Each year, The International is not just a tournament of the best professional Dota teams on the planet, but also a place to celebrate the Dota community as a whole. Nowhere is this more evident than with the Short Film Contest, where the community's creators get a chance to showcase their talents on the big screen.

With The International moving to October in Bucharest, there is more time available than originally expected, so we've decided to re-open submissions for the Short Film Contest until September 12th. Creators can continue to perfect their current submissions or even submit new ones.

Head on over to the Short Film Contest website for all of the details.

The Nemestice 2021 Collector's Cache has arrived, featuring a new round of selections from the Dota 2 Workshop. Available until the end of the Nemestice Battle Pass for $2.49, each cache offers one of thirteen item sets for a wide range of heroes -- in addition to the chance to unbox a Rare Sven set, Very Rare Witch Doctor set, or Ultra Rare Morphling set.

To help unlock even more rewards, Battle Pass owners can earn up to 32 levels by opening these treasures. Your first treasure will grant 2,000 Battle Points, with 6,000 more points coming after a sixth treasure and 24,000 arriving after the thirteenth.

If you unbox a set you don't plan to use, unopened item bundles from this treasure can be recycled for two Battle Levels each. The Ultra Rare Morphling set will be marketable, but the remainder of the contents are untradeable and unmarketable.

We'd like to thank the community artists who submitted sets for consideration, as well as the fans who visited the Workshop to help with the voting. We look forward to seeing all of these new additions out in the lanes.

We are thrilled to announce The International 10 - Dota 2 Championships will be held this October in Bucharest, Romania, and the epic battle for the Aegis of Champions will fittingly unfold inside the country's largest stadium — Arena Nationala.

Group Stage will run October 7 - 10, with Main Stage play kicking off on October 12. Then on October 17, the two finest Dota 2 teams in the world will face off for the Aegis and their shares of the $40,018,195 prize pool that awaits. Additional information on ticket sales will come shortly.

We are grateful for the partnership we have formed with Romania and the city of Bucharest, and very much look forward to gathering with the global Dota 2 community, both in-person and virtually, to celebrate the elite players and amazing fandom at The International. Prepare yourselves. At long last, the battle begins.

• Client performance improvements
  
• Team Mystery now has silver and gold content in the Supporters Club.
  
• Team Unknown has been added to the Supporters Club.
  

• Fixed a pathfinding issue with stationary units and body blocking.
  
• New teams have been added to the Supporters Club.
  

New Event Mode & Battle Pass

In the wake of the Mad Moon's destruction, willful fragments of Radiant Ore and Direstone crashed upon our world. But a third type of stone—Nemestice—was left drifting behind. Now, a prophesied Nemestice Storm strikes the heart of the battlefield, and the clash of the Ancients has been forgotten. For Nemestice offers power over both Ancients, and in this land, there is no greater prize.

Prepare for impact over at the Nemestice Battle Pass page, where you can learn more about the free event game and all the rewards in store for those who participate in the Battle Pass—like an all-new Dragon Knight Persona, Spectre Arcana, Young Invoker Dark Artistry Bundle, Immortal Treasure, and heaps more. And this is just the first offering in this year’s cadence of events—we’re planning a second Battle Pass later this year.

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution

This update also adds support for AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution. This technique allows the game to render at a lower resolution and then upscale the results with improved image quality. The result is high quality rendering at a lower performance cost than full resolution rendering, which allows for higher framerates even on less powerful graphics cards. Players can enable this setting in the Video options by turning the "Game Screen Render Quality" to less than 100%, and then turning on the "FidelityFX Super Resolution" checkbox. FidelityFX Super Resolution works on any GPU compatible with DirectX 11 or Vulkan.

The International Regional 10 Qualifiers

Regional Qualifiers for The International will begin as scheduled on June 23 and run through July 10. View the brackets for each region and make predictions in the watch tab of the Dota 2 client. More information on The International event itself will be available soon.

We started working with Sweden back in 2019 to get everything in place to hold TI10 there in 2020. When the global pandemic necessitated a postponement, we doubled our efforts to work in tandem with officials there to make sure we provided them with everything they needed to make this a safe and successful event for everyone.

Over the course of the past year, Stockholm Live and Visit Stockholm continued to reassure us in our regular and constant communications with them that The International - Dota 2 Championships qualified for the same exemptions other elite sporting events there received.

However, despite previous reassurances, we were informed two weeks ago that the Swedish Sports Federation had just voted not to accept esports into the sports federation.

