The International approaches and we've just released an update that includes predictions, fantasy, supporter bundles, and a chance to prove your skills and win new Immortals and unlock terrains.

But that's not all. Today we're also releasing patch 7.41e. Even that's not everything, though. Dota is a complicated game, and while we greatly enjoy the creativity and diligence of the dedicated players who find intricate and absurd bugs, we also like *fixing* those bugs. So today we're also releasing the Summer Scrub, a huge collection of new features as well as fixes for gameplay and content bugs, ranging from Abaddon's taunt to Zeus's Dota Plus challenge.

The list is too long for this post, so we made a whole page just to list all the changes.

Nearly a year has passed since Team Falcons hoisted the Aegis of Champions as the final team standing in Hamburg. But that was last year's story, and the time has come to turn our thoughts to Shanghai and the crop of competitors who vie to write the tale of this year. All of their battles have brought them to the precipice. The International is just two weeks away.

After a decisive month of intense qualifiers, dominant performances from prior champions, and upset victories from up-and-comers, all sixteen teams have earned their invitations to this year's International.

Now it's time for us to extend an invitation to you.

We've just released an update featuring this year's TI-themed activities and item bundles. Not sure what that means? Keep reading for a handy guide to all the different ways to participate so you can find the content that's most interesting to you.

• I want to directly support my favorite teams and personalities.

With supporter bundles for all sixteen teams and more than a hundred participating event talent, there's never been a better time to support your favorites. In addition to the four primary event languages, this year we're also offering community bundles for WXC Co. (Filipino), NS_ART (Brazilian Portuguese), and Maincast (Ukrainian). 50% of sales from supporter bundles (teams, talent, and community broadcasts) goes directly to the team or talent and 30% goes to the tournament prize pool.

• I want to show off that I supported my favorite team.

Purchasing team supporter bundles of various levels will grant all kinds of things: custom sprays, a special badge for your health bar, custom team emoticons, custom chat wheel lines, and — new this year as a part of the Gold tier — a global effigy. This new building will replace your regular effigy through the end of September, allowing you to show your team support right in your base. Not supportive enough? You can purchase additional supporter levels that will upgrade the appearance of your effigy, including custom effects.

• I'm right about everything. Help me prove it.

Predictions are back: How will the Swiss matches shake out? What about the bracket? Fun fact: Exactly zero have ever gotten the full Swiss stage results correct. Will you be the first this year? Not if you don't get your guesses in before the first match starts (10am CST, Thursday 8/13).

• I'm a huge fan of my favorite team but also I dislike all of their choices and wish I was in charge.

We've got a new take on fantasy this year. We've introduced a new customization point: You. You're the coach, and can now assign custom modifiers to yourself that influence your whole team. We've also updated prefixes, suffixes, and the player drafting rules. You'll draft your perfect team in (mostly) pairs: both supports from one team, the safelaner and offlaner from one team, and then your favorite midlaner.

• I am a Dota player and I'm already assuming I'll be the best at everything. What do I win?

Like last year, awards will be granted to participating players based on their performance relative to everyone else. The Tyrian Regalia treasure is making a royal return with five refashioned Immortal items, exclusively available to the top performing players. New this year is the Terrain Token, which will allow winners to choose one of six returning custom terrains, including Reef's Edge and Immortal Gardens. Look for more information, including reward tiers and lots of details, in the Rewards section of the main Dota 2 menu.

• All of this is great but I did my predictions and my fantasy and supported the teams and talent already. What do I do now?

Good news for you: We also just shipped a new gameplay patch along with a ton of content fixes. Check out the Summer Scrub 2026 page for more details.

Over the past few days we've made various bug fixes and improvements:

Dark Carnival

• Playing Regular and Turbo games now reward Scrap tickets. 6 Scrap can be traded for a Hero ticket of your choice. Regular games reward 2, Turbo games reward 1. Scrap is rewarded regardless of winning or losing.
  
• Seeing Stones can now be earned by playing Co-op Bot Matches on Hard and Unfair difficulties
  
• Candyworks now displays if an offered item is already owned
  
• The Dark Carnival Hero Filter button now shows a tooltip displaying the ticket requirement for the next reward
  
• Fixed the Ticket Trader not working after being unlocked for some players
  
• Fixed Ability Draft and cooperative bot matches not granting Tickets
  
• Fixed Candy Shop Rerolls granted from the Fortune Teller being capped by the weekly maximum
  
• Fixed Pick the Lock area gameplay changing with FPS
  
• Fixed Automaton Personas having the wrong hero chat wheel lines
  

General

• Players no longer need to select both high-demand roles in order to not spend a Role Queue Game for Ranked Roles. Instead, solo players need to select at least one of the high-demand roles in order to not spend a Role Queue Game.
  
