Six of the TI 7 participants will face off in a last battle on the Chinese soil before heading to Seattle to compete in Valve’s most important tournament.
Mars Dota 2 League 2017 is the battleground, where four of the directly invited team to TI 7 and two of the qualified ones will test their ideas in regards to the latest patch which was implemented this week.
OG, Evil Geniuses, Newbee and Invictus Gaming are the four directly invited teams to TI 7 that will compete starting tomorrow in MDL 2017, along with LGD Gaming and LGD Forever Young, both also attending TI 7 via the Chinese regional qualifiers. Vici Gaming, who finished fourth at the TI 7 qualifiers, and Clutch Gamers, who lost the TI 7 train in the lower bracket finals of the SEA qualifiers, are also in China to make the best out of the competitive season that will soon end.
MDL is 2017 is one of the three events left to be played before The International 7. It will take place starting tomorrow, the 5th of July till the 9th in Wuhan, China at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in two phases. The first two days of the event, 5-6 July, the eight participants will battle each other out in a best-of-one Round Robin group stage counting for the playoffs double elimination bracket seeding. The top four teams in the group will advance in the upper bracket while the bottom four teams will continue their road to the MDL title via lower bracket games. The good news for these last four teams is that the MDL 2017 playoffs lower bracket rounds are all best-of-three, opposed to first round being bo1 as many other organizers are preferring to run for their events.
Here is the full list of MDL 2017 participants:
Newbee
Invictus Gaming
OG
Evil Geniuses
Clutch Gamers
Vici Gaming
LGD Gaming
LGD Forever Young
The first day of the group stage will kick off in grand style with an OG vs Evil Geniuses match and it will witness many great other games, as the two LGDs will also take on each other. Two series will be played at the same time during the group stage and the entire English coverage will be delivered to you by Beyond the Summit on their twitch.tv channels. The Chinese broadcast can be found on the main and second stream of Humao.com
The full schedule of day one group stage matches is as follows:
Day One, July 5:
04:00 CEST/10:00 CST: Clutch Gamers vs Newbee
04:00 CEST/10:00 CST: OG vs Evil Geniuses
05:15 CEST/11:15 CST: Invictus Gaming vs Vici Gaming
05:15 CEST/11:15 CST: LGD Gaming vs LGD Forever Young
06:30 CEST/12:30 CST: Clutch Gamers vs Evil Geniuses
06:30 CEST/12:30 CST: Invictus Gaming vs Newbee
07:45 CEST/13:45 CST: LGD Gaming vs OG
07:45 CEST/13:45 CST: LGD Forever Young vs Vici Gaming
09:00 CEST/15:00 CST: Clutch Gamers vs Invictus Gaming
10:15 CEST/16:15 CST: LGD Gaming vs Evil Geniuses
11:30 CEST/17:30 CST: LGD Forever Young vs Newbee
12:45 CEST/18:45 CST: Vici Gaming vs OG
14:00 CEST/ 20:00 CST: Clutch Gamers vs LGD Gaming
15:15 CEST/21:15 CST: LGD Forever Young vs Invictus Gaming
This is the seventh edition of Mars Dota 2 League and besides a kick-ass Battle Fury trophy, which is of course reserved for the tournament winners, Mars Media has to offer a $250,000 prize pool distributed as follows:
1st place: $112,500
2nd place: $50,000
3rd place: $31,250
4th place: $18,750
5th/6th place: $12,500
7th/8th place: $6,250
