Two days before the first cross-regional Dota 2 action of 2022 is set to begin in Dubai, the tournament organizers have revealed the group stage drawings.
A total of ten teams coming from Europe, CIS, North America and Southeast Asia will be battling out in Dubai this week, from 2nd to 6th of March, for the championship title and a share of the AED 1,000,000 (≃ $272,482).
Gamers Galaxy: Invitational Series Dubai 2022 will kick off this coming Wednesday with the 10 teams split into two groups as follows:
Group A
Nigma Galaxy
Fnatic
Team Spirit
TSM
Tundra Esports
Group B
Nigma Galaxy SEA
Team Secret
OG
Virtus.pro
BOOM Esports
The group stage will be held in a round-robin format, best-of-one matches.
A last place finish in the groups means elimination from the tournament. The 3rd and 4th placed teams from each group will advance to a play-in stage, while the top two teams from each group will advance straight to the semifinals of the playoffs.
Play-ins will offer two spots to the double elimination playoffs bracket.
However, the four qualified teams for the play-in stage will fight in a single elimination bracket, best-of-three games for a second chance at making it into the playoffs. All the playoff matches will be a best-of-three affair with the grand finals being a best-of-five.
English broadcast for the entire tournament will be held on the Galaxy Racer Twitch.tv channel, HERE.
Due to the ongoing war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the Ukrainian company WePlay Holding, who is a broadcasting partner for the event and initially should have run the Russian language broadcast, will not organize the RU broadcast anymore.
According to an announcement made by the company, the Russian broadcast is open for the community. Additionally, WePlay has terminated all partnership agreements with Russian and Belarusian companies.
