Gigabyte Dota 2 Masters: groups revealed

posted by Blue_Knight, 1 year ago
The biggest South East Asian online Dota 2 tournament yet is now set to kick off next weekend. Twenty-four of the region's finest teams are poised to duke it out for a $5000 prize pool.

Just in case you missed the trailer the first time



Hosted by Gigabyte and scheduled to run for six weeks, the tournament will initially employ a round-robin format, with the twenty-four teams (two still yet to be decided, by qualifiers) divided into these just confirmed four groups of six:

Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
th MiTh.Trustcn CLCcn TongFuau SQL
sg Aeonph MSI EvoGTph Dreamzsg Zenith
cn EHOMEmy MUFCBig PlaysGoG
cn DKmy Orangeph Mineskiph Duskbin
au Absolute Legendsvn StarsBobaQualifier 1th Neolution
id Rittercn LGDQualifier 2my Invasion Red


After the group stage - from which the top two teams in each will advance into the the Winner's Brackets, and the third and fourth placed into the Loser's Brackets, with the bottom two eliminated entirely - the tournament will switch to a Double Elimination bracket format.

All of the matches will be played as a best-of-three, up until the Grand Final, which will be a best-of-five, with the Winner's Bracket finalist taking a one-game lead into the final showdown. The overall winners will take away a $3000 prize, with $1250 going to the runners-up and $750 for the third-place finishers.

The group stages will begin this coming Sunday, April 29th, and will be complete by May 23rd. An English language stream and commentary of the action will be provided by GosuGamers' au David 'GoDz' Parker, now of course from his new studio in Thailand.

Sources: GosuGamers

 
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#1
Shibby wrote at 22.04.2012, 22:50 CEST:
Group B ist clearly the Group of Death!
#2
Snakkie wrote at 22.04.2012, 22:54 CEST:
Roster for EHOME?
#3
Guznak wrote at 22.04.2012, 22:54 CEST:
I'd say group a is much stonger at dota2 atm
#4
WooLala wrote at 22.04.2012, 22:59 CEST:
Group B Hell yeah!
#5
aut.taker wrote at 22.04.2012, 23:04 CEST:
Group A? Mith, aeon, Ehome, Dk AL?
#6
beansock wrote at 22.04.2012, 23:06 CEST:
Good to get some proper Asian tournaments, hopefully they'll be up to scratch for TI. Will be interesting to see how the Asian meta/European meta differ, if they're quite drastically different it'll be a big mixup at the big LAN events.
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-Chaman- wrote at 22.04.2012, 23:07 CEST:
Yeah someone could tell us what's the Roster for EHOME? Go team Zenith!!
#8
demolisherzeus wrote at 22.04.2012, 23:19 CEST:
Group A :O
#9
omgwtfjust wrote at 22.04.2012, 23:43 CEST:
why are there so much unknown philippine teams? at least one of them should've been iZone. can't wait to see how the new eHome team does. but aren't there 2 ehome teams now? or is one of them for dota 1?
#10
DrDhoom wrote at 22.04.2012, 23:50 CEST:
Ritter!
#11
niklassson wrote at 22.04.2012, 23:53 CEST:
onlyy 5K?
#12
Sun_Tzu wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:00 CEST:
Zenith, easiest group of their lives.
#13
8ball_bg wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:02 CEST:
@niklassson, Asia is still DotA (1) so every tournament is welcome..
#14
Marinelite wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:31 CEST:
@Sun_tzu IKR. Time to breeze through the group stage.
#15
Pinceta wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:33 CEST:
why the fuck is MYM in it ... something is wrong there , MYM fail organization is pushing for their name to be in? even hyhys team is independent ..
#16
waitforit92 wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:33 CEST:
are these groups intentional or random? i don't get why they are letting 2 qualifiers in group C and cramping big names into 2 groups. i doubt the fans wanna see whats-their-name against DK or AL while EHOME just barely failed to advance into the playoffs.
#17
elfonzi wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:34 CEST:
Group c and d clearly subpar.
#18
WARDIGI wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:42 CEST:
Big plays is from Australia. People shouldn't underestimate teams such as big plays and SQL. They both are both very strong teams comparable tween aL.
#19
TheDok666 wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:46 CEST:
it's so weird to hear godot's action commented by Godz instead of tobi :(
#20
strachi wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:47 CEST:
MYM replaced by Zenith, right ?:) Group B - death !
#21
JuiCe- wrote at 23.04.2012, 00:59 CEST:
I hope GodZ doesn't have to whisper in his new studio, and can actually speak out loud
#22
vandelurk wrote at 23.04.2012, 01:10 CEST:
A & B >>> C & D
Seriously this is so wrong
#23
Q.ex wrote at 23.04.2012, 01:16 CEST:
well i mean the trailer is nice, and it was big play by godot. BUT WHY DID YOU TAKE GODZ´s COMMENTATE?-.- such a fucked up voice^^
#24
Dakaize wrote at 23.04.2012, 01:22 CEST:
Ritter?!
Just wishing they did ok, not getting stomped in every matches! GL Ritt!
#25
PokkaLycheeTea wrote at 23.04.2012, 02:37 CEST:
#23 Because GoDz is the official English commentator for the competition? omfg, read up.
 
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