The eight final participating teams for Starladder|i-League invitational have been set and the LAN playoffs will commence next week on April 14th in Kiev, Ukraine at CyberSport Arena.
With only one week untill the tournament starts, a slight change in team line-ups has occurred as Vici Gaming, which was one of the directly invited teams, announcing that they are once again facing visa problems, therefore they won’t be able to attend the event in Kiev.
Starladder took the decision of replacing them with OG and in the same announcement Natus Vincere and Virtus.Pro were revealed to be the last two invited teams.
Although the main team of VG will not participate at this Invitational series of Starladder|i-League, the second squad of the organization, Vici Gaming Reborn has qualified via H-Cup and will be present in Kiev next week to represent Chinese Dota along with LGD Gaming.
For all the teams involved this will be the first LAN event after the great Spring Shuffle and the first time we will see the new rosters of LGD, Vega Squadron, Virtus.Pro and VG Reborn in action, live, on the stage.
Starladder|i-League Invitational participating teams:
Alliance (invited)
OG (invited)
MVP Phoenix (invited)
LGD Gaming (invited)
Virtus.Pro (invited)
Natus Vincere (invited)
Vega Squadron (qualified)
Vici Gaming Reborn (qualified)
The eight final teams will battle out across four days, from April 14th to 17th in a double elimination bracket for a share of the $100,000 prize pool money. The final bracket for the event has not been made public yet, but the prize pool distribution is certain :
1st place: $ 45,000
2nd place; $ 20,000
3rd place: $12,000
4th place: $7,500
5th/6th place: $5,000
7th/8th place: $2,500
source: starladder.com
