Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Dota 2 team dumped from tournament for cheating with a programmable mouse

<em>The Razer Naga, a mouse designed specifically for MOBA games like Dota 2.</em>

Peru’s Thunder Predator Dota 2 team has been ignominiously dismissed from the qualifiers for Valve’s The International 8 tournament later this summer, which is likely to accrue a total prize pool well in excess of $20 million. At issue has been the use of a programmable mouse by the team’s “carry” player, Atun, which the qualifier organizers have deemed to have given him an unfair advantage. You might recall that Razer likes to jokingly promote its gaming gear with the tagline “gain the unfair advantage,” and that’s exactly what Atun did, by programming macro commands into his Razer mouse using the Razer Synapse configuration tool.

An exhaustive Reddit post on the matter details and provides evidence for the allegations — which primarily...

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