Dota 2 league - what is it and why

This league is to help new players get into DotA and get some consistent play on GB for DotA, which we feel is at an all time low right now. We feel like this is a very bad thing and we want to do something to fix that. So with that we give you the THE GIANT BOMB HOUSE LEAGUE. What we are planing to do a Round Robin Best of 3 Captains Draft league style. Best of all it will be streamed here. Where people sign up solo or as a group of two and are assigned teams based on skill, location, and preferred position to play. Now some of you will be asking what is a Round Robin and Captains Draft.

A Round Robin is style of organized play where each team plays every other team at least once and if you win you get a point and the other team does not. At the end of the event the team with the most points in the winner.

Now Captains Draft is a mode that not all of you may have encountered. It is a mode where in a Captain bans some heroes and then picks the heroes his/her team will play.

Also some of you may be asking why we are doing assigned teams.We are doing this to make sure that we have evenly balanced 5 man teams to make for close and fun games.

Registration is open in till the 19th of January at 11:59 PM EST

Sign up by giving us your info in this post.

When you sign up you must give us

1. Your steam info
2. local server
3. What you think your experience level is: New, Average or Experienced. ( Please be honest.)
4. Two positions number you feel the most conformable with.(Use the list below to find out where your favorite heroes fall)

You can sign up as a two man group in which case we need both of your info in the same post.

1-5 Hero Types System

Please note that many of the heroes in this game can play different rolls

RULES

1. You must be able to play at least one set a week a set is about 2-3 hours

2. The league style is Round Robin

3. Play fair and respect each other (Don’t be a dick)

4. Both teams captains will submit the match ID numbers and who won for each match played to @rb_man so he can shout cast the replays and update the bracket.

5. When you schedule matches, please inform @rb_man when it’s happening at least 24 hours in advance so he can stream it if he is able.

6. If you have an emergency you can have someone from the league sub for you. Please inform an league organizer as soon as you can before the match.

TEAMS

1. When you are assigned your team you should make contact with all of them and assign a captain.

2. Teams will be chosen by player skill and preferred positions of play.

3.Team captain will be in charge of drafting and setting up matches.(So you had better pick someone that can be on top of it)

If you have any questions please ask in the thread.

Side Note:

We have no Prizes but if someone wants to give us one we will hand it out.

Also if anyone wants to make us a better banner go for it.

Steam name: manhunt360

Local server: US East

Average

1 and 5

Do I sign up here?

1.Steam ID: UndoneBahamut

2.Server: EU West

3. Experienced

4. Support and Hard Carry

Also, Tide should be banned ahead of the games. Just saying...

@Vitor: Ya you sign up in here

@Vitor: Yep you are in now

Also if we were going to do that we should just perma ban TA :P

Baby Choo Choo

US East

Average

3/4

Steam ID : Mrskidders1983

Server : EU West

Average

4 and 5

Fuck yeah!

1. SteamID: Rattle618

2. Server: South America I suppose, but I never play there cause people here suck. US East and West is where I play.

3. New.

4. 2 and 4 maybe?

1. Shibboleth
2. US East
3. New to Average (50-75 games I think)
4. 4 and 5

1. Steam Id: Acura_Max

2. US East

3. New

4. 4 and 3?

Steam ID: TobbRobb

Server: Europe

Skill: Experienced League player, a little lacking in hero knowledge. Over average I'd say.

All roles, I'm not 100% used to jungling though. Still, can kick some ass with Lycan if I need to.

@rb_man said:

@Vitor: Yep you are in now

Also if we were going to do that we should just perma ban TA :P

TA's fine. PL is NOT. Just had him carry 3 games against me and he's impossible to counter in pub games. Seriously annoying.

@Vitor said:

@rb_man said:

@Vitor: Yep you are in now

Also if we were going to do that we should just perma ban TA :P

TA's fine. PL is NOT. Just had him carry 3 games against me and he's impossible to counter in pub games. Seriously annoying.

God that makes me think back to when he came out and everyone thought he was shit

1) CardinalSins

2) US East

3) Experienced

4) 1 2

This talk about perma bans might actually be a good idea. Some heroes are just plain unfair against new players... Tide can just fuck a team completely, Bounty Hunter is bullshit in semi competent hands, etc.

