Kebap and Aidar leave FnaticMSI.DotA

In the last two days FnaticMSI have announced the retirement of two of their key players Aidar "Aidar" Aringazin and Rene "Kebap" Werner.


It is with great regret to announce that I have retired from DotA but I feel the that my studies at school are more important to me now, despite my huge amount of love for the game. I had a great time with the team but my education is my foremost priority right now. I would like to thank Fnatic, MSI, SteelSeries, Bigfoot Networks, BestPoker and UGAME for their support.
Aidar "Aidar" Aringazin


"I had a great time, while being member of fnatic, but at GamesCom I recognized, that we do not fit together as person. I would really thank fnatic and their sponsors. They really are one of the best organisations out there. Thanks for the great time!"
Rene "Kebap" Werner

This has left FnaticMSI with a 3-man line up consisting of

flag Jonathan "Loda" Berg
flag Rasmus "MiSeRy" Berth Filipsen
flag Edvin "Kwom" Börjesson


Replacements for both players are expected to be announced.

Sources
http://www.fnatic.com/news/3478/FnaticMSI-bid-Kebap-farewell.html
http://www.fnatic.com/news/3482/FnaticMSIDotA-Aidar-calls-it-quits.html

MYM to return in less than a week


MYM have announced a few days ago that their DotA team is set to return in less than 8 days; there are already many rumors about who is going to be leading the team and possible players.

Ex-MYM team includes big names such as Mealk, Mania, Fear, Merlene, Loda, H4nn1, Pusher, Slahser, Levent, Akke and many others.

It is interesting to note that most of these players are currently playing for other teams such as Ravens, EG, Fnatic etc.

Stay tuned for more updates on this topic as dotahelper will be updated daily.

Source : http://www.mymym.com/en/news/16114.html

Loda, Maelk and Fear's blogs


Jonathon Berg, Jacob Toft-Andersen and Clinton Loomis have each created blogs on Dingblog.com; Loda and Maelk's blogs are very active and interesting. Here are the links if you are interested in visiting them.

http://maelk.dingblog.com/
http://loda.dingblog.com/
http://feardarkness.dingblog.com/

I found this on the playdota.com forum
http://www.playdota.com/forums/17467/loda-maelk-fear-blog/

DotA 6.61b AI Map to be released soon.

Buffmeplz has announced on his blog that the new AI map is close to release; He has also announced that the new AI map will only be compatible with WC3 v1.23 meaning that it will not work with v1.24.

Here's a link to his blog post http://buffmeplz.blogspot.com/2009/08/hrm.html

Some heroes have been disabled in certain modes due to the fact that they cause the game to crash; e.g. Dazzle has been disabled in -dm mode.

For more information on the new AI map, subscribe to this blog as it will be updated as soon as the map is released.

Warcraft III Patch v1.24 Released !

Blizzard has announced the official release of the new patch v1.24 on their website a few days ago, many users on Garena have already made the switch especially in European and Singapore rooms.

Here's a link to the information article by blizzard
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21220


And here's another link to the English version of the new patch
http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3x/patches/pc/War3TFT_124a_English.exe


I will be adding a link to the Warcraft Version Switcher shortly.

To download any older Warcraft III patch or the v1.24 patch in another language visit the blizzard ftp link shown below.

Source
http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/war3x/patches/pc/

Get a Garena gold member for Free !!!!

This is 100% real and i tried it myself with my friends and it worked for all of us, all you need to do is go to freesky.garena.com and finish different quests to claim your free gold membership.

Here's a link to the website Freesky and here's the different quests that you need to complete to claim your GM LINK

The easiest one which is joining an alliance would probably take you around 3 minutes max and gives you 7 days free gold member.

Each quest has a different gift so be sure to do them all.

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