Year come and gone. On this Chinese new year, we get a new event, Year of The Beast Brawl.

WHAT IS THE YEAR BEAST BRAWL?
The Year Beast Brawl is like a normal match of All-Pick Dota, except that each team now has a powerful helper: their very own Year Beast. Every 5 minutes during the battle the Year Beasts will appear, charging down the lanes toward the opposing team. Use your Ability Points to manipulate and modify your Year Beast, helping it destroy the enemy's ancient. Ability Points are gained in numerous ways throughout the New Bloom Festival.

HOW TO JOIN THE YEAR BEAST BRAWL
The Year Beast Brawl is only available to join during 10-minute periods, which will occur randomly a few times each day. A countdown timer will appear an hour before the start of each Brawl, allowing you time to assemble your friends and prepare. Once the Brawl becomes active, all players who choose to join a match during those 10 minutes will enter a Brawl. Rankings are not affected by Year Beast Brawls.

NEW BLOOM PRIZES BEASTLY REWARDS
Those who are victorious in the Year Beast Brawl are guaranteed to earn an item set every time, as well as a commemorative trophy to track their Brawl wins. All players who brave the Brawl, win or lose, will be given a handful of Ability Points to add to their Pool to help them in the next Brawl. Rewards earned from the Year Beast Brawl cannot be traded, but are giftable.


Join our discussion here for strategies: http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/D2SEAReddit/discussions/0/611698195153452022/

P.S. If you haven't get the guild invite, you can add me here or others here and send me some naggings. I will definitely send you an invite.

Just contact us and we will send the invites! Hit this post:

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/D2SEAReddit/discussions/0/613940477645351454

Also we got a weekly friendly captain's mode league organized by /u/Ragnarok!

Get the info here: http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/D2SEAReddit/discussions/0/613940477734381035/

See you guys (and girls, if we have any). Have fun!

Hey guys, we have a plan to make some friendly in-house leagues tournaments for fun. Help us with your ideas! Go here if you're interested: http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/D2SEAReddit/discussions/0/613940477734381035/

It will be fun!

Don't miss Aui_2000's replay analysis. He gave a lot of good tricks. Get it before twitch delete the VOD. It's still a gold, even if Aui seemed sleepy and hungry.

/r/dota2 Thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/2ko368/giff_replay_hopefully_i_can_help_you_improve/

Twitch VOD: http://www.twitch.tv/aui_2000/b/583103014

To download the VOD, you can use Twitch video tool: http://www.twitchtools.com/video-download.php (around 2.8GB for 3 hours)

Since it seems there are a lot of support players here, I'll post it. A really good theory on support plays. Kind of hard to be applied to real games, but a fun read nonetheless.

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/07b6zl188dslooi/Art%20of%20Support.pdf?dl=0

Liquid Doto: http://www.liquiddota.com/forum/dota-2-strategy/470167-the-art-of-support-official-e-book-release

/r/Dota2 thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/2ko80w/the_art_of_support_free_ebook_released/