A Peruvian Dota 2 team named Thunder Predator has been disqualified from The International 2018, due to a player using a programmable mouse.<\/p>\n
In a qualifying match on 19 June 2018, Thunder Predator team member At\u00fan used a Razer Synapse 3 programmable mouse to gain an edge over opposing players.<\/p>\n
The mouse can be programmed with macro commands, allowing the instant issuing of multiple actions at the press of a single button.<\/p>\n
Tools like these are banned from professional Dota 2 tournaments, as they can be used to provide an unfair advantage.<\/p>\n
As spotted by users on Reddit<\/strong><\/a>, At\u00fan used macro commands to easily control the Dota 2 hero Meepo, a character which usually demands impressive micro-management skills.<\/p>\n This allowed the player to perform actions which were physically impossible without macros, such as commanding Meepo clones to teleport to the same location at the exact same time.<\/p>\n Thunder Predator said in a statement<\/a><\/strong> that it denounces the accusation and that no type of hack was used.<\/p>\n “The player of our squadron At\u00fan has a Razer Synapse mouse, which, like any professional player, has put its own manual configuration to be able to have a better use of hardware in benefit of its efficient performance in each of the games played with this hero (Meepo),” said the team.<\/p>\n A Peruvian Dota 2 team has been disqualified from The International 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":240854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30286,27022,30288,51925],"class_list":["post-266025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-dota-2","tag-esports","tag-the-international","tag-thunder-predator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266059,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266025\/revisions\/266059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a05 great games to buy in the Steam Summer Sale<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"