With three weekend tournaments remaining in the Fall 2016 Battle Cup regular season, aspiring post-season contenders still have time to make a final push and raise their Battle Cup Scores high enough to qualify for the inaugural Champions Cup.

Any player with a Battle Cup Score of 110 or higher by the end of play on Sunday, December 11 will earn a golden ticket inviting them to compete against other top performers in the season-ending Champions Cup on Saturday, December 17.

For those who have already battled past the qualifying score, look for golden tickets to start appearing in your Armories next week. A special chat room will be available for ticket holders to help you put together a squad that has what it takes to have the last Ancient standing.

Champions Cup winners will retain their prestige status until the start of the next Battle Cup season, and winners in Tier 8 will even be eligible to compete in one of four Spring Major Battle Cup Qualifiers, with a shot at claiming a spot in their Regional Qualifier for the Spring 2017 Major. More details on the Tier 8 Qualifiers will come in the spring.

As a reminder, due to The Boston Major Main Event schedule, the final regular season Battle Cup will played on Sunday, December 11. You can find the complete Fall 2016 schedule in the Battle Cup FAQ. Please note that the registration window for the Battle Cup on November 26 will remain open for 60 minutes.

With three weekend tournaments remaining in the Fall 2016 Battle Cup regular season, aspiring post-season contenders still have time to make a final push and raise their Battle Cup Scores high enough to qualify for the inaugural Champions Cup.

Any player with a Battle Cup Score of 110 or higher by the end of play on Sunday, December 11 will earn a golden ticket inviting them to compete against other top performers in the season-ending Champions Cup on Saturday, December 17.

For those who have already battled past the qualifying score, look for golden tickets to start appearing in your Armories next week. A special chat room will be available for ticket holders to help you put together a squad that has what it takes to have the last Ancient standing.

Champions Cup winners will retain their prestige status until the start of the next Battle Cup season, and winners in Tier 8 will even be eligible to compete in one of four Spring Major Battle Cup Qualifiers, with a shot at claiming a spot in their Regional Qualifier for the Spring 2017 Major. More details on the Tier 8 Qualifiers will come in the spring.

As a reminder, due to The Boston Major Main Event schedule, the final regular season Battle Cup will played on Sunday, December 11. You can find the complete Fall 2016 schedule in the Battle Cup FAQ. Please note that the registration window for the Battle Cup on November 26 will remain open for 60 minutes.

Also returning for the Year of the Rooster, the Valve Store powered by WeLoveFine is again accepting Dota 2 merchandise designs to launch in celebration of the Lunar New Year. Submit your swag ideas to the Workshop and you could join the growing number of artists with retail merchandise designs available through the online Valve Store." />

Also returning for the Year of the Rooster, the Valve Store powered by WeLoveFine is again accepting Dota 2 merchandise designs to launch in celebration of the Lunar New Year. Submit your swag ideas to the Workshop and you could join the growing number of artists with retail merchandise designs available through the online Valve Store." />

- Fixed Morphling causing performance issues in bot games.
- Fixed bots not using the specified difficulty level.
- Fixed issue where some team emoticons weren’t working with :pro_team:
- Fixed the interaction between Rubick’s Spell Steal, Treant Protector’s Eyes in the Forest and Techies’ Land Mines.

The Fantasy Challenge returns for The Boston Major. Head into the Compendium section of your Battle Pass to unwrap your 12 Player Card Packs and start assembling your daily Fantasy Rosters. Slot your favorite pros into Core, Offlane, or Support roles, and earn fantasy points based on their performances in the Group Stage and Main Event.

Complete an entire set of Player Cards for any pro team, and you can select to use that team's in-game TP effects and team logo emoticon. Collecting a full set of either Silver or Gold cards for a team will unlock upgrades to the TP effects and emoticon. Show off the favorites in your collection by adding Player Cards to your Dota 2 profile.

