What to watch this week; Dota 2 The International 2023 Edition

The International 2023 is about to start and there is so much at stake and a LOT of games to watch. Here's what to watch this week. 

This week The International 2023 will commence in Seattle, Washington with 20 teams heading into the group stage. At the end of the first part of the journey to The International, four teams will be eliminated and 16 teams will have a chance to compete in the second phase. 

• Read The TI12 groups have been announced

The action will begin each day at 19:00 CEST. The first two days are round-robin two-game series. The last two days are best-of-three series to determine bracket seeding. 

Every.single.game is important and should yield a thrilling start to the event. 

The International 2023 Group Stage

Unlike previous years, The International for this year is split into two distinct phases; the group stage and playoffs (until the top 8) are announced as under the phase The Road to The International, while the playoffs for the remaining 8 teams are announced as The International itself.

Group Stage Format

20 teams will start the journey to the grand finals tomorrow, October, 12th. Over the course of four days, teams will battle it out for the main event seeding and one team from each group will fail to realize their TI12 dreams.

• Group Stage - October 12th - October 15th, 2023
  • Phase One
    • Four groups of five teams each
    • Single round-robin
    • All series are Bo2
    • Top two teams in each group will get matched with opponents from either the 3rd or 4th place teams in the opposite group (A/B and C/D) for phase two
    • The bottom team in each group is eliminated

TI12 Group A

•  9Pandas

• Entity

• Evil Geniuses

• Team SMG

• Team Spirit

TI12 Group B

• Azure Ray

• BetBoom Team

• Shopify Rebellion

• Team Liquid

• Thunder Awaken

TI12 Group C

• beastcoast

• Gaimin Gladiators

• LGD Gaming

• nouns

• Virtus.pro

TI12 Group D

• Keyd Stars

• PSG Quest

• Talon Esports

• TSM

• Tundra Esports

The International 2023 Broadcasts

The event will be officially streamed in five different languages - English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese. In addition, there will be other streams with various languages available for fans across the globe. 

English:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 |  Stream #5

Russian:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 |  Stream #5

Chinese:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 | Stream #5

Spanish Streams:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 | Stream #5

Portuguese Streams:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 | Stream #5