posted by raiko_,
As we revealed over a month ago, the tournament will run from 10-12 September in the coastal tourist hotspot of Portorož. For more information on the event as a whole, check out our earlier article. However, we now know more of the finer details, including teams, format, and casters.
Participating Teams:
Team Secret
Virtus.Pro*
Ninjas in Pyjamas*
compLexity Gaming
Monkey Freedom Fighters* ( Wehsing 'SingSing' Yuen's New Team)
Mamas Boys*
Golden Boys* (Ex LC)
Power Rangers*
The tournament will run in a standard Double Elimination format, with a Bo3 Upper Bracket and a Bo1 Lower Bracket. The tournament will be rounded off with a Best-of-5 Grand Final. So that a group stage won't be necesary, seeding will be determined by the organisers prior to the event.
The seeding placements currently stand as such:
- 1/2 Seed: Team Secret & Virtus.Pro*
- 3/4 Seed: Ninjas in Pyjamas* & compLexity Gaming
*The rest of the teams will be drawn randomly nearer to the tournament date*
This tournament will certainly prove telling for the quality of certain rosters, most notably Secret, who will be hoping their huge roster changes can help them recover from a disspointing TI finish. While this tournament may not offer great International competition from the likes of Evil Geniuses or CDEC Gaming, it will be the first major LAN for young talent Omar 'w33haa' Aliwi, as well as the first showing of their new roster, so they'll hope to give fans a good performance.
Meanwhile, we can see how lineups sadly not at TI will fare against new competition, with NiP and Golden Boys fielding unchanged rosters. It also remains to be seen who will complete the squad of coL, who are without David 'Moonmeander' Tan and Tal 'Fly' Aizik after the pair left to join Johan 'BigDaddyN0tail' Sundstein's new team OG.
We can also reveal that our very own Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson will be casting not only the Dota at the event, but also the CS:GO tournament which runs from 6-8 September.
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