It took Amer 10 months "Miracle-" Al-Barkawi to move up from 8000 to 9000 MMR on the leaderboard. The next altitude (10k MMR) turned out to be much more difficult to conquer: in May reaching Miracle- will be a year old, and the player has not passed even half the way to a new record. Team member Team Liquid did not rise above ~ 9400 MMR, and now it has only 9179 points. However, at the moment it is still the highest rating among all regions: other owners of 9k are in no hurry to break records.

Today, however, the community was excited by the news: a new hero has appeared in the ladder! Someone mallljK from Vietnam took the first place in the SE Asia division with 10,000 MMR! It is not clear where the record holder who appeared and was unknown to anyone was suspected of deception. The guesses were confirmed: mallljK dishonestly, using "dummy" accounts, became the leader of the world table. Valve has not yet taken any action to "disqualify" him from there.

This once again shows how imperfect the current rating matchmaking system is. However, Valve is not sitting idle and working to improve it. This is evidenced by a recent experiment: developers have new matchmaking rules. However, after a few days Valve made changes, returning the system to its previous state.

Finally, we present a list of e-sportsmen, whose rating exceeds or has ever exceeded the mark of 9000 points, once again. The twentieth participant on this list a few days ago was Abed Azel "Abed" Yusop from the team Team Onyx.

In Dota 2, you can play rating games, for which the rating itself is given, which is called MMR (MMR). There are different mmr tables, but the main and most important one is the one that Valve publishes on the dota2.com website. This table is updated daily and you need to have a very high solo mmr to get there. Getting to the leaderboard varies by region, but if your rating is less than 6500, you definitely won't get there. And this is a lot, because for most players this value is in the range of 3700-4200.

The mmr table exists for four regions:

  • China - two Chinese servers;
  • South Asia - servers for South Korea, Australia and South-East Asia;
  • Europe - European servers, Russian, as well South Africa(do not look for logic, there is none);
  • America is a joint ranking for the Americas.

That is, getting into a certain list depends only on which server you will be playing on, the place of residence does not affect. By default, you will play on a server that belongs to your region, but this can be changed in the settings.

  • In order to get into the MMR leaderboard in Dota 2, you need several conditions (in addition to a high rating):
  • You must have played at least fifteen ranked games in the last three weeks;
  • In total, you must play at least 100 ranked singles and 300 matches in total.

After you earn a hit in the mmr table, you will be asked to fill in the official information, otherwise you will not get there. It is worth considering filling it out as carefully as possible, as there is a limitation. Then it can be changed after a while (once every two weeks). You need to fill in:

  • Indicate your name and country;
  • Your team and sponsors (if any);
  • Roles that are key and secondary for you.

Global MMR table on the official Dota 2 website on this moment does not exist, it is on other services (for example, on dotabuff). The ratings are updated at 22.00 GMT.

How to get into the mmr table?

To get at least to the bottom of the list, you need to not only play Dota 2 a lot, but also play very well. If you look at those who take the first places, then usually they are well-known players who play for professional teams.

It is much easier for them to get there, simply because they play in strong teams, where team play is very well organized, which in Dota 2 has a very great importance... Yes they have to play required amount singles ranked games, however, not only they have an impact on the value of mmr and on the place in the table. Matches in all tournaments are also counted.

Thousands of forum posts, hundreds of memes and countless nervous breakdowns. Dreams, sweat, sometimes even tears. MMR rating is the hottest topic in. Every day, millions of players around the world go out of their way to raise their solo rating to the desired level. While some manage to successfully climb the stairs and make their way into world table leaders, others are marking time and complaining about the poor selection of allies. Everything you need to know about MMR is from professional players.

Minimum professional threshold

“Any professional player should have at least 7K MMR, and above 8 thousand really doesn't really matter,” says Team Empire offlane player Andrei “Ghostik” Kadik. Indeed, on the modern Dota scene, most players have a single rating of over 7,000. Even in the leaderboard of the European division, the last line, the 200th position, is indicated by an indicator of 7200 points. Nevertheless, there are professionals whose rating is below the 7K MMR threshold, and this does not prevent them from achieving success in team performances. Suffice it to recall the "tweet" of former TnC Pro Team player Jimmy "DeMoN" Ho before the game with OG at The International 2016. Then the Filipinos left the two-time champions of the major in the trough, demonstrating that the presence of 9K MMR does not guarantee victory.

MMR value in team play

“Most young guys think MMR matters and they play a lot to get it up. However, in reality, MMR in team play matters very little, "says one of the most titled Dota 2 players Danil" Dendi "Ishutin. Long time mid-lane player Natus Vincere was criticized for his small single rating, but in just two weeks, with a great desire and enough time, he managed to rise from 7.3K to 8K, proving his rightness to the community.

“On the other hand, what MMR means is the number of games played; time spent on; human diligence. Because raising your MMR is not that easy. It all depends on the number of games, just how much you play. And here we can already say that MMR affects, because you play a lot, respectively, you will do certain things automatically. You will have more space to make decisions about the game. Thus, you will be different from the player who is below you in terms of MMR. But the team Dota is different. "

The secret of success

One of the strongest matchmaking players, Amer "Miracle-" al-Barkawi, who was the first in the world to reach 9,000 points in the single rating, shares the opinion of Dendi: to achieve success. Simply put, play a lot and you will succeed. I came to this when I got stuck at 6.2K and have played a lot since then. large quantity matches ". It turns out that the MMR indicator of players is not decisive in team competitions, but nevertheless it remains almost the only way for up-and-coming public players to make a name for themselves to the whole world. In turn, Miracle- acknowledges that players with highly rated contribute to the development of the Dota scene: “I think MMR is a good indicator. In the end, yes, these are just numbers, but they matter. Because if you are a player with a high MMR, your individual skills are good and you have a lot of experience. And you can bring it to competitive Dota.