• Innate abilities with an Area of Effect now correctly display their range in the world when hovering over the ability
  
• Fixed being able to enter the game without a hero in Captain's Mode if your team has picked a hero that is not available for random selection and no one has selected that hero at the end of the picking phase
  
• Fixed bots going after items near or under enemy towers
  
• Fixed bots getting stuck while dewarding
  
• Fixed being unable to close the in-game Coach dialog
  
• Fixed various server and client crashes
  
• Fixed being unable to spectate league matches
  
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause ability charges to get stuck for abilities with an Aghanim's Scepter upgrade when repeatedly dropping and picking up the Aghanim's Scepter
  
• Fixed recipes in stash automatically combining when receiving a shard from killing Tormentor
  
• Fixed Tower Glyph of Fortification Multishot attacks incorrectly having True Strike
  
• Fixed Dark Carnival Pies showing which hero is the real one versus an illusion
  
• Fixed sources of cleave benefitting from spell lifesteal
  
• Fixed Granite Golem healing more than expected with its aura
  
• Fixed Prowler's Shaman Desecrate decreasing more than the intended amount of base amor
  
• Fixed Wildwing Ripper's Toughness Aura not functioning as an aura
  

Items

• Soul Ring's temporary mana now displays as a separate segment in the mana bar while it's available
  
• Fixed Conjurer's Catalyst not working if acquired while dead
  
• Fixed Conjurer's Catalyst Spellover not being affected by Area of Effect bonuses
  
• Fixed Gem of True Sight radius not updating dynamically with Area of Effect changing values
  
• Fixed Hand of Midas proccing Conjurer's Catalyst's Spellover
  
• Fixed Harmonizer not considering abilities with charges on cooldown
  
• Fixed Ironwood Nut giving the wrong primary stat bonus for certain heroes
  
• Fixed Ironwood Nut's bonus stats sometimes not displaying properly
  

Heroes

• Fixed Alchemist's Unstable Concoction not interacting correctly with Grimstoke's Soulbind
  
• Fixed Arc Warden Tempest Double not copying Ironwood Nut permanent bonus stats
  
• Fixed Arc Warden's Flux with Aghanim's Scepter having a brief window where the target is no longer silenced if one Flux ends on the target while a second Flux is still active on the target
  
• Fixed Arc Warden's Runic Infusion sometimes not immediately calculating the bonus stats when activating a Power Rune
  
• Fixed Bane permanently losing Nightmare if he casts the ability on a debuff immune unit that then attacks a unit that has been Nightmared by Rubick
  
• Fixed Bane's Enfeeble affecting multiple enemies if the enemies were right on top of each other
  
• Fixed Centaur Warrunner's Hoof Stomp triggering magic stick before the ability has finished casting
  
• Fixed Centaur's Retaliate working on reflected damage
  
• Fixed Crystal Maiden's Glacier Guard triggering when using the Twin Gates
  
• Fixed Doom's Devour Aghanim's Shard upgrade not correctly granting the +15% Area of Effect bonuses to stolen creep abilities
  
• Fixed Ember Spirit's Fire Remnant's Shard Upgrade tooltip not specifying a Fire Remnant is spawned when Ember Spirit dies
  
• Fixed Faceless Void's level 20 talent displaying the wrong value for the bonus attack speed given during Chronosphere
  
• Fixed Hoodwink's Bushwhack not always applying the correct amount of total damage
  
• Fixed Invoker's Quas and Exort Shard upgrades not correctly applying on Rubick
  
• Fixed Io's level 15 talent "+50% Spirits Damage" having incorrect text in the talent tree
  
• Fixed Kunkka's level 10 talent slowing enemies via sources of cleave other than Tidebringer
  
• Fixed Lina gaining Fiery Soul Stacks when proccing Maelstrom or Mjollnir under Largo's Croak of Genius buff
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear immediately dying when resummoned while a wraith due to Wraith King's Aghanim's Scepter
  
• Fixed Disgraced Regalia appearing in Spirit Bear's backpack instead of neutral slot when dying with Divine Regalia
  
• Fixed Spirit Bear getting his Divine Regalia back if he dies independent of Lone Druid
  
