ESL pioneers 1v1 tournament in Germany

The Electronic Sports League is currently hosting a very interesting new style of DotA tournament!

The 1v1 tournament is being held between 16 German qualifiers who will battle it out for a 1st prize of 100 Euros, with 2nd and 3rd place recieving 75 Euros and 25 Euros respectively.

The mode for the tournament will be -arshom which is sure to be an interesting test of skill, considering no one will be able to know before hand which heros they will be playing.

There are a few specific rules for this tournament (both players can agree to ban the crow, one blademail per player etc.) and before the game starts each player has to add three computer slots to their team to reduce the amount of gold they start with.

Good luck to all those competing and we can only hope this style of tournament catches on in a more international forum!

Links
esl.eu/de/dota/news - Tournament page (In German)