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It gives us great pride to announce that the D2CL Season 5 Finals will be hosted and broadcast in joinDOTA HQ in Berlin, live from our brand-new studio! The four teams participating in the two-day event include Starladder XII champions Vici Gaming and jD MLG Pro League Season 1 champions Team Empire. Add SingSing and Era to the mix and we have the makings for a great tournament. Will VG finally meet their match?
The D2CL Season 5 ticket also comes with a Skywrath Mage set

First-ever European LAN to be played on patch 6.84
The event, which has a prize pool of almost $80,000, will also feature SingSing's eu Burden United as well as Era's se Ninjas in Pyjamas*, who placed 3rd at the jD MLG Pro League Season 1 two weeks ago. The first ever LAN finals of the D2CL last year was held at Dreamhack Bucharest in October and broadcast by joinDOTA, but now both parties are ready to take the next step.

"The D2CL Season 5 finals is the very first on-site studio production of this scale in the history of joinDOTA", says Jan-Hendrik Heuschkel, COO, Freaks 4U Gaming. "The D2CL has been a reliable partner to work with in the past. Joining forces for the Grand Final event will ensure the best possible production quality for the Dota 2 community."

Ninjas in Pyjamas also qualified for the D2CL Season 5 Finals along with Burden United


Hosted by Soe with English and Russian broadcasters

The D2CL Season 5 Finals will be held from the 9-10th May, and it will be the first-ever European tournament to be be played on patch 6.84. Our English stream will be brought to you by Toby “TobiWan” Dawson and William “Blitz” Lee, with Salome “Soe” Gschwind-Penski on hosting duties.

Meanwhile, for our beloved Russian viewers the D2CL will also be flying out Storm Studio casters Dmitriy “LighTofHeaveN” Kupriyanov and Vladimir “Maelstrom” Kuzminov to Berlin to provide a Russian broadcast. However, if you prefer to follow the event in minute details through the client then make sure to purchase the ticket which comes with a brilliant set for Skywrath Mage.

“After a year and a half of productive collaboration between Dota 2 Champions League and joinDOTA, we are both incredibly happy and excited to enhance our relations by organizing the LAN finals of D2CL Season 5 together in the brand-new joinDOTA studio in Berlin”, says Artem Bykov, Product Manager, D2CL. “I have absolutely no doubt that the integration of our efforts will amaze Dota 2 fans with thrilling matches as well as a fantastic viewing experience.”

Participating teams in the D2CL Season 5 finals
cn Vici Gaming (Winners of the D2CL China groupstage)
eu Burden United (Winners of the D2CL Europe groupstage)
ru Team Empire
se Ninjas in Pyjamas*

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