What is DOTA?

          Defense of the Ancients (DotA) is a multiplayer online battle arena mode for the video game Warcraft III: Reign of chaos and its expansion, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, based on the "Aeon of Strife" map for Starcraft. The objective of the scenario is for each team to destroy the opponents' Ancient, heavily guarded structures at opposing corners of the map. Players use powerful units known as heroes, and are assisted by allied heroes and AI-controlled fighters. As in role-playing games, players level up their heroes and use gold to buy equipment during the mission.

          The scenario was developed with the "World Editor" of Reign of Chaos, and was updated upon the release of its expansion, The Frozen Throne. There have been many variations of the original concept; the most popular being DotA Allstars, which eventually was simplified to DotA with the release of version 6.68. This specific scenario has been maintained by several authors during development, the latest of whom is the anonymous developer known as "Icefrog" who has developed the game since 2005.

Since its original release, DotA has become a feature at several worldwide tournaments, including Blizzard Entertainment's Blizzcon and the Asian World Cyber Games, as well as the Cyberathlete Amateur and CyberEvolution leagues; in a 2008 article of video game industry website Gamasutra, the article's author claimed that "DotA is likely the most popular and most-discussed free, non-supported game mod in the world". DotA is largely attributed to being the most significant inspiration for the multiplayer online battle arena genre. Valve Corporation acquired the intellectual property rights to DotA to develop and release a stand-alone sequel, Dota 2.

                                                         

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Dota to Students

DOTA Advantage
1. DOTA helps the youth who are playing this game to become mentally alert, cooperative and stategic.
2. It increases their knowledge in mathematics by computing the gold's, damages, magic and physical reduction present in the game.
3.Playing DOTA are for the youth to communicate teenagers who initially don’t know each other can easily be friends.

DOTA Disadvantage
1.It can lead to irresponsibility.
2.It triggers the player to lose his/her temper and values.
3.Due to playing, eating is irrelevant
4.It can lead you to ADDICTION!

             Yes it gives you fun, it help improve your mental alertness but it can lead you to irresponsibility. It develop your computing skills by knowing the stats of your hero but it can make you lose your temper and values towards other people. DOTA help you find more friends but it can cause you to sickness because of your addiction eating is irrelevant.