King’s Cup will feature eight South and North American teams battling across two weeks for a direct invite spot at the BTS Minor from December.
The most intriguing part from Beyond the Summit’s announcement is the rumors confirmation of Digital Chaos planning to develop a South American team. Without any roster announcement included, the Kings Cup: America will feature seven directly invited teams plus one more coming from open qualifiers. From those seven direct invitees, two of the teams are Digital Chaos and Digital Chaos.SA.
King’s Cup Participants:
compLexity Gaming
is.GG
Leviathan
Digital Chaos
Infamous
? Digital Chaos.SA
TBA
TBD (open qualifiers)
The event is based on a league format with best of two round robin series from which top four teams will advance to a single elimination best-of-three playoffs bracket. The winners will be awarded "a special direct invite to the BTS Minor, DOTA Summit 8, before regional qualifiers begin in November."
With the league play set to unfold from 6th to 20th of September, the open qualifiers for King’s Cup: America will take place this coming Monday, September 4th. Registrations for all those interested to participate at the open qualifiers can be done here.
The entire King’s Cup league play and playoffs stage will be broadcast live from the BTS studios, the commentary and analysis being delivered by:
Dakota 'KotLGuy' Cox
Grant 'GranDGranT' Harris
Dominik 'Lacoste' Stipic
Jack 'KBBQ' Chen
The BTS Minor LAN event is scheduled for mid-December this year, with $300,000 prize money on the line and qualifier points counting for The International 2018 direct invites.