In subsequent (and immediate) meetings with the Swedish Esports Federation (SESF) and Visit Stockholm we discovered our only remaining option was to ask Sweden's Minister of the Interior to reclassify The International - Dota 2 Championships as an elite sporting event. Our request was immediately denied.

With the Minister of the Interior failing to recognize The International - Dota 2 Championships as an elite sporting event, anyone attempting to procure a visa for travel into Sweden for TI10 (including players, talent, and staff) would be denied. The absence of this official recognition also means individual border agents would be making decisions about entry for those traveling to the event from countries outside the EU who do not typically need a visa to enter Sweden.

We filed an appeal directly with the Swedish government on June 9, but they were unable to provide assistance. On June 14 we followed up asking them to reconsider, and they have so far been unable to offer a resolution. As a result, and in light of the current political situation in Sweden, we have started looking for possible alternatives elsewhere in Europe to host the event this year, in case the Swedish government is unable to accommodate The International - Dota 2 Championships as planned. We feel confident that in either instance we will have a solution that allows us to hold TI10 in Europe this year, and that we will be able to announce an updated plan in the very near future.

We remain committed to hosting The International this year in a way that is both safe for all involved, and properly celebrates the players and fans of Dota 2. We will be communicating what we find out as soon as we are able. In the meantime, TI qualifiers will still be happening on the originally scheduled dates starting June 23. And later this week, the all-new summer event Nemestice will arrive.

As the blossoms of spring fade in the face of the onset of summer, today's patch welcomes an accompanying seasonal update for Dota Plus, featuring the return of High Fives and Guild Banners for everyone, along with a new seasonal treasure and refreshed guild quests & rewards.

High Five & Guild Banners
Back again, and available to all players, the High Five ability is here to help everyone celebrate the joys of Dota with both friends and foes. Because nothing accentuates the highs of a good play — or immortalizes a silly one — like a timely hand-to-hand salutation.

We've also granted the Guild Banner ability to all members of a guild, allowing them to show off the guild's status and logo wherever they want during a game.

Dota Plus Seasonal Treasure
The Summer 2021 Seasonal Treasure is here, available for purchase with shards. Exclusive to Dota Plus members, this treasure features all new sets for Chaos Knight, Phantom Assassin, Outworld Destroyer, Wraith King, Sven, Treant Protector, Huskar, Brewmaster, Storm Spirit, and Naga Siren. There's also a chance to unlock the Trod & Cheddar courier, which comes preloaded with random prismatic and kinetic gems.

Updated Seasonal Quests & Guild Rewards
Today’s update also comes with a new set of Dota Plus quests to help reel in some extra shards for new relics and the Seasonal Treasure — offering up to 115,200 shards over the course of the season.

Not to be forgotten, in addition to the rest of today's changes, the guild rewards for silver, gold, and platinum tier guilds have been switched for summer.



Guild Tier
Rewards


Silver

• Emoticon - mango
  
• Emoticon - earth_perfect
  
• Emoticon - earth_grin
  

Gold

• Spray - Ancient Apparition Ice Cream
  
• Spray - Sad Tree
  
• Spray - Skywrath Dunno
  

Platinum

• Chat Wheel - "What Just Happened?"
  
• Chat Wheel - "Нет нет ДА!"
  
• Chat Wheel - "你气不气?"
  

The WePlay AniMajor & the Road to the International
There's only one Major left standing between the top teams in the world and the ultimate showdown at The International. Tune in June 2 - 13 to catch all the action in Kyiv, available to watch and follow in the Dota client. Witness the final clash on the way to Stockholm that will decide the 12 invited teams. The remaining 6 teams will be, as usual, determined by the Regional Qualifiers, where each region will compete for one final slot. The Regional qualifiers will be distributed over a longer period of time to allow for teams competing in the major to respect their respective countries' quarantine processes. The dates for each qualifier are as follows:

EEU and SA: June 23-26
NA and SEA: June: June 30-July 3
CN and EU: July 7-10

More information on how to watch the qualifiers will be available after the WePlay AniMajor concludes. The International Main Event itself returns August 10 - 15, live from Avicii Arena.

Added Elephant, AS Monaco Gambit, Motivate.Trust Gaming, Galaxy Racer Esports, T1, OB.Neon, Team SMG, Army Geniuses, Puckchamp, Binomistas, Royal Never Give Up, CDEC, 496 Gaming and TNC Predator content to the Supporter's Club.

Added PSG.LGD, EHOME, VG, Thunder Predator, Vikin.GG, Infinity Esports, Sparking Arrow Gaming, BOOM Esports, SG Esports and Crewmates content to the Supporter's Club