans with only the Midweek ticket, we’re also providing a free large outdoor viewing area on the KeyArena grounds where you’ll be able to watch the final two days.

You can check out the Ticketing FAQ here.

Tickets will be available via Ticketmaster. We recommend that you prepare your Ticketmaster account and log in before tickets go on sale to help ensure a smooth purchasing experience. If you are unsure when tickets will go on sale in your time zone, please use this handy time zone converter.

• Seattle: April 7th at 10AM and 10PM
  
• Rio de Janeiro: April 7th at 2PM and April 8th at 2AM
  
• London: April 7th at 6PM and April 8th at 6AM
  
• Berlin: April 7th at 7PM and April 8th at 7AM
  
• Moscow: April 7th at 8PM and April 8th at 8AM
  
• Beijing: April 8th at 1AM and 1PM
  
• Singapore: April 8th at 1AM and 1PM
  
• Seoul: April 8th at 2AM and 2PM
  
• Sydney: April 8th at 3AM and 3PM
  

The International Qualifiers will be held after completion of The Manila Major, with Open Qualifiers kicking off June 21st and the Regional Qualifiers following on June 25th.

Returning to Seattle’s KeyArena, The International Dota 2 Championship once again brings the world’s top Dota teams together to battle for the Aegis of Champions, with the main event set to run for 6 days from Monday August 8th through Saturday August 13th.

Tickets will go on sale April 7th at 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM Seattle Time, and this year’s competition will offer two ticket options. The Midweek ticket—available for $75—will grant attendance to the first four days of the event August 8th – 11th, and includes access to the opening ceremony and the All-Star match. The Finals ticket—available for $100—will grant access to the last two days of the main event, August 12th and 13th. Both ticket options can be purchased in a single order.

As a special bonus to fans attending the event, we will be dropping unique in-game items to audience members inside of the arena. At First Blood in each individual game, 500 exclusive Attendee Treasures will drop, each containing visually-unique versions of this year’s Secret Shop Immortals. To be eligible, you must have a badge linked to a Steam account and be in the arena when First Blood occurs.

For fans with only the Midweek ticket, we’re also providing a free large outdoor viewing area on the KeyArena grounds where you’ll be able to watch the final two days.

You can check out the Ticketing FAQ here.

Tickets will be available via Ticketmaster. We recommend that you prepare your Ticketmaster account and log in before tickets go on sale to help ensure a smooth purchasing experience. If you are unsure when tickets will go on sale in your time zone, please use this handy time zone converter.

• Seattle: April 7th at 10AM and 10PM
  
• Rio de Janeiro: April 7th at 2PM and April 8th at 2AM
  
• London: April 7th at 6PM and April 8th at 6AM
  
• Berlin: April 7th at 7PM and April 8th at 7AM
  
• Moscow: April 7th at 8PM and April 8th at 8AM
  
• Beijing: April 8th at 1AM and 1PM
  
• Singapore: April 8th at 1AM and 1PM
  
• Seoul: April 8th at 2AM and 2PM
  
• Sydney: April 8th at 3AM and 3PM
  

The International Qualifiers will be held after completion of The Manila Major, with Open Qualifiers kicking off June 21st and the Regional Qualifiers following on June 25th.

* Ranked Captain's Mode now selects the highest ranked player of each team to be captain.
* If a captain disconnects in Captain's Mode, another player is chosen to be team captain.
* Fixed a bug where quickcast on release would trigger untargetted items twice.
* Upgrading boots of travel while teleporting no longer interrupts the teleport.
* Fixed a number of controlled units not respecting the Summoned Units Auto-attack setting.
* Fixed the sharing of tangos with some non-hero units.
* Centaur Warrunner's Stampede now affects hidden units as well, for example during Outworld Devourer's Astral Imprison.

* Fixed holding Alt to show hero icons.
* Fixed bug where cursor could remain invisible forever when spectating a game in camera smooth drag mode while the game ends
* Fixed a bug where the cursor could remain not at its default icon if you disconnected while your cursor was in a different state(for example, the attack cursor)
* Fixed Lone Druid's Bear appearing greyscale even when Lone Druid had an Aghanim's Scepter.
* Fixed the courier's Magic Immunity being purgable.

