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by Ajedi32 2832 days ago
They had drafting working just fine in a previous version of the AI. (The one that played against semi-pros a month or so before TI.)

One theory I heard was that the pre-made matchups at TI were designed to prevent the human players from getting out-drafted. (The hero pool was pretty limited, which could result in a different meta from what the human players were used to.) They wanted to make the matches purely a test of in-game skill, not about the metagame. As far as I know though, the OpenAI team hasn't explicitly confirmed that.