Excalibur history

Professional teams began to pay attention to the players from the leaderboard in 2014. Then the European roster of Fnatic needed to be replaced and cast his eyes on one of the leaders of the European singles table Steve "Excalibur" Ye. Together with him, the team successfully performed at ESL One Frankfurt, and many publishers took this as a signal for action. Omar "w33" Olivi, who was the first in the world to reach the top in 8K MMR, admitted that this story gave him back the inspiration to race for the championship in the singles division leaderboard: “The story of Xcalibur is motivation for me, I will do whatever is necessary. to play in a top team. " The Romanian player has kept his promise and already has victories at The Shanghai Major, The International 2016 runner-up, ESL One Genting 2017 trophy and other awards. Many of the players who are now competing in international tournaments and are fan idols came from matchmaking, inspired by the history of Excalibur.

Size matters

In early February, Malaysian Team Secret player Jen "MidOne" Yek Nye became the first Southeast Asian player to reach 9K MMR. By the way, he was the first in the race for 8 thousand points of single rating in his division. The leading positions on the leaderboard gave him a chance to make a name for himself on the professional scene, and he did it successfully. Now Jen does not hide the fact that he is proud of his hard work, and despises those who claim that MMR is just numbers.

“Only those who have not achieved high results speak about the uselessness of MMR for a professional player. Those who have an 8000 or 9000 rating rarely say they are not needed, because they spent a lot of time and effort to climb higher in the rating table. On the other hand, if you have 9000, then in the game opponents will be more afraid and, possibly, ban some heroes specifically against you. This does not always decide the outcome of the match, but in some cases it can be a decisive factor when choosing heroes. I think MMR is a measure of a player's willpower. It doesn't matter how easy or difficult it is for you to win in singles games, without willpower you will never reach 9K! "

Calm, only calm

Anyone who often spends time playing Dota knows how difficult it is sometimes to restrain their emotions when overly negative personalities appear on the team. Many people think that chance is more favorable to high-ranking players, but this is not the case. They also deal with this everyday occurrence. When such personalities act as an obstacle to raising the rating, it is worth listening to the advice from Amer “Miracle-” al-Barkawi: “You need to talk a lot with your allies and try not to get discouraged. Don't pour out your anger. Try your best and you will succeed. If they persist, then I simply ignore them. If such people play for me, then, in my opinion, the task of the rest of the team is to play very well, since it is very difficult to win with teammates on tilt. The best solution- to talk to them, to remove this negative, otherwise it will be very difficult. "

Rating for money or money for rating

Where MMR is, it's always interesting. The International 2014 Newbee champion Chen "Hao" Zhihao once revealed that he had lent his account to the owner of the organization for a while. Upon his return, it turned out that the singles rating had dropped by 120 points. To apologize for the damage, he presented the player with a brand new iPhone 7. Quite a good deal.

The Southeast Asia region has always lagged behind its competitors in single rank averages. At the beginning of last year, the owner of the largest Philippine esports organization Mineski, Ronald "Rhom" Robins, announced that he would pay a monthly $ 300 scholarship to five Filipino players, whose rating will be above 7 thousand points. The result was not long in coming, and after a couple of months, about two dozen Filipinos showed off in the leaderboard.

Once on the popular Reddit forum there was information that Eric "747" Dong suggested monetary reward your opponents to conquer the top in 8K MMR. Bribery or not is a minor matter, since the other day the American reached 9 thousand points in the single rating and now heads the leaderboard in America. The player defended his reputation and received an invitation to compLexity.

A user of the reddit.com portal, hiding under the pseudonym bishof, conducted a study and published the distribution of MMR in Dota 2. As you can see in the graph below, more than 380 thousand matches played between July 10-12, 2017 were analyzed. From the information on these matches, 1.22 million unique players were obtained. The official website states that over the past 30 days, a little over 12 million unique users have been registered in the game.

As a result of calculations the average single MMR is 2380, the median is 2274(this means that half of the players have an MMR below 2274, the other half is above). If your MMR exceeds 3892 - congratulations, you are in the top 10% of Dota 2 players! To get into the top 5%, it is enough to score 4300 points in the single rating (see percentiles to the right of the graph). According to these data, there are very few users with a rating of 5k or higher in Dota 2 (in percentage terms).

Using the Steam Web API, bishof pulled data from the game about all matches that took place in the specified period in the most popular regions (with the exception of China). From the total, he selected ranked matches with the All Pick mod and, accordingly, received the profiles of all the players who participated in these matches. About 30% of them had public MMR. For players whose MMR was hidden, the rating was calculated as the average MMR of all publicly rated players from the last match they played (according to the author of the study, matches in which the MMR was hidden for all ten players were negligible).

The author of the calculations warns that the published MMR distribution is not official, "true" - only Valve has such data. However, there is reason to believe that these calculations do not differ much from reality: in 2013 (on the eve of the introduction of rating matchmaking into Dota 2), the developers published the MMR distribution, in which the median value was 2250 (in bishof's calculations - 2274).