The first part of the group stage
Play-in stage table
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The second part of the group stage
Group A Table
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Tiebrakes for 2 - 4 places.
Group B Table
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Playoff stage
Playoff table.
Tournament information
General information
Tournament format
Playoff stage
- Second chance grid format
- All matches except the Grand Final are Bo3
- Grand Final, Bo5
The first part of the group stage
- Swiss grid for 16 teams
- All matches are in BO3 format
- The best 8 teams enter the next stage
- Other teams leave the tournament
The second part of the group stage
- Two groups of eight teams each
- The groups are held according to the Round-Robin system, that is, each team in the group plays with the others one match at a time
- All matches are in BO2 format
- The top two teams from each group advance to the upper bracket of the playoffs
- The 3rd and 4th places in each group enter the lower bracket of the playoffs
- Other teams leave the tournament
general information
- Eight invited teams go directly to the second group stage
- Six teams invited to the Swiss stage (group stage 1)
- Ten teams from the closed qualifiers advance to the Swiss stage (group stage 1)
Participants
Direct invitation
Results and prizes
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More about Elite League
Studio Fissure and South American tournament operator ESB have teamed up to create a massive event that will bring together 24 of the best Dota 2 teams from around the world. The name of the new tournament is Elite League.
The prize fund of the tournament will amount to one million US dollars, which will be divided in proportion to the position of the teams in the final table.
Format and schedule
The tournament will begin with two qualifiers in each of the following seven regions: Eastern Europe, Western Europe, China, Southeast Asia, North America, South America and MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Open qualifiers will be held from March 6 to 9, and closed qualifiers from March 11 to 16.
The main event is divided into three stages: two group stages and a play-off.
The first group stage will run from March 31 to April 4, in a Swiss grid format. The eight best teams will advance to the second stage, and the remaining eight teams will leave the tournament. All matches will be in Bo3 format.
The second group stage will be the classic two groups of 8 teams in a round-robin format. The second stage will be held from April 5 to 11.
The final Playoff stage will be from April 13 to 15, where 8 teams will play in a grid with a second chance (double elimination). The four worst teams in the second stage will start from the lower bracket and immediately into the relegation matches, while the top four teams will start from the upper bracket.
Participants
In the closed qualifiers, eight teams will play in each region, with the exception of MENA, where there will be only four participants. In total, 9 teams qualify for the main tournament and will start their journey from the first group stage. Another seven teams will receive a direct invitation to the Swiss grid.
Together with the announcement of the tournament, the 8 strongest teams in the world at the moment (according to the organizers) were immediately announced, because they received direct invitations immediately to the second group stage. These commands are as follows:
Conclusions
After Valve outsourced the running of Dota 2 tournaments to third-party organizers, the chances and opportunities for professional players and organizations expanded. New tournaments with crazy prize funds appear almost every month, which only increases the interest in this e-sports industry and develops the professional scene.
It seems that this Elite League is just the beginning of a grand series of tournaments that can become real competitors to already famous events such as DreamLeague.
I wonder how these new tournaments will count when inviting teams to The International. However, from the first year of the new format, it is clear that it is much more profitable for organizations to have such a large number of tournaments with prize pools of $1 million than to risk all their hopes on a single tournament to collect their prize money.
Such a move creates more opportunities for players and teams, allowing them to regularly demonstrate their skills, and most importantly, be properly rewarded for it. Accordingly, such a system provides stability for organizations that will be able to receive a stream of income during the season. It seems that we are witnessing a new era in the development of the professional Dota 2 scene, where the competition will become even tougher from tournament to tournament.