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Dota 29 years agoAndreea "divushka" Esanu

Esportal: playoffs begin today

The long gap between ESL One and The International 5 will be filled by Esportal League that will provide us the daily dose of competitive games stating from today up to July 5th.

After a seven months long invitational qualifying round plus open qualifiers, eight teams have made it into the main event of Esportal League. Scheduled initially for April as a LAN event, the last stage of the tournament had to be switched to an online competition due to interfering with the schedule of other major leagues.  

Another change that Esportal League has suffered is the replacement of the invitational qualifiers winners, Ninjas in Pyjamas, who had to withdraw from the tournament in the last moment with Power Rangers, who were announced yesterday to take the free spot left as they were the second place finishers in the qualifiers.PR had a lot of difficulties to overcome this year and because of their unstable roster they haven’t been seen in a lot of tournaments. For Esportal League they will play with former HellRaisers member Ivan 'Gorec' Kartankov and the new support addition  Kirill 'Sunlight' Kachinskiy 

Featuring two direct invited TI teams, Empire and Virtus.Pro, Esportal playoffs are comprised of a double elimination group stage where the top two teams of each group advance to the final stage, a double elimination bracket. All matches of the playoffs are best of three except for the grand final which is best of five.

The first two games are scheduled for today, Virtus.Pro vs mYinsanity starting at 17:00 CET while Power Rangers will face Vega Squadron at 20:00 CET. The entire event will be covered by Beyond the Summit, on the Esportal dedicated twitch channel.

Prize pool distribution:

1st place: $32,000
2nd place: $16,000
3rd place: $4,800
4th place: $4,800
5th -8th place: $1,600

source: esportal.comfacebook.com/EsportalOfficial


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