• Fixed Monkey King's Changing of the Guard being usable while Taunted
  
• Fixed Muerta's Supernatural having the incorrect number of max stacks
  
• Fixed Necrophos's Reaper Scythe gaining permanent stacks when killing illusions
  
• Fixed Oracle's False Promise Damage Indicator visual effects not properly calculating lethal damage
  
• Fixed Oracle's False Promise Damage Indicator visual effects not properly showing the heal visual effects if the target is going to be healed when the effect ends
  
• Fixed Oracle's level 25 talent "Fortune's End constantly Dispels" incorrectly piercing Debuff Immunity when affecting enemies
  
• Fixed Phantom Lancer Juxtapose Shard blocking creep camps permanently
  
• Fixed Primal Beast being able to damage enemies with Onslaught twice when queuing the Onslaught and stop commands after a forced movement during Pulverize
  
• Fixed Razor's Storm Surge Aghanim's Shard upgrade not always correctly applying
  
• Fixed Rubick not spawning an urnaconda when stealing it from Shadow Shaman
  
• Fixed Shadow Fiend being able to stack infinite souls using Feast of Souls with an Octarine Core
  
• Fixed Slardar's Corrosive Haze remaining duration being reduced when re-applied by Slithereen Crush with Aghanim's Shard upgrade
  
• Fixed Sniper's Keen Scope not being disabled by Break
  
• Fixed Storm Spirit's Overload ability with Aghanim's Shard applying 6 sources of damage instead of 3 if activating while already having an Overload buff
  
• Fixed Tinker's Keen Conveyance at level 3 sometimes targeting friendly heroes instead of the fountain when the ability was self cast
  
• Fixed Vengeful Spirit's Vengeance Aura self-bonus sometimes getting lost after using Manta Style
  
• Fixed Warlock's level 15 talent "+8 Upheaval Attack Speed per second on Allies" causing Eldritch Summoning to create Imps when allies die
  
• Fixed Winter Wyvern's Cold Embrace with Aghanim's Shard casting a Splinter Blast on enemies if the enemies were right on top of each other
  
• Fixed Wraith King's Vampiric Spirit not turning Wraith King into a wraith if he levels up at the same time as dying
  

Don't you hate it when you wake up in a prison car with no memory of how you got there and, worse, no way to escape, only to discover you've been captured by an evil puppet-man as part of some dark bargain with an ancient world-conquering evil? We've all been there.

We're pulling back the curtain on the Dark Carnival, a new ongoing event in the Dota universe. This first part, "Midnight Run", lets you navigate Legion Commander and Hoodwink through a massive, fully-voiced Dota story featuring a spider-legged convoy of deadly robots, heartstopping secrets, and unique rewards.

Today's update features five all-new Automaton Personas (mechanical reimaginings of classic Dota heroes with new animations, effects, icons, and more), 20 new hero sets (some in a brand new treasure, and some that can only be earned by exploring the map and story), and much more. There's a comic if you're the kind of person who likes backstory.

But if, much like Legion Commander and Hoodwink themselves, you'd prefer to be thrown into the action without a lot of pesky memories of how you wound up in Ringmaster's prison train, the first stage of Midnight Run is now live in-game and free for all players. This is just the beginning: There are plenty of surprises in Midnight Run, and we're just getting started.

Patch 7.41d is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.

In addition, we've recently addressed the following issues:

• Fixed Greevils not spawning their equipped effects
  
• Fixed Earthshaker's Planetfall Arcana not tracking combos and combo damage properly
  
• Fixed right click on Dota Labs Overlay Map not working when "Auto-Repeat Right Mouse" is enabled
  
• Fixed Bottle with a stored Rune being able to be moved in and out of the backpack
  
• Fixed Harmonizer not considering abilities with charges on cooldown
  
• Fixed Elder Titan's Astral Spirit's movement speed not taking Wind Lace into account
  
• Fixed Elder Titan's Echo Stomp shard not swapping places with Astral Spirit if he is being moved by another ability when the stomp goes off
  
• Fixed Invoker not receiving an Aghanim's Blessing from Alchemist if Alchemist casts Aghanim's Scepter on Invoker when his main inventory is full but the backpack had space
  
• Fixed Alchemist being able to repeatedly give Invoker Aghanim's Blessings if Invoker hasn't chosen his Aghanim's Scepter upgrade
  
• Fixed Invoker not correctly being refunded for his Aghanim's Blessing if Invoker has not selected an Aghanim's Scepter upgrade and Alchemist casts Aghanim's Scepter on him
  
• Fixed Spirit Bear's permanently consumed items not counting towards Lone Druid's net worth
  
