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The community’s contribution to the prize pool will be as follows, 25% of the compendium sales, 10% of the chest and 10% of the set sales. There is also a vote for the MVP (most valuable player) which is also introduced for the first time with a prize money of $3000 .
One Game Agency the organizers, seem to run an excellent tournament, in season 3 you can view all your favorite EU CIS and US region teams who will be fighting to reign supremacy in the west with newly formed rosters. A total of 12 teams will be competing in the group stages with 10 teams being invited directly for the group stages; this tournament also gives a chance for the newly formed or the upcoming teams to show off their strength with a qualifier for 8 teams competing for the final 2 spots to join the invited teams.
Team Secret will be the returning champion with 
VP.Polar looking for redemption by winning Season 3 for their runner up position in the Season 2. It should also be noted that Dota Pit League Season 2 is their first championship,and it would be quite exiting to see how the new lineup of Secret feauturing 
Artour 'Arteezy' Babaev and 
Ludwig 'zai' Wahlberg will be doing in this new season. The organizers have declared 9 out the 10 invited teams , with almost all the big names of the west included, Team Empire and 
Natus Vincere seem to be the teams that are not yet announced in the invited or the qualified teams , only time will tell whether the 10th invited team is Team Empire, Na`Vi or any other team.The Season 3 qualifiers start on January 20th, featuring
Kai 'h4nn1' Hanbueckers's new team MeePwn’d, Ninjas In Pyjamas, 
4ASC, 
Power Rangers being the most notable names. Power Rangers will be gearing up with immense confidence for this event with their recent wins over Alliance and Na`Vi in the DAC qualifiers. The main event will start from February 12th, after the DAC event.Invited Teams
Team Secret VP.Polar
Cloud9
Evil Geniuses FIRE! Virtus Pro HellRaisers Alliance Team tinker Team EmpireQualifiers
MeePwn’d NIP 4ASC Power Rangers compLexity Gaming
mYinsanity
Denial eSports Basically UnknownThe coverage of the event will be done in 3 languages with HighGroundTv doing the English cast, storm studio in Russian and LGD.TV in Chinese
This article was written by
Rahul Sai, joinDOTA's Elder Writer.Saij started playing dota 2 from the time of TI3 qualifiers , playing dota2 is his first priority daily in the evenings , and dreaming about dota2 during the day. Being a 2800 MMR player always thinks about how it is at the 3k mark. If not for dota2, he will be listening to boring classes at his universityLocation: Kolkata, IndiaFollow him on @rahul_laddu1.
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