Why this independent The International 2026 hub exists

This is an independent hub built by Dota 2 fans, for Dota 2 fans, with the Philippine audience squarely in mind. We are not affiliated with Valve, with any team, or with the official tournament organisers, and we never pretend to be.

The idea behind the site is simple. Around a major event the information scatters across dozens of sources, half of them out of date and a few of them simply wrong. We wanted one calm, well-organised place where a Filipino fan could check the dates, the field, the qualifier picture and the viewing options without wading through noise. That is the whole brief, and we try to keep to it.

What this site is, and is not

The hub gathers publicly available facts and presents them clearly. We name the official Dota 2 sources in our writing so you know where the authoritative word lives, but we do not link them, and we do not republish anyone else's prose. Every page here is written from scratch. Where a fact is reported but not yet uniformly confirmed, we say so plainly rather than passing rumour off as certainty.

What the site is not is an official outlet. We hold no inside line to the organisers, we cannot sell you tickets, and we cannot change a schedule. When the tournament runs, the official channels are always the final word; this hub is a companion to them, not a replacement.

How we handle affiliate links

To keep the lights on, the site carries affiliate links to a sportsbook partner, SpinBetter. If you follow one of those links and choose to sign up, we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. That commercial relationship never changes the facts we report, and we keep betting content clearly separated from the informational pages so you always know which is which. All gambling content is strictly for adults aged eighteen and over.

We take the responsible-gambling side of that seriously. Wherever betting is mentioned we point to independent support resources and repeat the same plain advice: set a budget, treat any wager as entertainment, and walk away if it stops being fun. Our responsible-gaming page goes into that in more detail, and we would rather you read it than skip it.

Accuracy and corrections

Esports moves fast, and a tournament still assembling its field moves faster still. We update pages as qualifiers conclude and as the organisers confirm details, and we flag clearly when something is provisional. If you spot an error, the right course is to check it against the official sources we name; we revise the site to match confirmed information rather than speculation. The aim is to be the reliable, unhurried reference you can trust during a hectic fortnight of Dota.

The site operates at ti15-philippines.net. It is a fan project, plainly labelled, and it stays in its lane: clear information first, a clearly marked betting partner second, and the official organisers always credited as the authority.