What should you be watching in the Dota 2 scene this week? What we suggest might shock you!
Elite League just came to an end last night crowing Xtreme Gaming the champions after two weeks of competition. The Chinese team was able to usurp Team Falcons with a 3:1 victory.
Prior to the event Dota 2 has enjoyed qualifiers, leagues, and events one after another. There has never been a more active time in competition (ok, a hyperbole on our part but it does feel that way) – PGL Wallachia Season 1 qualifiers, DreamLeague Season 23 qualifiers, BetBoom Dacha, DreamLeague Season 22… the list goes on and that is just over the last two months.
And that's not all! Next Monday, April 22, ESL One Birmingham 2024 will kick off with 12 teams competing for the lion's share of the $1,000,000 prize pool.
So in this (seemingly rare) week-long breather, we suggest taking a few moments to smell the flowers and touch grass and prepare yourself for the Dota 2 spring.
Don't forget Valve announced a few days ago that the Crownfall update would arrive sometime in the middle of April. In the next few days, we will be graced with the presence of Ring Master in Dota 2.
ESL One Birmingham 2024
ESL One Birmingham 2024 Teams
Team Liquid (EPT leaderboard) 
Gaimin Gladiators (EPT leaderboard) 
BetBoom Team (EPT leaderboard) 
Xtreme Gaming (EPT leaderboard) 
Team Falcons (MENA qualifiers) 
Tundra Esports (WEU qualifiers)
Team Spirit (EEU qualifiers)
OG (replacement for 1Win)
G2.iG (China qualifiers)
Talon Esports (SEA qualifiers)
Shopify Rebellion (NA qualifiers)
Heroic
- Prize pool: $1,000,000
- Total EPT Points: 26,640
- Tournament Dates: Apr 22 - 28
ESL One Birmingham 2024 Format
- Group Stage - April 22 - April 24, 2024
- Two single round-robin groups of six teams each
- All series consist of two games
- Top two teams from each group advance to upper bracket of playoffs
- 3rd to 4th place teams from each group advance to lower bracket of playoffs
- Remaining teams are eliminated
- Click here for Group Stage tiebreaker rules
- Playoffs - April 26 - April 28, 2024
- Double-elimination bracket
- All matches except Grand Final are Bo3
- Grand Final is Bo5
ESL One Birmingham 2024 Prize Pool
$1,000,000 and 26,640 EPT Points are spread among the participants as seen below:
- 1st place: $300,000 and 6,400 points
- 2nd place: $175,000 and 4,800 points
- 3rd place: $120,000 and 4,000 points
- 4th place: $85,000 and 3,200 points
- 5th-6th place: $57,500 and 2,240 points
- 7th-8th place: $47,500 and 1,040 points
- 9th-10th place: $30,000 and 560 points
- 11th-12th place: $25,000 and 280 points
ESL One LAN tournament will be hosted in Birmingham in the second part of April. The last time ESL One was in the English city was in 2019 when Team Secret took the championship title, trophy, and lion's share of the $300,000 prize pool after besting Evil Geniuses 3:2 in the grand finals. Another ESL One LAN event was scheduled for March 2020, but was canceled due to the CoronaVirus Pandemic. That event was rescheduled to online only.