I'm just saying some ground rules might make it more fun/fair. But I don't care either way really, so up to you guys.

@TobbRobb said:

This talk about perma bans might actually be a good idea. Some heroes are just plain unfair against new players... Tide can just fuck a team completely, Bounty Hunter is bullshit in semi competent hands, etc.

I'm just saying some ground rules might make it more fun/fair. But I don't care either way really, so up to you guys.

I really don't know about this because then it becomes well do we ban pub stomp heroes or what is OP in like pro hands. Then how many do we ban 4, 10, 15 it could do down hill fast. That's what I wanted to capt mode with like 2 older players to help stop stuff like that happening. Like in truth if we going to the point we were going for perm bans we should have done Random Draft. If we see on hero carrying all of the games some thing may have to be done.

@rb_man: Well banning after pro player terms is kind of silly, because no one here is a pro player. But I legitimately think some of the pubstomp ones could end up being unfun.

Oh well, let's just roll and see if something seems off. As said, I'm fine without banned heroes.

I don't plan on participating, but permabanning heroes is just about the dumbest thing. Use your team bans if you don't like playing against a hero; that's what they're for.

1.Steam ID: Mitch0712

2.Server: US EAST

3. Average-Experienced

4. #1 and #3

I'm best with fast acting heroes, I'm all about those Agility heroes! But I can play Support with Intelligence heroes too if need be. I suck with Strength heroes.

Sign me up sounds like a good time.

Steam ID: WadeBrigade

Server: US East

Skill:Average

Role: Most experienced with 2 or 3 but willing to play anything.

Not bad in 4 hours we have got 11 players and 250 views. Which is great at this rate we will have 4-8 teams or even more keep it up.

blommer

EU west

Experienced

1/4

Sign me up:

Steam ID: Superfluous

Server: US East but under 100 ping in EU and US West

Skill: Average

Role: 3/5 though I feel good about anything but 2

Also there's the steam Giant Bomb PC Gaming Group that has its on mumble channel if people don't want to rely solely on steam chat.

Edited for dotabuff: http://dotabuff.com/players/70179767

1.Steam ID: IroN1c

2.Server: EU West

3. Average (I guess? https://dotabuff.com/players/4085697 To me that is average.)

4. 2 or 3. Again just look at https://dotabuff.com/players/4085697 )

Sign me up!

Steam ID: Jukebox Joe

Server: EU West

Skill: New-Average

Role: 2-5, probably better as support since I'm newer but can play a few 2 or 3 position heroes

https://dotabuff.com/players/39791300

Haha

Steam ID: pOke_A_neRd

Server: US East

Skill: New

Role: 1 or 3

Me and a friend will sign up

Steam ID Me: http://steamcommunity.com/id/twigger/

Steam ID Friend: http://steamcommunity.com/id/counterterrorist/

Server US East and West for both of us

Skill level for me is experienced

Skill level for him is average

Roles for me: 2 and 3

Roles for him 1 and 3

Steam info: https://steamcommunity.com/id/Oserotto

Server: US East

Skill: New to Average

Role: 1, 4, and 5 (I guess?)

Steam: mcgrittles_#BASED

Server: US East

Skill: Avergae

Role: 3 or 4

I can't commit for anything but if I am online I can fill a spot for a missing person if needed.

Steam: MrSkeleton

Server: US East, EU east/west

Skill: experienced

Role: 2-5

https://dotabuff.com/players/62376894

Steam: Mageknight

Server: US West (but I'm always playing East, so whatever)

Skill: Experienced

Role: 4/5

ok im in heheh :D

Steamid: Hyst3ri4

Server: US east

Skill: Average

Role: 2 or 5 but can do any

Steamid: eric (im always in the GB channel if you cant figure out which eric I am on steam)
 
Server: US east 
 
Skill: experienced 
 
Role: 1, 4 

Steam ID: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Drrty

Server: US East or West

Skill: Average

Role: 2 & 4 (i'll play anything though)

https://dotabuff.com/players/13023292

This is going great with over 25 people in half a day. We now have 5 teams this is going better then I ever thought we may have over 10 teams. I AM SOOOO HAPPPY FOR ALL DA DOTAS. :D

Steam ID: fireprince96

Server: EU East

Skill: Average

Role: 1 to 5 ( Besides Lycan, Invoker, and to some extent Pudge)

Also, could we have these things happening in the weekends? I guess more people would be available.

