After 1 year of planning and working, we are ready to remake DotaPickup! Everything we did was aimed at improving the overall gaming experience of every user playing here. We hope you like the direction we are going and the changes implemented. This is just the beginning of a total remake and we are counting on everyone to contribute and help us build the best place for casual dota in Europe!

Enough long talks, here are on short the changes:

- New authentication process: improved security, lower evade chances, users are unique and in future you will be able to see private statistics about your gameplay! You will have minimum one week to validate. After a certain date, only validated users will be able to join channel. This is a one time process.
- New hosting platform: we are slowly getting rid of the outdated and not maintained anymore ListChecker, migrating to a network of hosting bots that will expand and cover every corner of Europe. This will allow very powerful features soon like streaming and stats.
- New rules: we changed the rules a little according to latest changes and suggestions. This are active from today so read at end of article a little about what we changed before add.
- New program - ZeTool: we now have our own developed inhouse software that will help us and every user in ways we couldn't even dream in the past. With your help, we can build one of the most powerful DotA programs on the market.
- New logo: take a peak at it inside ZeTool.
- New channel: #dotapickup.log - See everything that happens on pickup - LIVE! New users, bans, unbans, validations, xp accept and denies, games and xp requests, etc! Soon you will be able to see there games from XP streamed for everyone and dota TIPS!
- New chances! DP 2 = Second chance for some permabanned users. If they come clean, promise they will behave and not make problems anymore - they will get their old accounts back - with all games + xp access. They can start contacting admins on help channel.
- New Tournament: the users want it and even mange it! We give and help. More prizes will be announced soon.

So here are on short some of the things that we worked on. As I said, this is just the beginning and we will integrate and add a lot of stuff very often. Stay close, keep involving and you will have the best GGs ever!

Read more here: dotapickup.com/forum/index.php/board,88.0.html


Only rules changing affect imediate gameplay. The validation will happen in a grace period of min a week. Do it when you have free time. In meanwhile please read this short changelog in rules:
1. FORFEIT
- FF is allowed for both teams after 40 min or from the moment a player leaves game. Remove "early FF"
- You can't ask/demand/whine/beg/mock/laugh/threaten FF. There is no early FF. Even a single line whine or discussion before FF is allowed might get you banned.
2. Remove leaver intervals and replace with: 0-10 remake with same guy or standin (players vote), 10+ continue game with FF enabled for both teams.
3. Host doesn't need to be blue anymore. Host can be anywhere they wish.
4. LC rules removed (bot has priority not LC anymore). Order of usage is Admin, TP, Bot regular user, LC user.
5. Remove "friends have the right to play in same team". Add "you must respect teams made by bot and use !link to play with your friends". (everything is automatically handled on irc, no need to say it in rules)
6. Remove "host needs to ping 3 times" as bot makes an average over last 30 seconds or so.
7. Update rule "You must join battle.net BEFORE !add, with the same or similar nick as the one you use on the irc-channel" : "You must join battle.net BEFORE !add (to make sure you don't have any connection difficulties like key in use or temp banned), with the validation bnet account.
8. If in RD can't decide slots, use the irc list order.