Where does the International Dota 2 take place? Qualifications in Southeast Asia
A few minutes ago, the final match of the main tournament of the season in American Seattle ended. In the decisive match in the best-of-three series, the American team Digital Chaos and representatives of the Celestial Empire Wings Gaming met.
Let us remind you that earlier several favorites dropped out of the tournament and were predicted to have a place in the finals. The only representatives of the CIS were among the first to leave the tournament Natus Vincere, as well as champions Shanghai Major Team Secret and one of the strongest teams in the Celestial Empire Vici Gaming Reborn.
The tournament also ended unexpectedly early for two other Chinese teams — NewBee And LGD Gaming, as well as the main contenders for the world championship from Team OG. Also, as expected, they failed to make it into the top eight. The Alliance And Escape Gaming.
On the contrary, the teams from the SEA region surprised experts and spectators: all three representatives of the Asian scene entered the top eight — So, TnC Gaming led by an eSports veteran DeMoN were able to take 7-8 place, knocking them out of the tournament O.G., Koreans from MVP.Phoenix again chose the 5-6th line, and Fnatic climbed to last place in the top four.
Teams left the event surprisingly early EHOME And Team Liquid. The first were able to advance to the main stage from wild-card, but showed themselves excellently at the tournament itself, but did not reach the final battles. Europeans are from Liquid were among the favorites of the tournament, but could not get through the thorns of the lower bracket to the stars.
Three teams continued for the championship on the final day: the defending champions Evil Geniuses fought with other representatives of the American scene from Digital Chaos for the right to play in the grand final with the last Chinese team Wings Gaming. In the very first game, Rasmus Phillipsen's team quite confidently and brilliantly outplayed their opponent in 35 minutes: after a glimpse of a good game in the opening, the “evil geniuses” were unable to show anything and decided to give up.
The second game pleased with an unexpected peak — in the penultimate match the pick was finally made. It's all the more interesting that DC.w33 played him on the center line, but this did not bring success to the team. The tactics intended for early dominance were not carried out, and five of them Evil Geniuses managed to drag out the game to the point where Sven there was no chance left.
The decisive meeting between the American teams turned out to be the most cautious: both teams clearly did not want to leave the tournament before the super final and tried to show their maximum capabilities. After the start active actions the game acquired a bright character, but they still turned out to be a little more skilled Digital Chaos.
The final The International 2016 started two hours late, which turned out to be beneficial DC: the guys got a chance to rest at least a little after an exhausting match with the ex-champions before the main game of the season. It’s all the more surprising that the tired players of the American team had a great time in the first game and the second match. Both teams surprised with their picks in the series debut - on Pudge from Wings The Western team responded with another interesting hero on the center line: .
However, after this experiment, it became much more difficult for the “winged” to play: and if on the second map the guys from DC almost didn’t show, then they lost the third game quite quickly, and in the last confrontation they made too many mistakes and could not jump above their heads. Thus, Digital Chaos remain second, and the champion title again, following the even-year rule, goes to the Celestial Empire.
Tournament: The International 6.
Organizer: Valve.
Venue: Key Arena, Seattle, USA.
Prize fund: more than $18 million
Total number of teams: 16
International 2016 Dota 2: participants
Invited:
Qualification winners:
1) Evil Geniuses
2) Digital Chaos
4) Vici Gaming Reborn
7) TnC Pro Gaming
Wild card participants:
3) Escape Gaming
2 wild-card winners will participate in the main stage of the tournament.
This time, Valve corporation gave invitations to only 6 teams. These are the teams that achieved the best possible results throughout the year after the previous International. The rest had to go through a sieve of merciless qualifications. At first these were open qualifications, where all interested teams could submit their applications. The winners advanced to closed qualifiers. There, the games took place in four regions: China, Europe, America and Southeast Asia.
Qualification in China.
The unconditional victory here was won by Wings Gaming, who were not considered favorites next to such giants of the Chinese dota scene as EHOME, Vici Gaming, CDEC and Invictus Gaming. Four teams competed in the playoffs, and Vici Gaming Reborn got a slot in the main draw of the competition and EHOME in the wild-card.
Qualification in Southeast Asia.
Fnatic did not receive a direct invitation to the International and were therefore favorites for these Asian qualifiers. But they only managed to make it through the playoffs, and in the group TnC Pro Gaming scored the most wins. The wild card slot was given to the Filipinos from Execration.
Qualification in America.
In this region, in fact, there was only one intrigue - which of the favorites would get into the wild card, and who would go directly to the International. As a result, of the three top teams, Evil Geniuses and Digital Chaos were directly included, and compLexity will go to the wild card.
Qualification in Europe.
