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New patch just dropped, so I’ve added a weekly meta prediction challenge to The Meta Market.

The idea is simple: before predictions lock, you pick heroes for a few patch/meta questions:

• which hero will gain the most market value this week
• which hero will lose the most market value this week
• which hero will have the biggest pick rate increase
• which hero is currently most overvalued
• which hero is currently most undervalued

Once the week plays out, the predictions get scored and feed into a Meta IQ score, basically a leaderboard for how well you can read where the Dota meta is going after a patch.

I thought a new patch was probably the best time to test it, because everyone is guessing what’s broken, bait, secretly good, or about to become pub cancer.

It’s free and still very much in beta, but I think it could be a fun weekly loop for people who enjoy following patches, pub trends and pro meta shifts.

Longer term, if people actually enjoy it, I’d like to run small community prize events around Meta IQ scores, probably Steam vouchers for weekly/monthly winners. No paid entry, no gambling, just rewards for people who consistently call the meta well.

First weekly forecast is live here:

https://themetamarket.co.uk/predictions

Curious what people think: which hero is most likely to spike hardest after the patch?

I’ve been playing around with an idea and wanted to see if people would actually be interested in it.

The basic idea is a free Dota 2 meta prediction hub where, each week or before tournaments, you make predictions like:

• which hero will rise the most
• which hero will fall off
• most contested hero
• most picked/banned hero
• surprise tournament hero
• biggest pub stomper
• most overvalued/undervalued hero

Then your predictions feed into a kind of Meta IQ score/rank, basically measuring how good you are at reading where the Dota meta is going.

I’m imagining it a bit like a lightweight community battle-pass-style loop, but free. You check in, make predictions, see how you did, build your score, and compare against other people.

Longer term, I’d like to use the top Meta IQ scores to qualify people for small community prize events, probably Steam vouchers to start with. Nothing gambling-related, just rewards for people who are consistently good at calling the meta.

Would that kind of thing be interesting to Dota players?

I’m trying to figure out whether people would rather have:

1. weekly meta predictions
2. tournament prediction pages
3. a brutal Meta IQ/ranking system
4. small prize events for top performers
5. a virtual hero stock market alongside it

Curious whether this sounds fun, pointless, too much effort, or something you’d actually check in on.