The Weekly Courier7.07c, Na'Vi qualifies for Major, VGJ.Storm to go to Macau
Happy Weekend!
7.07c addresses Tiny & AM
Just last week, Valve released a patch, greatly improving Tiny's and Pangolier's viability and thus win rate. Tiny has likely grown too strong at this point, with a win rate of about 57% in the 5k+ bracket. Both him and Anti-Mage have received nerfs, most notably to their early game. Other notable heroes that have been nerfed include popular picks in the pro meta, such as Beastmaster, Brewmaster or Winter Wyvern. Notable buffed heroes include Windranger & Naga Siren.
You can find the detailed patch notes here.
Na'Vi qualifies for DreamLeague Major, OG fall short
The qualifiers for the DreamLeague Major are coming to a close with only South-East Asia remaining. In Europe, 
Team Secret grab themselves first place and 
Natus Vincere have managed to qualify for their first Major participation since the Manila Major. 
Team Liquid and 
Virtus.pro round out the top 4, meaning that 4 times Major champion 
OG have failed to qualify for the second Major in a row.
In North-America, 
Shopify Rebellion secured their spot at the Major after a convincing run and the Chinese representative will be TI7 runner-up 
Newbee.
EG directly invited to Summit
North-American powerhouse Shopify Rebellion has been directly invited to The Summit 8 as the 9th team. The tournament will feature a unique 9-team system, as it will split teams in three groups of three teams. All groups will be played round-robin style and instead of a traditional Bo1 or Bo3 format, teams will play each other in so called "3 Game Series", where every game win awards a point. The highest seed of every group moves onto the semi-finals and the 3 second placed teams of every group, as well as the 3rd placed team with the highest amount of points will face each other in a single elimination, Bo3 Wild Card playoff to determine the 4th semi-finalist.
The original announcement for the format can be found here.
Ranked Season launch postponed for a week
The first season of our new matchmaking system will begin on November 22nd.
— DOTA 2 (@DOTA2) November 16, 2017
Together with 7.07, Valve announced the beginning of seasonal ranked, a system in which players would have to re-calibrate their MMR every 6 months and would be awarded medals based on their ranks. The exact details surrounding the seasons have yet to be disclosed, but Valve now announced that the launch for the first season will be postponed until November 22nd.
VGJ.Storm qualify for first Minor, MDL Macau
MDL Macau, the second Chinese Minor of the season, has concluded all of its qualifiers. Last weekend, LFY secured their spot by taking the DPL Season 4 LAN title. In the following days, teams from across the world played for their spots at the event. TNC, OG, Infamous, and Natus Vincere managed to qualify in their respective regions. In North-America, newly founded 
VGJ Storm will look to compete at their first high profile LAN event. For many, it is the first premier LAN event attendance ever, for other players like Sneyking or Ritsu it's the first event in years.
Two more spots have to be filled, both are however direct invites to the event, which have yet to be announced.
Fnatic win Summit qualifier, beat Mineski
Ascent Esports, who recently replaced Xcalibur with Abed, have promptly won their first qualifier. Taking down Mineski 3-2 in the Summit 8 qualifier, Fnatic have secured their third participation at a Pro Circuit event, though the previous two engagements were due to visa issues of other teams. The Summit 8 has thus completed its qualifiers. 
compLexity Gaming, Virtus.pro, 
Team Kinguin and 
Sacred will join invited teams EG and OG, as well as previously determined Chinese qualifier winners 
LGD Gaming and 
OpTic Gaming.
You can follow their run here.
Tournament Overview:
- DreamLeague has one more spot to fill. The South-East Asian qualifier is set to conclude this weekend, as Fnatic, Mineski and TNC will battle it out for the last Major spot.
- The Perfect World Masters will begin this Sunday. Ten teams, namely LGD, LFY, VG, Newbee, Secret, SG, coL, Kinguin, Vega Squadron & Mineski, will compete for 300 QP and $300,000. Additionally, the winner will be directly invited to the DAC 2018.
- Qualifiers for Captain's Draft Season 4 have concluded. compLexity Gaming, OG,
Midas Club , 
Vici Gaming, 
Mineski and 
Team Empire have managed to qualify for the second Minor to be hosted in the US. Invited teams EG and Secret round out the line-up of team. The event is set to take place from Jan 4th-7th in Washington, DC. - WESG's European finals are set to take place next week. Over the course of four days, starting on November 22nd, 20 teams from Europe will compete for 12 spots in the global grand finals. Prominent players at the LAN event include streamer and former pro-player SingSing as well as Alliance's co-owner Loda.
Also Noteworthy
- Team Liquid's Miracle was voted the "PC Player of the Year" at the Esports Industry Awards.
- The Clip of the week goes to compLexity Gaming's Chessie, whose 3-hero Chronosphere sets up a teamwipe and the team's victory.
Thanks for catching up with us. We hope you enjoy your weekend.
Tiny RIP
Hey guys, here is TA bug
Idk why but psionic traps now HASTES enemy by 30 percent
Its a bug
VOLVO PLS FIX IT
CHECK THIS
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Morph ulti is becoming at least usable, still a pretty poor skill for him, IMO, but now with occasional play potential, and you can even transform to use a stun or something early on instead of just draining down all your mana.
me to icefrog:
Do you like my WW?
icefrog:
No. I hate it.
Seriously though, some heroes are just like hated. Like, every hero which is not a strong core is just useless in pubs. Hated heroes can win only by unfair tactics like constantly grouping up on 1 guy and warding-dewarding, which is not what i came for.
doh few more days
"7.07B ADDRESSES TINY & AM" Should be "c" not "b". Fix typo.
spectre now back to square one now lol.
got 50 desolate dmg but pierces spell immune
really bored of this game
fixed typo (and clip not showing)
Fix clip
Rip my poor tiny T_T
My favorite tiny RIP.
I play on 3 t mmr and if on 3t mmr he have 47 percent win,after one week it be about 40 percent...
The tree grab tweak was okay. It made a value point in tree grab worth it, which means you can still go AvaToss Tiny in early game as opposed to the straight up carry build the pros have been doing.
The really head-scratching part was the massive damage reduction to Grow and the weird (at least for me) addition of armor. I always thought the whole concept of Tiny was that without armor he was an enticing target, but he made up for it with massive attack damage and burst potential. Now the attack advantage is gone and even with the cleave bonus from the tree there's still a 5-second downtime enemies can exploit. 5 armor isn't enough protection for early game, and 15 is inconsequential once you've farmed up your AC (which is core on Tiny anyway).
Are you fuckin serious? 10 teams in PW, and you name 9? Really? It is really sad how dotabuff is shitting on Kinguin, since it's top4 Europe team
IMO the hero that really got nerfed is Meepo, even more so than Tiny/AM.
whops, left out Kinguin by mistake (I had them in the summit lineup and thought I also had c/p them into PWM, my bad
@ИЛЬЮШИН
DotA 2 is a team game, not pve :)