-Mental Challenging
Should i get bracer first or ring of health?....only challenging in DOTA terms, useless in real life.

-Brain storming
brain storm for?...ideas for ambushing people?

-Improve teamwork ability
you and your team,which would be people that you know for a long period of time...not with real strangers and random teams.

-Entertaining
this is true, to some extent, though i get bored when play too much too frequent.


-Reduce stress
Well...if you see at cc, usually those winning or pwning will be feeling fun and relaxed, but the one getting pwned would be cursing and blaming teammates for not helping la, running away la, stupid la, etc.

-Social activities
true as well, if you get to know and socialize with the players u play with, not just play, finish then go home.


-Improve strategic ability
-Improve visualization
-Improve planning ability
-Problem solving skill

i lol'd at these four, looks like something out of a management textbook.


as for opinions on DOTA, it's just a phase the WC3 gaming world is going through, like half-life when it first came out and CS, give it some time and people would move on to something new and more interesting, a new map perhaps?

well...yeah i wonder about that as well...last time when i played, when we lose we'd usually laugh it out and then talk about our stupid mistakes or blunders when go yamcha after game, that's with my close frens though, and they play dota casually.

well...by team i mean a team that would normally join local competitions or so called "pro" teams, not online de lur =)


now into COD4 multiplayer and CS:S online, now thats sweet, short and sweet i mean, not games stretching to 1 hour like dota per round >_<