Further details are released about the ESL Major Series One. 24 teams will be playing each season, top 8 of each season will be automatically invited to the next one.
Yesterday the EMS One was announced, check the news out in case you missed it. Today more details are revealed about the format.
Regions
- Europe
- North America
Team Selection
24 teams will be participating in each season. The top 8 from a prior season get invited to the next one. Naturally, there is no prior season at hand, so 8 teams will be chosen based on applications. The remaining 16 teams will be coming from the A-Series which is an ongoing league running alongside EMS One, which is running right now. Future seasons will have 12 teams from the A-Series and 4 teams from ESL Pro Series.
How to take part?
Check out this page for further info about applying for an invitation aswell as signing the A-Series.
Format
The 24 teams will play four single elimination online cups (the invited 8 will start in Round 2 whereas others will start in Round 1). Similiar to the Farm4Fame system of DotA, teams will gather ranking points by playing through the bracket cups. Winning a cup will also result in $600. The 12 teams with the highest ranking points move on to the groupstage (4 groups, 4 teams in each) where round robin is played. To make it the complete 16, they are joined by 4 teams from the North American A-series. Top 2 of each group (a total of 8 teams) will be qualified for the offline playoffs played through a best-of-three single elimination bracket. The first season will be starting February 12 and the offline playoffs to take place April 20 to 21th.
EMS One, Dota 2 prize pool - 2013
Season 1 - $39,000
Season 2 - $39,000
Season 3 - $39,000
Season 4 - $39,000
ESL (Electronic Sports League) has been around since 1997, currently has over 4 million registered users and has hosted numerous of tournaments in several languages over several different eSports and games. Most noticeable of those is the Intel Extreme Masters.
Source: ESL.eu
