Dota 2 European and Chinese Ladder

Former member of the Western European team OG, Bozhidar "bzm" Bogdanov, has taken the lead in the MMR leaderboard for the European region.

Currently, in second place is the carry player for Gaimin Gladiators, Alimzhan "watson" Islambekov from Kazakhstan, followed by Egor "Nightfall" Grigorenko from Tundra Esports in third.

The top 10 also features several esports athletes from Eastern Europe, including Stanislav "Malr1ne" Potorak, Evgeniy "Noticed" Ignatenko, and Dmitry "DM" Dorokhin, all from Russia.

In China, a player known as Manic has topped the MMR leaderboard for the week, winning a competition organised by Perfect World, the publisher of Dota 2 in the region. For this achievement, Manic received 10,000 yuan (over 136,000 rubles). The second place went to Malaysia's Thiay "JT-" Jun Wen, while Xu "fy" Linsen from China rounded out the top three, with prizes of 3,000 and 1,000 yuan awarded, respectively. Perfect World will announce winners each week.

It's worth noting that recently, several well-known professional players from China have expressed their intention to return to the Chinese matchmaking servers in Dota 2.