The International, Valve's $18 million Dota 2 tourney, disrupted by DDoS attack
04.08.2015
It's day two of The International 2015, Valve's massive $18 million Dota 2 tournament, and play has ground to a halt in the very first match of the very first round due to a crippling distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).
Just when things started to heat up in match one of the best-of-three competition between Evil Geniuses and compLexity Gaming, the game was suddenly struck by lag and paused soon thereafter. The tourney has been on hold for over 45 minutes now. Fortunately, analysts are filling in the void on the livestream, and host Paul "Redeye" Chaloner just stated on-air that the delay is definitively due to a DDoS attack.
Which, of course, begs the question as to why Valve didn't figure out a way to have The International's games travel over a dedicated local network, but hey, that's neither here nor there. Hopefully Valve gets some better Internet shields in place before Saturday's grand championship.
Brad Chacos