• Fixed Spirit Breaker permanently changing teams when he reflects Venomancer's Noxious Plague with Lotus Orb and then casts Planar Pocket on Venomancer before Noxious Plague spreads, then after it spreads to a neutral creep Venomancer uses Helm of the Dominator on that creep
  
• Fixed Venomancer being able to Transmute Spirit Breaker with Hand of Midas through the same process
  
• Fixed Wraith King's Vampiric Spirit not turning Wraith King into a wraith if he levels up at the same time as dying
  
• Ability Draft: Fixed Forge Spirit starting at too high a level
  
• Ability Draft: Fixed Brewmaster's old Aghanim's Scepter being available
  

In just a few short months, the finest Dota teams in the world will gather in Shanghai to battle for the Aegis of Champions in front of thousands of cheering fans. We've announced the official team invitations, and now we'd like to extend one to you. If you want to be one of those fans cheering live at the arena, it's time to get ready: ticket sales for The International 2026 kick off on June 10th at 2pm China Standard Time.

The in-arena action runs from August 20 - 23 at the SPD Bank Oriental Sports Center, with two ticket options available: single-day tickets for any day, or two-day bundles covering Thursday/Friday and Saturday/Sunday. All seating this year will be assigned, with no General Admission options available.

Ticket prices vary based on day and section, so check out the full chart of options below:



There are two purchase paths this year: one for fans purchasing domestically within China, and another for purchasing internationally.

China Domestic Sales
Chinese domestic ticket sales will be available through Damai or the Perfect World app, and will require a Chinese ID to complete any sale.

Once ticket sales begin on June 10th at 2pm (China Standard Time), the first twenty minutes will serve as a priority purchase period for domestic tickets. During this period, purchases are restricted to active Dota players in China who have played at least ten games in within the last six months. (To be eligible for priority purchase, please verify your account status in advance by the end of Wednesday, June 3, 2026.)

From 2:30pm (CST) onward, domestic tickets will be available for purchase to all Chinese customers.

International Sales
For fans purchasing outside of China, ticket sales will commence on June 10th at 2:30pm (CST) via Trip.com.

FAQ

How does seating work?
Tickets are purchased for a specific seating region (see chart above). After your purchase, you will be assigned a specific seat in the region you selected. All seats are assigned and reserved. There are no general admission tickets or seats.

What is the ticket transfer policy?
Tickets cannot be transferred, gifted, or resold. Tickets can only be used by the names for which they were purchased.

What do I need to purchase tickets internationally?
Trip.com requires an account and a valid passport for international ticket purchases. You can create your account and submit attendee documentation before tickets go on sale.

Can I purchase tickets for my group?
Yes, but note that the ticketing platforms limit each individual account to a maximum of two tickets per day. Multiple transactions may be required depending on the size of your group and how many days you wish to attend. As noted above, each attendee/ticket holder must have proper identification in order to complete the checkout process.

Do I need to bring anything else besides my tickets to enter the event?
Event entrance requires a valid photo ID matching the name on the ticket.

What is the ticket refund policy?
For China domestic ticket sales, please see the Damai refund policy. For international ticket sales, please see the Trip.com refund policy.

Throughout the year, Dota teams around the world battle to prove themselves worthy of direct invitation to The International — and a chance to compete for the Aegis of Champions on the world's biggest stage. Teams that secure invites can begin to focus on their final preparations, while the remaining contenders face one last chance to fight their way in.

Direct Invites
With less than three months until we raise the curtains on the big show, we’re excited to extend these seven teams invitations to Shanghai, China to compete in The International 2026:

• Aurora Gaming
  
  Egor "Nightfall" Grigorenko
  Rafli "Mikoto" Fathur Rahman
  Wei Shen "Ws`" Chung
  Myroslav "Mira" Kolpakov
  Oleh "kaori" Medvedok
  
  
  
• BoomBoys
  
  Ilia "Kiritych~" Ulianov
  Danil "gpk~" Skutin
  Matvei "MieRo`" Vasiunin
  Vitalie "Save-" Melnic
  Vladislav "Kataomi`" Semenov
  
  
  
• Team Falcons
  
  Oliver "Skiter" Lepko
  Stanislav "Malr1ne" Potorak
  Ammar "ATF" Alassaf
  Andreas "Cr1t-" Nielsen
  Jingjun "Sneyking" Wu
  
  
  
