Tobiwan, Blitz, Merlini, Lyrical, are all heading to Bucharest to complete a marvelous ten members broadcast team for the second minor of the Dota Pro Circuit.
It’s almost half a year since Paul 'Redeye' Chaloner last time hosted a Dota 2 event, at the end of April, at the Kiev Major. He was not part of this year’s International broadcast team, but with the heavily minor/ majors stacked new competitive season, we will surely get to see more of him. The first event announcing Redeye in the host chair is PGL Open Bucharest, held October 19-22 at the PGL offices from Bucharest, Romania.
Six of the best commentators and analysts of the scene will join Redeye in Bucharest to make the viewers experience a memorable one. The full broadcast team for the four-day minor event is as follows:
Host:
Paul 'Redeye' Chaloner
Casters:
Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson
Gabriel 'Lyrical' Cruz
Analysts:
Austin 'Capitalist' Walsh
William 'Blitz' Lee
Chan 'WinteR' Litt Binn
Ioannis 'Fogged' Loucas
Ben 'Merlini' Wu
Observers:
Johan 'Weppas' Westberg
Rikard 'skrff' Holm Melin
PGL Open Bucharest is the second minor of the Pro Circuit and it comes with $300,000 prize pool on the line and 300 Circuit points counting towards The International 2018 direct invites. The event will be held in two stages, a GSL group stage followed by a single elimination bracket. Eight teams, six qualified and two directly invited ones, will enter the battle in the GSL group stage, with only four of them making it into the second stage. The top four teams will receive apart from the prize money, circuit points.
PGL Open Bucharest prize pool and Dota Circuit Points (DCP) distribution:
1st place: $130,000 + 150 DCP
2nd place: $65,000 + 90 DCP
3rd/4th place: $30,000 + 30 DCP
5th/6th place:$15,000
7th/8th place: $7,500
