The International 2 – Main Event Brackets Released

The brackets for The International’s main event this weekend have been officially released. compLexity.DOTA2 managed to successfully pass through the preliminary (group) stage in second place giving them an excellent seed for the main event.

Starting off in the winners bracket, coL.DOTA2 will be up against the Singaporean team that placed third at last years event, Zenith. Matches in the winners bracket will be best of three, where as in the losers bracket matches are best of one, giving a great deal of importance to the preliminary’s that have just past.

The main event begins on Friday the 31st of August at 9:30 PST!

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Winners Bracket:

Losers Bracket:

Check out the official coverage hub at http://www.dota2.com/international/

coL.HoN Wins DreamHoN Summer 2012!

coL.HoN secured their title and $20,000 in only 2 games in a potential double best of three Grand Finals. In the second game, coL.HoN jumped out to a 15-1 lead before Trademark eSports conceded. coL.HoN managed to make their way through the Winners Bracket, dropping only a single game in the process. Congratulations to both teams and we’re happy to say that coL.HoN is now 1 for 1 under the compLexity banner.

DreamHoN Online Summer Championships – Finals

compLexity.HoN has taken out the winners bracket final for the DreamHoN Summer Championships guaranteeing them a minimum $7,000 USD prize with the potential of $20,000 and an invite to DreamHack Winter (with travel stipend). They managed to win 2 – 1 against TradeMark eSports of whom was the first team to take a map away from the coL.HoN team in tournament play.

tdM managed to take the first game in the best of three series asking serious questions of the coL.HoN side. They played to their draft, dragged out the game for enough time until they were able to overpower the coL.HoN side. In the second and third maps these questions were answered with the compLexity team coming out firing, the second game had a slightly shaky start by coL.HoN, however they were able to hold form and push on to the third game. coL.HoN had the momentum behind them and were able to take the third game in just under 17 minutes.

Due to the double elimination nature of the tournament finals, coL.HoN will start a best of three series up, meaning that the winner of the loser’s bracket will be required to beat coL.HoN in two best of three series in a row. The grand final will be against TradeMark eSports after they managed to fight their way out of the losers bracket in a win over Team It’s Gosu. This will be a rematch of the Winners Bracket Final where coL.HoN managed to win 2-1 after losing the first game in what was a very close series.

Check out the updated brackets for the finals below:

 

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Time: 15:00 EST / 21:00 CET
Format: Best of Three (Twice)

Tonight at 7:00PM EST, compLexity’s qxc will be participating in the third episode of ALT Starcraft’s showmatch series “The Gauntlet.” For those of you who may not be too familiar with The Gauntlet, it’s a pretty interesting idea. Basically Team ALT challenges a professional player to a 5 game showmatch. While Team ALT gets to switch out players after each game, the pro is left to take on whoever comes out next. With each win the pro will be taking home $20, meaning he could bring him $100 with an all-kill.

The map pool for The Gauntlet includes:
ESV Cloud Kingdom
ESV Ohana
GSL Antiga Shipyard
GSL Atlantis Spaceship
GSL Daybreak
GSL Entombed Valley
GSL Metropolis

To watch tonight’s episode, tune in here at 7:00PM EST.

In the 16th episode of “Mind of the Gamer,” the show that has professional gamers explain their replay and describe what they were thinking during the match, Josh “TriMaster” Niven, a highly skilled Terran player recaps one of this matches to give insight to this gameplay.

The Executives #17: Creating a Sponsorship Deck

Complexity Gaming and Team Dignitas, in conjunction with Sound Blaster, are proud to present the next episode of a new live show hosted by Jason Lake and Michael O`Dell: The Executives: The Business of Gaming #17: Creating a Sponsorship Deck.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1:00 PM EST your hosts will be joined by news anchor Patrick “Chobopeon” O`Neill to discuss the business side of recent events. This week’s episode will feature Curt “Keyhunt” Carter, the Managing Director of Check-Six. Curt will be on the show to provide viewers with insight into the world of sponsorship decks.

The Executives’ goal is to educate the next generation of business leaders and facilitate an open discussion about the opportunities and challenges facing the eSports business today.

You can tune in at www.twitch.tv/compLexity.

VOD: All VODs will be hosted HERE.

MP3: TBD | iTunes

Direct MP3 RSS: Here

Official Team Liquid Thread: HERE

Future Guest Lineup (subject to change):

• TBA

Always feel free to share your news, show ideas and questions with our crew.

Contacts:

• Jason “1” Lake, Founder & CEO, Complexity Gaming. @coL_Lake
• Michael “Odee” O`Dell, Founder & Managing Director, Team Dignitas. @dignitasODEE
• Patrick “Chobopeon” O`Neill, eSports journalist and news anchor. @chobopeon
• Simon “Sympatico” Abitbol, Stream Producer. @SympaticoTV

compLexity Gaming: YOUR source for professional gaming news and entertainment!

On behalf of everyone here in the compLexity Family, we would like to wish coL.FG’s Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez a very happy birthday today.

Ryan first joined compLexity along with the boys from Cross Counter as they formed coL.CC. Over the years, Ryan has become one of the most popular, talented and recognized players in the industry. With his recent wins at both ReveLAtions and EVO 2012, Ryan has proven himself to be one of the world’s best FGC gamers.

Once again, we’d like to wish Ryan a very happy birthday. Post your birthday wishes here!

GosuGamers HoN Rankings Places compLexity Gaming at #1

GosuGamers has released a ranking of the top 5 teams in the current Heroes of Newerth competitive scene by polling twenty well respected competitive players, managers and members of the community. The ranking was based upon a 5 point scale whereby the team voted first recives 5 points per voter, the team voted second gets 4 points per voter and so forth.

The coL.HoN team was able to take out the ranking with an impressive 100 point score, meaning that all twenty voters placed them in the first place of their top 5 lists.

Here is a sample of what was said about the compLexity Heroes of Newerth team on GosuGamers:

Check out the full article and full ranking over at GosuGamers

DreamHoN Online Championships – Finals

Another win for compLexity.HoN when they took down one of HoN’s better known stalwarts Team Tt eSPORTS 2-0. The first game was hotly contested and went along for a significant amount of time before the coL.HoN capitalised on some mistakes by TteS and managed to take out the first game. The second game of the series was fairly one-sided with compLexity.HoN continuing their undefeated streak throughout this tournament.

On Monday the 27th of August coL.HoN will be up against TradeMark eSports and is sure to be one of the top grudge matches of the tournament. The compLexity.HoN team currently have a 20-0 record in tournament play and will be looking to maintain the clean record and come out on top in this best of three series in the winners bracket finals!

Check out the updated brackets for the finals below:

Be sure to tune into the HoNCast stream at 3PM EST on Monday August 27th to watch the series!

 

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Time: 15:00 EST / 21:00 CET
Format: Best of Three

compLexity attends various activities at Valve HQ as they prepare for The International 2 in Seattle, Washington.