• Team Liquid
  
  Michael "m1CKe" Vu
  Michał "Nisha" Jankowski
  Marcus "Ace" Christensen
  Samuel "Boxi" Svahn
  Erik "tOfu" Engel
  
  
  
• Tundra Esports
  
  Ivan "Pure" Moskalenko
  Bozhidar "bzm" Bogdanov
  Neta "33" Shapira
  Matthew "Ari" Walker
  Matthew "Whitemon" Filemon
  
  
  
• Xtreme Gaming
  
  Chunyu "Ame" Wang
  Jin Xiang "NothingToSay" Cheng
  Jing "Xxs" Lin
  Linsen "fy" Xu
  Jian Wei "xNova" Yap
  
  
  
• Team Yandex
  
  Alimzhan "医者watson" Islambekov
  Ilya "CHIRA_JUNIOR" Chirtsov
  Dmitrii "DM" Dorokhin
  Martin "Saksa" Sazdov
  Arman "Malady" Orazbayev
  
  

Regional Qualifiers
The seven teams above have already earned invitations, which means there are still nine slots available at TI, just waiting for the squads that can survive the crucible of Regional Qualifiers. This year, we've merged the Eastern and Western Europe qualifiers into one single European qualifier with four advancement slots. Check out the full schedule below.

• China, June 15-18 (2 slots)
  
  Vici Gaming
  Roar Gaming
  Yakutou Brothers
  Team Resilience
  (+4 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  
  
• South America, June 15-19 (1 slot)
  
  LGD Gaming
  PlayTime
  Estar Backs
  Red Hot Chili Pibble
  Amaru Gaming
  Hokori
  (+4 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  
  
• Southeast Asia, June 19-23 (1 slot)
  
  REKONIX
  OG
  Execration
  Team Nemesis
  GLYPH
  (+5 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  
  
• Europe, June 21-28 (4 slots)
  
  TEAM VISION
  Team Spirit
  MOUZ
  Natus Vincere
  Nigma Galaxy
  Virtus.pro
  enjoy
  Power Rangers
  (+8 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  
  
• North America, June 24-26 (1 slot)
  
  GamerLegion
  (+3 teams from Open Qualifiers)
  
  

Once qualifiers wrap up on June 28, we'll have the full tournament field decided, and the next stop is Shanghai. Group Stage kicks off August 13 - 16 with a three-day, five-round Swiss bracket, followed by five elimination matches played on Sunday. The eight remaining teams bring the competition into the arena August 20 - 23, where the Aegis of Champions awaits.

Patch 7.41c is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.

In addition, over the last few days we've addressed the following issues:

• Fixed illusions not duplicating the correct level of neutral item enchantment
  
• Fixed Bloodstone's Bloodpact having a superfluous stack counter
  
• Fixed Conjurer's Catalyst getting into a state where it never triggers
  
• Fixed Consecrated Wraps having varying sell cost based on how many charges are active
  
• Fixed Crella's Crozier Rite of Rumusque healing for more than intended when redirecting heal from targets with other sources of health restoration
  
• Fixed Crella's Crozier not working on health regeneration
  
• Fixed Crella's Crozier working on overheals
  
• Fixed Jidi Pollen Bag's tooltip overstating the damage it deals
  
• Fixed Refresher Shard's mana cost not showing on the item icon
  
• Fixed Refresher Orb and Refresher Shard sometimes not sharing a cooldown
  
• Fixed Abaddon's Withering Mist creating particles when a unit dies
  
• Fixed Ancient Apparition's Chilling Touch consuming more mana when triggering Specialist's Array or Hydra's Breath.
  
• Fixed Ancient Apparition's Bone Chill with Aghanim's Scepter not updating to the Scepter values until the Bone Chill per hero level interval was achieved
  
• Fixed Axe's Battle Hunger with Level 10 Talent sometimes permanently granting Axe bonus movement speed
  
• Fixed Bristleback being able to use Quill Spray while channeling if it is on Autocast
  
• Fixed Centaur Warrunner's Hoof Stomp not being treated as an ability cast by other abilities (Pugna's Nether Ward, Silencer's Last Word, etc.)
  
• Fixed Chaos Knight's innate not being duplicated to his illusions
  
• Fixed Clinkz losing health when tread swapping while having bonus health from Death Pact
  
• Fixed Clockwerk's allies sometimes getting stuck inside his cogs
  
• Fixed Dark Willow's Bedlam displaying a cast range
  
• Fixed Dragon Knight gaining flying movement with Aghanim's Scepter before level 4 Dragon Form
  
• Fixed Earth Spirit's Enchant Remnant not being affected by cooldown reduction when cast on a stone remnant.
  