I have to agree with everyone saying perma-banning heroes is dumb. Let the only permanent ban be the heroes not yet allowed in Captain's Mode yet.

Also, before I completely commit how much time do we have between teams being assigned and the required number of games ticking up? I think it is a little crazy to expect teams to coordinate and get a good flow if we are assigned a team, and then don't have a week or two to try and get a couple of games in to practice and feel each other out (in the non-sexiest way possible).

@FirePrince: Well the way we are doing it when you have your team and pick your capt they make times to play other teams. There is not set times for the matches of now you just have to play at least one team a week.

@Hungry said:

I have to agree with everyone saying perma-banning heroes is dumb. Let the only permanent ban be the heroes not yet allowed in Captain's Mode yet.

Also, before I completely commit how much time do we have between teams being assigned and the required number of games ticking up? I think it is a little crazy to expect teams to coordinate and get a good flow if we are assigned a team, and then don't have a week or two to try and get a couple of games in to practice and feel each other out (in the non-sexiest way possible).

Like look the hero thing is not going to happen. Unless some thing hell of crazy happens like the Sun goes to a drive in movie. As for the time window after sign ups are over on the 19th teams will be assigned on the 20th at noon EST. So we are planing to to open the league play some were from the 23th - 25th (I will know closer to the end of sign ups). But keep in mind we are doing this for 2 reasons to have some fun and spread DotA 2 all over GB and get more GB players to be more active. I hope that is to your liking. :D

Sure

Hotcheesebandit007

US West

Experienced?

Can play all roles.

I'm pretty much a total noob (only been playing about 2 weeks), but I'm eager to learn from some like-minded duders.

1. bi0nic101
2. EU West
3. Definitely New
4. Not too sure on this one. I've solely been playing Drow as a Carry/Semi-Carry, just while I've been learning the ropes. I understand the different roles (to an extent) but I've only just started messing around with some other heroes.

Played 3 bot games on easy so im basically brand new to this game (although im an avid LoL player, there is major differences)

Figure this is a good way to learn Dota and get experience out of it.

Name: Optix101 (i think)

EU West i guess, never looked but if i haven't changed this then surely EU West.

New

4 or 5 is safest i bet (I play mid in LoL but not once have i done it in Dota)

I would have loved this if it was organized like a year ago. Now I just don't want to play that game anymore.

While i think this is a good idea, in my opinion, the disparity between skills levels is going to be large. Not sure how the balancing and team creation will go, but hopefully it works out.

Steam ID : Systemy

Server : EU West

Skill : Average

Role : 5 and 2, but i can play the other roles fairly well.

@The_Drizzle said:

While i think this is a good idea, in my opinion, the disparity between skills levels is going to be large. Not sure how the balancing and team creation will go, but hopefully it works out.

Yeah I am a little worried about that as well. Considering the average skill level of the people who all played on Saturday I feel like there are some teams that are going to be entirely reliant on how the "best" person on their team plays a position and how they lord over the less experienced players.

King mob on steam, us east.

Skill average. I'm okay at everything but initiators.

@rb_man: sign me up also

Steam ID: XantaKlawz

Server: US East

Skill: Average (as support), New for everything else.

Role: 4 & 5 (but trying to branch out and learn carries these days).

Man this is going even better then I could have hoped in 2 days we have had over 30 sign ups THAT'S 6 WHOLE TEAMS. This is shaping up to be a even greater event then I have dreamed. In truth I thought we would get 2-3 teams 4 at the most. So keep up the good work guys.

This sounds like it could be great fun, count me in.

Steam ID: Indiefinch (Finch in dota)

Server: US W

Skill: Experienced

Role: 2 and 3 are my main, however can play the other roles decently if the team needs it.