Remember the $1,000,000 DoTA 2 tournament that happened last year? Well the biggest eSports tournament of the year is back again, with a $1,600,000 prize pool featuring the top 16 teams from all over the world. Check out the prizes!
Prize Allocation
1st $1,000,000 USD
2nd $250,000 USD
3rd $150,000 USD
4th $80,000 USD
~5th $35,000 USD
~5th $35,000 USD
~7th $25,000 USD
~7th $25,000 USD
About The Teams
Group A:
absolute Legends
CLG
DK
Team EG
LGD
Moscow 5
MUFC
Zenith
Group B:
compLexity
Darer
EHOME
iG
mTw
Na'Vi
Orange
TongFu
The top two favourites to take the whole thing are Na'Vi and Zenith. Australia is represented by Absolute Legends.
Older Starcraft 2 players will remember iceiceice as the guy who came out of nowhere to get #2 in the Blizzard SEA internationals in 2010 and represent SEA at Blizzconn before quitting to go back DoTA2. He says he used to do well vs current GSL Champ Seed when they were both playing on the KR ladders and he misses playing Starcraft 2. Well last year his team walked away with $150,000 USD for finishing third. He was pretty pissed about it too because he felt they could have won the whole thing. This year his team is further strengthened by Singapore legends such as hyhy and the Swedish DotA super star Loda who was credited for pioneering some revolutionary strategy, who interesting relocated to Singapore to be closer to his girlfriend... who is none other than kellyMILKIES ! He now plays in ice's team "Zenith". Zenith's team manager is furryfish and their training HQ is the Singapore Razer headquaters. Check out their training video done by Razer here.
More info on the rest of the teams participating can be found here.
How Do I watch?
All of the games can be watched, live or as replays, in Dota 2 for free. Every steam account has access to their Dota 2 Spectator Client. You can also catch the VODs on their youtube channel.
EDIT: No slickz, but Snoopy/blackshatan both played for my hon team in the past great guys! Musica also played HoN for a SG clan.
These guys are effectively the same group of people from 2 or 3 dota wcg (asia), like 3 smm's and gamescom in 2003, as well as many others.
EDIT2: Also pretty sure it starts Thursday the 30th, not tomorrow!
Actually it starts tomorrow, 3 days of prelims, then 3 days of playoffs play starting on thursday.
edit: 6 days of nonstop dota2 action.
Each team will play every team in their groups for a total of 14 prelim games for each teams. then top 4 teams of each group will go to the winners bracket then the bottom 4 teams of each group will go to the losers bracket.
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MUFC's spot was replaced by Mouz, who is the winner of Mouz vs WE (the 2 back-up teams to be called for the event). Apparently, Sharky, one of the MUFC's players lost his passport at the Hong Kong airport.
streaming starts tonight? or on the 31st? as in from the official stream itself
streaming for the group stage will start tonight (preliminaries).
unofficially streaming started yesterday for the MUFC replacement match between mouseports (germany) vs world elite (china) wherein mouz took MUFC's spot by winning 3-0. http://www.joindota.com/en/news/4003...-international
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