Valve released patch 7.38c right in the middle of a Team Liquid match, changing the course of the game

Valve introduced patch 7.38c out of the blue in the midst of the Team Liquid vs. Gaimin Gladiators match at FISSURE Universe 4.

The gameplay update interjected the flow of the matches during the competition. Team Liquid won the first map in what can only be described as a complete massacre of Gaimin Gladiators. But everything changed with the introduction of patch 7.38c.

While Team Liquid did stomp Gaimin Gladiators in the first map, they went on to lose the next two, a lot of folks point to patch 7.38c as the culprit. In the middle of a match for Gaimin Gladiators, hardly anyone expected a gameplay update to be launched at that time and many were caught off guard by Valve.

Not awfully long ago, Valve made waves when, out of nowhere, they patched 7.38c into Dota 2, which modified Roshan's lair along with a few other locations on the map.