Five weeks into the competition, phase 2 of The Defense saw top teams entering the mix to fight up against the six teams that qualified from phase 1.
Group A saw Alliance and OG marching away step by step. Meanwhile Group B stayed a lot closer. Five teams stayed in the race for a really long time until Team Liquid finally stood out to secure the first place. Vega Squadron and 4 Clovers & Lepricon ended up tied for the second position. Unfortunately both Vega Squadron as well as 4 Clovers & Lepricon have withdrew their participation for the finals, so that our DotA 2 team will participate on the offline finals from 5th of december to 6th of december in Berlin.
Our opponents in Berlin will be:
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Since qualifying directly for the Defense 5 , OG went off and won the Fall Major, coming all the way from the lower-bracket to defeat Team Secret 3-1 in the Grand Finals. OG ended up 1st in both groupstages in The Defense 5, finishing 9-1 in Stage 1 and 8-2 in Stage 2. The first Major title holders will be in Jonkoping this week for DreamLeague Season 4 before then travelling down to Berlin. |
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Team Liquid have not done too badly for themselves since their formation in September. They placed 4th at the Nanyang Championships in Singapore last month, as well as taking the D2CL Season 6 title after a 3-1 victory over Team Empire. They unfortunately missed out on the Fall Majors, which means the prospect of them going up against OG at the Defense 5 LAN is certainly something to look forward to. |
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Alliance were cruising heading into the Fall Majors, defeating the odds to qualify for it after defeating NiP’s megacreeps. However, it all went horribly wrong when they reached Frankfurt, and a rather embarassing defeat to ph Mineski should be Alliance’s trigger to step up their game. The Swedes drew with OG when the pair met in the Defense 5 groupstage, and Alliance could definitely cause upsets if they get back into their groove this week at DreamLeague Season IV. |
We are looking forward to seeing some nice and thrilling DotA 2 matches!
General Information
The event will go down on the weekend of December 5th & 6th in a double elimination, best of three format with four teams.
Prizepool
The base prize pool set by joinDota is $75,000. 25% of proceeds from all purchases of the DotaTV ticket and item bundle will be added to the prize pool.
The official prize pool will be about $77,000.
- 1st place: 50%
- 2nd place: 25%
- 3rd place: 15%
- 4th place: 10%