* For the next few days, only Random Draft and Captain’s Mode will be available in Ranked Matchmaking.
* Fixed mouse 3, 4, and 5 doubleclicks causing the keybinding system to incorrectly generate extra commands.
* Fixed Courier not refilling Bottles when sent to retrieve items from the stash.
* Fixed various Primal Split unit animations.
* Fixed ability click sounds happening twice when using Quickcast on Key Up.

* Fixed a problem with one of Phantom Lancer's attack animations.
* Fixed advanced inventory quickcast keybinds when legacy keys are active
* Re-enabled the settings UI and fixed the quickcast option for abilities when legacy keys are active *and* AdvancedQuickcast/Autocast is enabled
* Fixed a bug with Templar Assassin's Psionic Trap interrupting teleport when teleport requires stop was enabled.

* Fixed a problem where mouse left clicks would sometimes be ignored.
* Fixed Satyr Banisher's Purge not removing Repel
* Fixed inventory smart double tap when using hero-specific ability keybinds
* Fixed a bug where the console could get in a state where it would not open in the main menus, and would open but not close while in game
* Fixed a crash when using the dota_create_item console command.
* Fixed a bug where the HUD would show an incorrect key if you used advanced Quickcast Binds and you bound an inventory slot to Quickcastbut not to normal cast
* Corresponding to the Steam Security and Trading changes, items can only be gifted to Steam friends of at least a year, unless you have a Mobile Authenticator on your account.

* Added smart-doubletap behavior to items.
* Shift+control group is now add selection to control group, instead of add control group to selection.
* Fixed a bug where if you used CRTL+ability bind key to learn an ability and you had quickcast on key up enabled, it would level up the ability twice.
* Fixed a bug where if you had quickcast keys bound, but not normal ability casts, then autocast would not work unless explicitly bound.
* Fixed a bug where autocast would not work with hero-specific keybinds unless explicitly bound.
* Fixed a bug where Quickcast keybinds wouldn't appear in the hud
* Fixed Lycan portrait.
* Fixed a crash with Invoker when only Quickcast keys were bound.
* Fixed the -givebots cheat command.
* Fixed autocompletion of dota_create_item console command.
* Re-enabled dota_camera_disable_yaw.

* Added the ability to use Alt + key for self casting. This allows self casting to be possible using Quickcast. Can be toggled off in the options.
* Enabled the advanced configuration of Quickcast and Auto-Cast alternative keys for abilities

* Wagering bonuses now increased to 2000 until the end of the Battle Pass
* Fixed bug where when you bound a key to an action for the first time, it wouldn't work, but it would work on reload
* Fixed dramatically increased network usage in the recent update

* Fixed some bugs with illusion control groups
* Fixed Maim working on buildings
* Fixed being able to see enemy item cooldowns in the item tooltips
* Fixed an old bug that caused Requiem of Souls to sometimes release less damage/waves on death than intended
* Fixed Blur visual effect
* Fixed a visual bug in the options panel when toggling individual quickcast binds for items
* Fixed being unable to explicitly bind a key to chat
* Minor bugfix in layout for quickcast
* Fixed a bug where if you bound alt + key and then key to a hero-specific keybind, the alt+key would become unbound
* Change collection view spacing to be in columns of 6 rather than 8 to more closely matches the steam inventory
* Fixed various bugs with quickcast on key up sometimes not working with items
* Fixed a crash when using the cancelselect console command
* Fixed vconsole2 being unavailable
* Custom Game Tools: Added particle manager to client-side Lua
* Custom Game Tools: Added a Panorama UI binding for GameUI.SetCameraTarget

As the snows of winter recede and the river ice turns to slush, it's time to clear the lanes and climb the towers for Dota 2's vigorous yearly cleaning.

Featuring a variety of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements, the Spring Cleaning 2016 update will arrive this week, bringing with it hero-specific ability bindings, camera control group hotkeys, Neutral Creep spawn box indicators, and much more.

Check out the update page for some highlights and a complete list of changes.