26 January in the world of eSports

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Patches

In Dota 2, when a client was in the beta-test, in 2009 and 2010 some patches were released. In 2009 the patch 6.59 was released, and in 2010 the patch 6.66b was released. They include some minor changes such as a change in the cost of different items and changes of the cooldown of some abilities of the characters.

Birthdays

Today one of the players Tempo Storm, Denis «dzt» Fischer turned 21.

Bans

26 January, 2015 Valve gave ban to 5 players who had taken part in the false match. Such players as Sam «DaZeD» Marine, Keven «AZK» Lariviere, Joshua «steel» Nissan, Braxton «swag» Pierce и Derek «dboorN» Boorn got banned. After this accident the fivesome who was the players of Team Torqued was excluded from the start roster of the team.  One of the players, dboorN, ended his career and never performed at the professional stage CS:GO. AZK, steel, and swag represent the team GX at the moment. DaZeD also played at GX, but in November, 2017 he ended his career.