Fantasy play kicks off on December 3 with the start of the Group Stage in Boston, and daily rosters will lock at 10:00 a.m. EST on each day of the tournament. Score in the top 50% of all players to earn 2 Battle Levels, reach the top 25% to get 4 Battle Levels, or captain yourself to the top 10% to collect 8 Battle Levels. With the best pro players in the world at your disposal, you might even crack the Global Top 100 Leaderboard, or at least place first amongst friends.

Today's update also includes the addition of The International 2016 Battle Pass Summary to your player profile. Now you can survey the records of your Battle Level, Quest progress, Wagering and Battle Cup performance, Player Card collection, and more.

The Fantasy Challenge returns for The Boston Major. Head into the Compendium section of your Battle Pass to unwrap your 12 Player Card Packs and start assembling your daily Fantasy Rosters. Slot your favorite pros into Core, Offlane, or Support roles, and earn fantasy points based on their performances in the Group Stage and Main Event.

Complete an entire set of Player Cards for any pro team, and you can select to use that team's in-game TP effects and team logo emoticon. Collecting a full set of either Silver or Gold cards for a team will unlock upgrades to the TP effects and emoticon. Show off the favorites in your collection by adding Player Cards to your Dota 2 profile.

Fantasy play kicks off on December 3 with the start of the Group Stage in Boston, and daily rosters will lock at 10:00 a.m. EST on each day of the tournament. Score in the top 50% of all players to earn 2 Battle Levels, reach the top 25% to get 4 Battle Levels, or captain yourself to the top 10% to collect 8 Battle Levels. With the best pro players in the world at your disposal, you might even crack the Global Top 100 Leaderboard, or at least place first amongst friends.

Today's update also includes the addition of The International 2016 Battle Pass Summary to your player profile. Now you can survey the records of your Battle Level, Quest progress, Wagering and Battle Cup performance, Player Card collection, and more.

- Reports and Commends can now only be sent in the post-game screen.
- Fixed a problem with the attack-move command which sometimes caused more distant units to be targeted.

* You can no longer random in the last 10 seconds in Unranked or in the final pick per team in Ranked
* Repicking in Unranked now behaves the same as Ranked, giving you a new random hero rather than letting you pick a hero directly
* You will no longer have a chance of receiving the same hero after re-randoming
* Increased report sensitivity (making it more likely that a reported user will go into low priority)

The Boston Major is just one month away. Congratulations to the eight teams that battled through the Qualifiers to earn their places alongside the direct invites. While the attending teams and players make their final adjustments and preparations before traveling to Boston, we'd like to turn briefly to the remaining events in this year's Dota 2 Major Championships schedule.

THE SPRING MAJOR AND THE INTERNATIONAL 2017
The Spring Major Main Event will take place April 20 - 23, 2017, preceded by Open Qualifiers on March 6 - 9, and Regional Qualifiers on March 10 - 13. Wrapping up the competitive season, The International 2017 Main Event will once again be held in the first half of August, with Open Qualifiers running June 22 - 25, and Regional Qualifiers following on June 26 - 29.

For the Spring Major Qualifiers, we will be breaking the Americas Qualifiers into two distinct regions—North America and South America—and similarly changing the Europe Qualifiers into separate Europe Qualifiers and CIS Qualifiers.

THE BOSTON MAJOR
Now that the field of competing teams for the Fall Major is complete, we look forward to welcoming the players and fans to Boston’s Wang Theatre. With an influx of up-and-coming rosters set to square off against the established teams in a single-elimination playoff bracket, all with their sights set on claiming the Eaglesong trophy, there's no telling how the action will unfold. Tune in for Group Stage play on December 3 - 4 followed by the Main Event on December 7 - 10 to find out.

Invited Teams:
Wings Gaming
Digital Chaos
Evil Geniuses
Newbee
EHOME
Execration
OG
MVP Phoenix

Qualified Teams:
Team NP
compLexity Gaming
LGD.Forever Young
iG Vitality
Ad Finem
Virtus.pro
Team Faceless
WarriorsGaming.Unity