• Fixed Enigma's Eidolons not having +-4 damage spread
  
• Fixed Kazurai Katana being affected by status resistance
  
• Fixed some instances where Kazurai Katana could unexpectedly fail
  
• Fixed Kunkka's Admiral's Rum having the incorrect hangover duration when applied from Kunkka's Ghostship
  
• Fixed Lich's Frost Shield healing Lich's Ice Spire past its max health
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear counting as a Creep when attacking Undying's Tombstone
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Inscribed Gem "Entangling Claws Duration" not tracking properly
  
• Fixed Enchanter's Bauble not working on Lone Druid's Spirit Bear
  
• Fixed Lone Druid's Spirit Bear being able to move items to stash while dead by manually dragging items into the stash
  
• Fixed Mars trying to block the ground if targeting his own position with Bulwark
  
• Fixed Mars God's Rebuke not having its targeting reticule match the actual area of effect
  
• Fixed Meepo clones not properly syncing cooldown of multiple copies of the same item
  
• Fixed Meepo clones being able to use Megameepo
  
• Fixed Meepo's Divided We Stand being able to clone Roshan's Banner
  
• Fixed Mirana's Celestial Quiver not appearing in damage breakdowns or appearing to update its damage in regards to spell amplification
  
• Fixed being able to track Monkey King through Changing of the Guard with pings or click commands.
  
• Fixed Muerta's Spectral Slug debuff incorrectly visually appearing to be applying ethereal to debuff immune heroes when they are not ethereal
  
• Fixed Muerta's Supernatural stacks lost upon Death rounding up instead of down
  
• Fixed Outworld Destroyer's Astral Imprisonment hiding a debuff immune hero's health bar
  
• Fixed Phoenix's Dying Light not having increased radius with certain AoE increasing items
  
• Fixed Rubick not gaining Faceless Void's Reverse Time Walk even when he have scepter
  
• Fix Slark's Shadow Dance not displaying the duration of the buff in the buff bar
  
• Fixed Sniper's Headshot not slowing while Take Aim is active
  
• Fixed Sven's Warcry showing a "Warcry Aura" on nearby allies that doesn't do anything when he has Aghanim's Shard
  
• Fixed crash when Tidehunter eats a fish with a completely full inventory
  
• Fix Tidehunter's Leviathan's Catch not working if Tidehunter ate a fish while stunned.
  
• Fixed heroes gaining health after Tinker's laser with Aghanim's Scepter expires
  
• Fixed Treant Protector being able to maintain Nature's Guise invisibility when casting Nature's Guise and leaving the trees in the same frame
  
• (Ability Draft) Fixed Undying being able to refresh Ceaseless Dirge with Tinker's Rearm
  
• Fixed Ursa's Enrage visual effects lingering longer than the ability duration
  
• Fixed Venomancer's Snakebite dealing damage multiple times on triggered attacks
  
• Fixed Winter Wyvern's Winter's Curse causing targets with Chipped Vest to damage Winter Wyvern during the curse
  
• Fixed Winter Wyvern's Winter's Curse causing all Blade Mails to stop working during the duration of the cast
  
• Fixed Winter Wyvern's Winter's Curse not increasing its duration when enemy illusions enter the area or an enemy entered the curse very close to the time it was created
  
• Fixed being able to sometimes use some items during Winter Wyvern's Winter's Curse if the duration was extended
  
• Fixed Winter's Curse status labels not updating appropriately if the duration was extended
  
• Fixed Zeus's Nimbus visually showing the incorrect number of pips for how many hero hits it takes to destroy.
  
• Fixed Progressive Refinement not working for SFM
  

The International is getting closer. After many years, Dota's ultimate proving ground is returning to China and returning to August, which is now just a few short months away.

In preparation, we've updated the registration process for any teams interested in participating in The International this year.

All interested teams must sign up through the Dota pro team registration site. A manager must first register their team, and then each of the players must join individually. As part of team registration, a team representative must agree with the team participation agreement for this year's event. This agreement requires that teams and players abide by certain rules, including treating their players fairly and equally, and can be viewed during the registration process, as well as here.

Teams must complete the registration process by 2pm PDT on Monday, May 18th to be eligible for a direct invitation to The International or any Regional Qualifier.

We'll be back later this month with more details, including team invitations, qualifier details, and information on ticket sales. The final push to reach Dota's biggest stage is about to begin.

Patch 7.41b is out now and you can check out the patch notes here.