*UPDATED with format* KeyTV to host massive $200,000 LAN in Singapore

*UPDATED with format* KeyTV to host massive $200,000 LAN in Singapore
posted by Matthew Elmas,
[B]KeyTV[/B] have announced that they will be hosting a new LAN event in Singapore later this year called the Nanyang Championships. The event will feature ten teams, six direct invitees and four qualifying squads, who will compete for more than $200,000 USD from October 26th to November 1st at the Suntec convention centre in Singapore.
The Suntec convention centre

According to KeyTV the event will feature four regional qualifiers that will run throughout September, with the winner for each region’s respective event earning their place at the LAN finals alongside the invited rosters.

KeyTV have yet to announce the identities of the invited rosters, but they have specified which regions the teams will belong to, with two teams from Europe and China as well as one team from America and Southeast Asia slated to attend.

The LAN finals will be separated into two distinct stages. The first stage will see the attending squads split into two groups of five to participate in BO2 round robins. The top two teams from both groups will then proceed to the winners’ bracket and the 3rd-4th place finishers will be seeded into the lower bracket, whilst the last place of each group will be eliminated.

The second phase of the LAN finals will involve the remaining eight teams competing in a double elimination bracket to determine the finalists. All of the matches in the double elimination bracket will be BO3’s expect for the first two rounds of the lower bracket, which will be BO1’s.

Following the two day double elimination bracket and a rest day on the 31st of October; the tournament will conclude with a BO5 grand final on November 1st.

The tournament’s prize pool is unprecedented for the Southeast Asian region and will be partially crowd funded, with 25% of all in-game ticket sales contributing to the $200,000 USD base pool. This will include both a compendium and in-game items, which will be available on the DOTA 2 store in the coming weeks. The prize pool will be broken down as follows...
  • 1st Place: $100,000 USD + 48% crowdfunded contribution
  • 2nd Place: $50,000 USD + 24% crowdfunded contribution
  • 3rd Place: $25,000USD + 12% crowdfunded contribution
  • 4th Place: $10,000USD + 8% crowdfunded contribution
  • 5th–6th Place: $7,500USD + 4% crowdfunded contribution
The Chinese based organizers have chosen the Suntec convention and exhibition centre as the venue for the event. The centre is located in Suntec city, Singapore and can seat more than 7,000 people over 880,000 square feet of floor space, making it a suitable venue for a major LAN event.

The tournament itself is set to be one of the first large scale post-TI LANs, with scheduled dates only two months after the biggest tournament on the DOTA calendar. The International has historically caused significant shuffles in the competitive scene, making it likely that the Nanyang Championships will be a testing ground for new rosters.

This article was updated on the 13/7/2015 to include new information released by KeyTV.

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