Hey The Fresh Prince, you'll ant to hop into our Teamspeak server to get involved, just find a busy channel and ask to party up! (voice.dotanoobs.com)

Hey p-walker, hopefully you hop into our teamspeak server soon so we can play one together! voice.dotanoobs.com

Despite our previous efforts to ward off kitchen spam and link-bots in general on our forum board, the barrage of junk posts and fake user accounts has continued. Today, I've taken another few steps to ward off these evil bastards:

• Added a CAPTCHA to the registration page - This won't affect any of you already registered with the board, but any new members will be required to fill in one of those pesky CAPTCHA images. We hoped to avoid this, but if it helps I think it's worth it.
• Activated Bad Behavior - a plugin for the board meant to stop these malicious spam bots.

Community Question - Should we consolidate the board and cut out some of the unused forums? (e.g. Drafting and Strategy), come say hello on Teamspeak and let me know what you think!

This is exactly how i feel! Thank you for the input. There will likely some downsizing in the near future

Sadly, it seems the bots were unphased by both the Bad Behavior script and the new CAPTCHA. I've added a dota(noobs) related question to the registration form now, we'll see if that gets us anywhere

Well the time is upon us, and dates for The International 4 are officially posted. It's earlier in the year and a tad more expensive this time around, but I think I'm still in for the trip. Tickets go on sale on Friday, and I will be trying to buy a few at least to have reserved.

Anyone else considering making the trip to Seattle? Let me know!

Doobs Coming to TI4
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•  UnoPolak
• Llamas
• mhk_
•  binaryatrocity
• VodkaSurprise
• orbnhoj
• Bandit
• Bowties
• Gotham
  
• Forstycup
  
• Japanties
• BTSflux
• vendetta21
• chibionos
• mhk_

We already have a bigger crowd than last year, and I don't doubt a few others will be there I haven't heard about yet (will Sponge and/or Essem be back as media? I will reach out to them)

Sounds fantastic, welcome to DotaNoobs and lets game it up!

Floor seats are tempting but I'm assuming most people coming will be in GA, so I'll stick to that so I can sit with the Doobs crowd. We'll appreciate all of your Floor Seat stories in our off time though

We will be waiting patiently and discussing actively as we try to buy tickets in our IRC channel on Friday, so feel free to hop in and join in! (you should all be there 24/7 anyway, get on it)

Anyway it should be a blast, looking forward to July!

Awesome! Everyone report back once you have your ticket purchased and are good to go, I'll update the top post with everyone who is confirmed after today.

Hey lunkers! Welcome to DotaNoobs. Hopefully I'll catch you on the Teamspeak soon!

Hey rrwblack! Welcome to the community. Be sure to check out the Teamspeak, easiest way to get into some games with us.

i r xcite

Have you brought and appropriate sacrifice?

Sacrifice accepted, welcome to the community!

Hey Aero! Welcome to the best game on the planet. Be sure to hop in Teamspeak and look for a group, I'll keep an eye out for you!

Welcome welcome! This board has been pretty quiet lately but all the action happens on Teamspeak (ts3server://voice.dotanoobs.com) - be sure to stop in and say hello!

Hey! Nice to meet you Solon001. There are at least a few of us hanging out in Teamspeak on any given day, so please hop in there and say hello, be happy to play a few bot games with you. ts3server://voice.dotanoobs.com

Look at this kid, gtfo Welcome aboard, be in teamspeak moar!

Offtopic chat, instaban. /me charges his ban-laser

Sounds great, Orb and I got a place just across the street from KeyArena, and we will certainly be looking to hit the bars a few nights after games are over. I'll try to stay on Steam Chat while in Seattle, but maybe closer to July we can create a private steam group and swap contact info.

Hey Marvel! Welcome to the board. I know i saw you on Teamspeak at least once this week, so hopefully we can play together soon.