The last thing left is the European qualification, the most confusing and interesting for us, since there are many CIS teams there. The format of the tournament meant that everything would be on the edge. And so it happened - there were many replays for 1st place, the winners of which were Team Secret. Unfortunately a large number of The CIS teams did not improve in quality, only Fantastic Five were able to show a decent game, reaching the playoffs.
But their strength dried up, and they lost first to Ad Finem, and then to Escape Gaming. As a result, the Swedes from Alliance entered directly, and the European team Escape will participate in the wild card.
International Dota 2 2016: Schedule
Will appear closer to the tournament.
Group stage completed The International 2016, in which sixteen of the strongest teams in the world fought among themselves to reach the top of the main stage grid.
According to the competition regulations, the teams that took the first 4 places in each group received the right to continue their participation in the championship in the winners' bracket at the playoff stage. Consequently, the remaining 8 teams ended up in the losers’ bracket, where they will have to play the first round until one win and fight for their “survival” until the very end. The International 2016.
The tournament rules allowed the leaders of the group tables to choose their opponent for the first round of the playoff stage from among the teams that took 3-4 places in the opposite group: O.G. preferred to play with MVP.Phoenix, A EHOME agreed to fight with Alliance. Thus, E.G. the team got a couple Newbee, A Digital Chaos - Wings Gaming.
The teams were seeded in the lower bracket in the same way. TnC Gaming And Fnatic chose their opponents from the very bottom of the standings: the Filipinos (and DeMoN) will play in the first round with Vici Gaming Reborn, and Malaysians - with Escape Gaming. Therefore, the opponent Team Secret became a team LGD Gaming, and in pairs to Natus Vincere were appointed Team Liquid.
The International 2016 (TI6): watch online broadcast on Twitch, schedule of matches of the main event stage (date) and RESULTS, distribution of the prize fund, playoff bracket, list of commentators and analysts.
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Prize fund: $20,041,693.
TI 6 starts today!
In just a few hours (at 19:00 Moscow time), the opening of the Dota 2 esports tournament - The International 2016 - begins! Upon completion of the grand opening, the first matches of the playoffs of the TI 6 stage begin, which Dota 2 players around the world are waiting for! We present to your attention a detailed schedule of matches, as well as other interesting information.The International 6: date
The gaming part of the tournament (Main Event) will begin on August 8 at 20:30 (all times are indicated in Moscow), and will end on the night from Saturday to Sunday (August 13-14), from 23:30 in the decisive battle of the tournament finalists! You can watch all this action on the official Twitch channelThe developer of the Dota 2 game and the organizer of The International tournament, Valve, announced the format of the sixth championship. The tournament will begin on August 2 with the Wild Card and end with the grand final on August 13.
At the Wild Card mini-tournament, 4 teams will compete for 2 tickets to the group stage of the championship. Among the contenders are the giants of the Chinese scene EHOME, the Americans compLexity Gaming, representatives of Europe Escape Gaming and the Philippines Execration.
The favorites and, most likely, the winners of the Wild Card will be EHOME and compLexity, as the most prepared and experienced teams.
The group stage will be the most active, because from August 3 to 5, at least 56 matches will be played: 16 teams will play 1 best-of-three game (Bo3) to share places in the upper and lower brackets of the main part of the tournament. In this case, a victory will give the team 3 points, a draw - 1, and a defeat - 0. And if the points collected are not enough to determine the winner, the teams will have to play additional games.
The main stage of The International will be held according to the traditional system of two brackets, “upper” and “lower” (double elimination) from August 8 to 13.
It is worth noting that the prize fund of The International championship has already broken all records, exceeding 18.4 million dollars, and by the championship itself, most experts are talking about the figure of 20 million dollars.
Last year, Dota 2 set a remarkable record for the prize pool of the annual esports tournament The International. Then they managed to collect an impressive amount of $18 million 429 thousand 613. But this year Dota 2 was able to break its own last year’s record more than two weeks before the final of the tournament, which will be held in Seattle on August 12-13.
Valve uses an original crowdfunding approach to forming the prize pool for the Dota 2 tournament. The company annually allocates $1.6 million from its own funds, and then raises additional funds through in-game sales. Thus, the constantly increasing size of the prize fund reflects the growing popularity of the game. In 2016, Valve offered players the opportunity to buy Battle Pass packs, which could then bring significant bonuses. Thus, a special prize was announced, activated if the fundraising breaks last year's record. All Battle Pass owners are promised three Trust of the Benefactor chests, which will contain a random set, an Immortal chest and an Arcana rarity item or an incredibly rare reward.
And now players can really count on receiving the goodies they were promised, as the prize pool for The International 2016 tournament is already $18.5 million and continues to increase. Thus, this eSports competition has officially become the most profitable.
