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Defense of the Ancients (DotA) is a type of custom map created for the game Warcraft III (by Blizzard Entertainment). DotA can be played as a multiplayer game, either on Battle.net, private servers or local area networks. The original map has spawned several variants, including DotA Allstars. DotA Allstars v5.84c was featured in the Malaysian and Singaporean World Cyber Games 2005 national finals and the Cyberathlete Amateur League now runs both Open and Main divisions using DotA v6.37.
History The original DotA map was created by a player named Eul. There is an item in the current DotA Allstars referencing this (Eul's Scepter of Divinity). Eul has since abandoned DotA, and his original map has inspired many variants, including the well known DotA Allstars. At one point Guinsoo (who is also referenced in an item, "Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse") worked on it; however, later on another team member from Clan Kali, Burizza, worked on it as well. Currently Icefrog is the one who is leading the team of DotA makers. There has been controversy over Allstars concerning the extent to which it used the original map's contents and the changes it made to the map's gameplay. Defense of the Ancients variants Throughout the history of the Defense of the Ancients map development, various DotA map titles were created by map developers. These include: Opposition There are Warcraft III players who oppose DotA, due to the amount of DotA games on Battle.Net (often more than two-thirds or more of the custom games being played at any one time are DotA variants). In addition to the disgruntlement that many of these players do not play the regular Warcraft III games and therefore believe that DotA is destroying Warcraft III as a whole, and several clans have been formed as anti-DotA clans. Certain players are attempting to get other custom games, such as NOTD, to be played, to dilute the number of DotA games being played on Battle.net, such as Operation Starlite and Operation T.E.A.C.H. in the NOTD-Aftermath forums. Trivia Notes See also | ||||||||
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