Following the opening Tour of the Dota Pro Circuit, the community is gearing up for the first Major of the year. Accordingly, the Lima Major 2023 kicks off in the coming week. Indeed, featuring international competition and a $500,000 prize pool, this looks to be one of the top events of the year – read on to learn How to Watch this event below!
Event Background
For those unaware, the Dota Pro Circuit is the highest level of competitive Dota 2 in the world. Spread across multiple regions, it helps sort out the best from each continent. Moreover, these top teams are then invited to compete at global offline tournaments.
Namely, the Lima Major 2023 is the first episode of such competition. Taking place offline in Peru, the competition will run from 22nd February to 5th March, with $500,000 on the line. Featuring the top 18 teams in the world, here are your regional representatives:
Western Europe
- Team Liquid
- Gaimin Gladiators
- Tundra Esports
- Entity
Eastern Europe
- BetBoom Team
- Team Spirit
- HellRaisers
China
- PSG.LGD
- Team Aster
- Knights
- EHOME
Southeast Asia
- Execration
- Geek Slate
- Talon Esports
North America
- TSM
- Shopify Rebellion
- beastcoast
- Evil Geniuses
Apart from the prize, this event is historic as the first ever South American Dota Pro Circuti Major. Also, there are a tonne of Pro Circuit Points up for grabs – these will prove helpful to seed for The International at the end of the season.
Format
Typically, this event will be following the two stages of competition common for such Majors – Group Stage and Playoffs.
Firstly, the Group Stage will take place from 22nd February to 26th February 2023. Here, the 18 teams will be randomly divided into two groups of nine teams each. Within each group, a single round robin takes place where all teams face one another once, in BO2 matches.
Progression to the Playoffs follows the criteria below:
- Top 4 from each group – Upper Bracket of Playoffs
- 5-6th from each group – Lower Bracket of Playoffs
- Remaining teams – Eliminated
Moreover, the Playoffs will feature a double elimination bracket format. Taking place between February 28th to March 5th, this latter half will decide a winner. To elaborate, teams in the Lower Bracket risk elimination with a loss, while those in the Upper Bracket have a cushion of demoting to Lower Bracket.
Anyways, while all Bracket matches are BO3, the Grand Final looks to end it all in epic fashion thanks to a best-of-five structure.
Schedule for the Lima Major 2023
Considering that the groups are yet to be randomly drawn, we’re not in a position to describe the schedule, Regardless, we recommend visiting the official Dota 2 esports page in due time for a full schedule in your timezone.
Watch the Lima Major 2023 on esportsguide
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Predictions
So, considering the last time that the competition faced off was back at The International 2022, we can use this event to understand how the regions stand:
- #1 – Tundra Esports – WEU
- #2 – Team Secret – WEU
- #3 – Team Liquid – WEU
- #4 – Team Aster – China
As you can see, regardless of the many roster changes since, Western Europe looks to dominate this event.
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