I took the plunge, and played my first game of Dota since January. Nice to see that not much has changed: got a South American team mate (ES), and a few local guys. My farm was a bit stunted cause of lack of practice, but still kept up with the pace, and got a couple of early kills (and deaths). Still no missing calls, and lost a LOT of gold because I (as Doom) had to keep the map warded because the ES (no hablo!) and CM clearly didn't know their roles. The ES also dropped some epic blocks on us, and got us killed a few times. ES told the team to report me (I got ganked a few times trying to ward Radiant ancients/river and Rosh). Anyway, wasn't much fun. A friend of mine says that he doesn't even bother playing on the local servers anymore. He says the EU servers have improved a lot (if you can live with the ping).