Best thing to do is jump into a busy channel and say hi. A lot of us still play a ton of dota, but some people are a little annoying when it comes to channel creation.

Most of the time, if you see a large group in a channel that's not CS:GO, they're playing dota.

Edit: Just wanted to say, I'm looking right now (around 1:45 PM EST) and there's about 35-40 people in the different MM channels, so you might have had some bad luck

Awesome pics Bandit!

Looks like you guys had fun. I missed shane and pyrion's cast so I'll have to find the VOD and post it here. I'm not too shocked that shane's language got him a warning .

Here's a link ot the VoD of the game shane and pyrion casted:

http://www.twitch.tv/esluk/b/503560591?t=263m22s

I played some Strife yesterday, probably not as much as Proxy, but I thought I'd give my opinions.

I found the gameplay extremely boring. It felt slow and clunky. As you buy items and level up I never felt like my character got stronger, attacked faster, etc.

The shop is a complete mess. They tried to make the shop something like Dota with components being built into larger items, but it's not split up into components and completed items, it's just completed items, which makes it really difficult to learn.

Gameplay is also very easy, there's no UI to speak of, unless you choose to pin things to your screen (which I did), spells are fairly spamable since you can just regen. Last hitting is extremely easy and fights with other heroes are also extremely fast. As I mentioned earlier, my biggest problem is that I felt that there was no progression as my character got stronger. One match I was the highest GPM and highest level by 2-3 levels but still didn't feel any stronger than the enemy team.

All in all, I think it's a decent casual game, but I'd rather be playing Smite.

I think they're actually adding Japan servers soon. We actually have a Brit who lives in Japan as a member of Doobs, I'll ask him what he plays on and get him your info as well.

You're studying in Yokohama? That's awesome dude! I miss Japan.

Hey guys, I'm trying to set up a pubstomp in Washington DC. If you're interested in attending or at least helping me get some visibility can you leave me a note here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/27ytnj/washington_dc_ti4_pubstomp/

thanks
-fallen

Wait, we're actually letting you in our country? I thought we fought a war to expel your kind.

Don't let his kind exterior fool you. The Polak can't be trusted.

Swoosh, back to the shadows...

Liar

It's because binary is lazy.