For those who might have missed the most important news from the past week in the competitive Dota2 scene, here is a short recap.
Tournament news:
Get ready for Elimination Mode 3.0
MoonduckTV announced that the third edition of the hugely popular Elimination Mode. The tournament will start this very Saturday.
As usual, teams will be allowed to only pick or ban heroes once per series. 3.0 also comes with an increased prize pool of $25,000 ($20,000 in 2.0), as well as several other changes. The community will have even more influence in the team’s picks and bans with the 30 additional hero bans per day.
Elimination Mode 3.0 participants:
EU:
OG
Alliance
Ad Finem
Ninjas in Pyjamas
NA:
Wanted
Team Freedom
compLexity Gaming
Onyx
ESL One Hamburg 2017 announced
ESL One returns this year in Germany with a twist, this year's event will be in Hamburg. It will be on October 28-29th in the Barclaycard Arena of Hamburg. The stadium boasts 16,000 seats and was used to house Hamburg’s own handball and ice hockey teams. The prize pool $250,000 and eight teams will fight over, this being the 8th ESL One event and no team has won it twice. More information about the teams and the format will come later.
German community starts a €10,000 Dota 2 League
The German Dota 2 League commenced on February 3 and will last up until mid-April, with games being played every weekend, from Friday to Sunday. The format is a straightforward, one where all the teams will be playing each other in a two game series. Each won game awards the winning side with points and €30, independently from the base prize pool. There are no elimination series, no playoffs, only the league play. At the end of the entire brawl, on April 16, the top three teams will get to share the €10,000 prize pool.
OG receive the last invite to SL i-league StarSeries Season 3
The three times Major Champions, OG will travel to Shanghai China at the end of this month to compete in the third season of StarLadder i-league StarSeries. They will be joining six other qualified squads and the TI6 Champions, Wings Gaming who were the first to receive a direct invite to the event.
StarLadder i-league StarSeries Season 3 participants
Wings Gaming (direct invite)
OG (direct invite)
VG. J (Chinese qualifiers)
iG Vitality (Chinese qualifiers)
TnC (SEA qualifiers)
Team Liquid (European qualifiers)
Team Secret (European qualifiers)
Digital Chaos (Americas qualifiers)
Team announcements:
In an unexpected turn of events, Fnatic’s captain and founder of the Dota 2 team,Chai 'Mushi' Yee Fung Fung has left the organization. “The SEA scene would not be as competitive as it is now without your presence. You have lived up your name as a legend and I hope you continue to do so in your future team” said Fnatic’s Manager Eric 'reinnnn' Khor Wei Soon in his official statement regarding Mushi’s leaving. Judging or reinnnn’s words, Mushi is most likely to join or perhaps found a new team which might not be SEA based.
