The third season of DotaPit has been announced and this time around the online league will feature a starting prizepool of $80,000 with a crowdfunding option that features a Compendium.
The DotaPit League is back for a third season and has increased its prizepool. The tournament is set to feature a prizepool of at least $80,000, with the community being able to contribute to it once again. This time around however, a compendium will be available to be purchased, as well as a separate treasure chest and a set. All three options will let fans contribute to the overall prizepool, with 25% of compendium sales, which also includes cosmetic items, and 10% of both treasure chest and set sales adding up to the final prizepool.
The overall teamlist may have decreased, but certainly not lost in quality. 10 teams have been invited, with two more spots open through qualifiers. The overall 12 teams will then be split into two groups, which will play out a round-robin bo2 format. The last placed team of each group will be eliminated with the top two being seeded into the upper bracket. The 3rd-5th placed teams of each group will be put into the lower bracket. Up until the finals of the upper and lower bracket, every match is a bo3, from there on out they will be bo5s.
The ten invited teams are:
Evil Geniuses
Team Fire
Cloud 9
Team Secret
Team Tinker
Alliance
Hellraisers
Virtus.pro
? Virtus.pro Polar
Team Empire
The qualifier will see eight teams compete in a double elimination bo3 playoff bracket and the top two will advance
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Power Rangers
compLexity Gaming
Denial eSports
4 Anchors and a SeaCaptain
mYinsanity
Basically Unknown
MeePwn'd (H4nn1, Fly, pieliedie, Xcalibur, w33ha)
The qualifiers are set to begin on January 20th, with the main event set to kick-off on February 12th. Coverage will once more be provided by HighGroundTV. It is also to note that the prizepool for the last season was paid out in under 15 days of its conclusion.
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