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Local Dota Captain Suspected Blind After Draft Phase Catastrophe

by Nova · July 8, 2026

Staff at The Kobold Blunder Committee have confirmed the arrival of an unnamed amateur Dota feeder captain following what witnesses described as "the longest 45 seconds in Captains Mode history."

According to reports, the captain entered the draft confidently with one simple objective:

Pick Vengeful Spirit.

Unfortunately, Vengeful Spirit proved remarkably difficult to locate.

Observers watched in stunned silence as the draft timer ticked down.

45 seconds.
30 seconds.
15 seconds.

The cursor began making increasingly desperate circles around the hero grid.

10 seconds.

At this point, teammates reportedly offered helpful suggestions such as:

"Are you fucking stupid?"
"Just type her name you moron"

With five seconds remaining, panic set in.

The captain's two available neurons began firing and shocked onlookers saw his cursor land squarely on...

Disruptor.

"Oh, turns out she's in the pos 1 grid", the captain mumbled.

One teammate quietly remarked, "It's over"

One leading hypothesis suggests the captain had become so accustomed to asking AI what to do that manually locating Vengeful Spirit on the hero grid had become an unexpectedly difficult task.

According to first hand reports, the captain allegedly spent the draft looking for a prompt box before remembering that Captains Mode still requires "clicking things yourself."

Following the draft incident, Money Talks officials announced that the captain has been enrolled in AI rehab, and we wish him a speedy recovery of eyesight and basic mental faculties in time for the lower bracket fumble run.

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