The new Pro Dota Cup tournament will see two separate competitions for Europe and America, both with a $5000 prize pool, eight invited teams and open qualifiers.
A day after Pro Dota Cup announced their new partnership with Azubu, they released information on the new season of the online tournament.
Scheduled to take place over the course of eight days, from 14th to 21st of December, Pro Dota Cup has also prepared open qualifiers for both US and EU regions.
The open qualifiers will be held on FaceIT between 12 to 13 December with 256 slots available for the teams that want to give it a try. The eight teams resulted from the open qualifiers will meet the eight directly invited ones and will battle into the main event single elimination bracket.
For European open qualifiers sign up HERE.
For US open qualifiers sign up HERE.
Confirmed teams for EU main event:
STARK eSports
ARCADE eSports
Yellow Submarine
Fantastic Five
Hellraisers
Team Spirit
Prodota Gaming
Confirmed teams for US main event
Archon
Elite Wolves
VoidBoys
Not Today
Unknown.xiu
Tshow
Artyk Gaming
Shazam (ex- C9)
Each region will have a $5000 prize pool money spread as follows:
1st place: $3500
2nd place: $1000
3rd place: $500