Just for the heck of it, someone should try organising a series of funmode tournaments. With some elements of strategy and teamwork of course. Think of how many modes are being neglected in DotA.

I mean I doubt that there would be problems with participation provided that there is a sufficient prize pool. It's practically no-pressure and the one-off ness of it makes it such that, in all likelihood, every team will have a completely different hero lineup.

I'm talking something like -om, -sh with potm, -rvai or -rvas, or just mix some together. Of course, rulesets can be altered. Ban a few heroes here, allow sharing control, heck, maybe allow pooling. Do everything to make it as fresh and unconventional as possible. Set double elimination just for the heck of it.

Pulling in sponsors might be quite hard though, to create that attractive enough prize pool to serve as incentive to participate, not to mention that no one is going to be willing to take the risk in organising it if an old-fashioned DotA competition works just as well.

I mean think of all the funky modes one could have... and of course we should make everything -om (only mid) and allow sharing of chicken.
-sh with potm or meepo or maybe PUDGE. Bristleback -sh would be funny. Viper would be really messy. QoP would be messier.
- aa, as, ai. (All agility, all strength, all intel). Add in -xl for the sake of removing those obviously imba choices.
- Pool the intel hero. This one is kind of complex but could work. Every team picks 4 heroes and the other team chooses one intel hero for them. Pooling will be allowed, but none of the 4 chosen heroes can carry an item worth more than 600 gold. In other words so you'll see truly 4 support and one uber phat hero. Of course, techies should be banned.
- Chicken run. Pooling allowed of course. Win by having a chicken die to the opponent's fountain with the chicken starting out from your fountain (to avoid obvious abuses).

Anyone?