Dota 2 The International 2015 Tournament Delayed by DDOS Attack

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Games resume after 3 hours of waiting around

The International 2015 is a Dota 2 tournament sponsored by Valve that, this year, comes with a $18 million / €16.6 million prize pot.

According to VentureBeat's reporting and tweets of various people in the audience, this year's edition has been set back for three hours due to a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack.

While in the past most games came bundled with a LAN mode that allowed anyone to enjoy them in multiplayer mode with their friends, nowadays most titles, even if they have something similar, still need an online connection to connect to various game resource servers.

Because of this, almost any modern game is susceptible to DDOS attacks, regardless of whether the brunt of the attack falls on their own connection or on the main game servers.

The tournament was delayed, not stopped

Exactly this happened at this year's The International tournament, where hackers have put Dota's servers under a DDOS, delaying the start of games for about three hours.

According to Brad Chacos of PCWorld, the attack hit "when things started to heat up in match one of the best-of-three competition between Evil Geniuses and compLexity Gaming."

As with rain delays in tennis, on-scene commentators filled in the gap with useless non-sense, team presentations, and various video mixes, keeping true to the saying that "e-sports is real sports."

ArsTechnica has also noted that the event's Internet provider has gone missing from their Twitter account, after previously promoting the event in any way someone could barely find it acceptable without calling it spam.

As a side note, there are a few interesting Reddit threads you can check out on game DDOSing, along with a sad case where a League of Legends team worked two years to reach a big tournament, and after a DDOS attack crippled their connection, they were forced to forfeit their match.

Today: DDOS leading to forced forfeit, lag on LAN, meta chaning patch before the most important tournament. #EsportsIsRealSports — Wildhawk (@wildhawklol) August 4, 2015

@JeffGrubb The commentators at the arena said so on-screen. Not sure if the stream is up to see it out in the world, but they said it here. — Steven Strom (@stevenstrom) August 4, 2015

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