23rd is last day for signups for the reddit tourney before then EVERYONE needs to have the following done:

The basic concepts behind 2 of the following types of heroes and EMAIL them to me(addic03@hotmail.com):
Support
Initiator (or ganker)
Carry (hard or semi)
Pusher
As well as understand how jungling works

Watch these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k6XM4MlYts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-WTvUuvm00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHH1ee5z4zA

View:
http://esfiworld.com/feature/dota-2-competitive-hero-tier-list-march-2012
And understand why heroes are where in the list

Understand warding locations:
http://www.team-dignitas.net/articles/blogs/DotA/1092/Dota-2-Ultimate-Guide-to-Warding/

Also during this time we need to practice at least twice as a team of 5. Developing teamwork is beyond crucial if we want to be successful. I want this to be fun but if we are going in completely blind why should we bother. We fucked up in TF2 I don't want to make the same mistakes here.