The main Dota 2 news for the week: the second act of the “Dark Carnival”, departures from the EWC, the return of AndreyIMMERSION

The editors have collected the main news of the past week. A digest of events from the Dota 2 world for the period from July 6 to July 12 is in our material.

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News of the week:

• “Thanks to Steam support for the quick help” - 23savage account restored a day later
• AndreyIMMERSION: “I usually play for three days: three days and three nights”
• AndreyIMMERSION about his personal life: “What kind of girl? I'm a player, doter"
• Online Artifact grew more than 400 times in 10 minutes
• Xtreme Gaming roster set a record for most hero matches in one draft
• morf settled the conflict with Nix. Now the content maker has received a strike from Arthas
• Dota 2 came out of beta exactly 13 years ago
• French President Macron on Esports World Cup 2026: “Paris is going global”
• The second chapter of the “Dark Carnival” has been released in Dota 2
• rmN- may return to Nigma Galaxy - he was spotted at EWC 2026 next to Kuroky during the match against Liquid
• The Esports World Cup 2026 Dota 2 championship trophy has an inscription in Russian
• They constantly threw me a character from Dota in the comments, saying that I looked like him - Dora about Meepo
• Enjoy disbanded the lineup with v1olent and swedenstrong - the team was supposed to perform at Games of the Future 2026

Our materials:

• Perhaps we will actually see tournaments with smaller budgets - WYHM on reducing the prize money at BLAST Slam

The group stage of the Esports World Cup 2026 has ended. Eight of the twenty-four participants have already left the tournament. The brackets for the Survival and playoff rounds were also formed. The end of one of the two main tournaments of the season is already close.

Those who are indifferent to eSports will also not be bored. They jump on platforms on Slark and give each other the necessary Dark Carnival tickets, since the second act of the long-awaited event is already in the game. Unlike Fallen Crown, Valve released everything on a pre-announced date with no delays.

After a break, the record holder for the most matches in Dota 2, AndreyIMMERSION, returned to Twitch. He answered several questions that interested the audience. Among other things, the streamer said that he refused women so as not to be distracted from the game. For the same reason, Andrey does not work. He even spends only 2-5 hours sleeping in three days.

Many readers have become concerned about AndreyIMMERSION's health due to his routine, as well as the way the man has changed in appearance. But voting on our social networks showed that most of those surveyed consider Andrey a happy person.

Realizing that the official release of Dota 2 took place 13 years ago, and even before that many were playing in beta, one may be surprised at the relatively stable online of the ancient game. Oldies of the first Dota, write in the comments how you deal with pain in your knees and back.

During active recreation, Vladislav 'Kataomi` Semyonov injured his leg. Because of this, the team missed the bootcamp, and he has to move around the venue of the Esports World Cup 2026 with the help of friends and a wheelchair. If he had played Dota at home, this would not have happened.

The former composition of 1win Team, which signed the ex-Tundra Esports, turned out to be not needed by the organization even under the “academic” tag Enjoy. Players who received an invitation to the “Games of the Future” were transferred to inactive status and put on freezing transfer.

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