With just a week to go before The International 5, Valve has released the full information on this year's format, prize distribution and schedule.
Schedule:
Wildcard - July 26
Groupstage - July 27-30
Main event - August 3-8
Format:
- All 4 wildcard teams will be playing in a double elimination groupstage. The top two placers of the group will move on to The International 5 groupstage.
- 16 teams will be separated into two groups of eight. Every match will be played in a best-of-two format and the top four finishers will start in the winner bracket of the playoffs. The bottom four will be starting in the loser bracket.
- Playoffs will be using a double elimination bracket. All the games bar the first round of the loser bracket (bo1) will be best-of-three while the grand final will be best-of-five.
The groupings will be revealed July 22nd after all players have arrived.
Prize pool distribution (at current time):
Participating teams:
Vici Gaming
Invictus Gaming
LGD
Newbee
EHOME
Secret
Cloud 9
Evil Geniuses
Complexity
Team Empire
Virtus.Pro
Fnatic
Natus Vincere
MVP.Hot6
MVP.Phoenix (Wildcard)
Team Archon (Wildcard)
CDEC (Wildcard)
Vega Squadron (Wildcard)
Source: Dota 2
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