Indeed, the biggest competitive Dota 2 event in the world is about to take place starting off tomorrow. Yet, up till now we still had no idea regarding the Group Stage. Accordingly, we finally have an update from Valve. Read on to see how The International 10 Groups Stage has been drawn!
The International 10 Groups – How Do They Stand?
Classically, The International has always followed a similar format.
Over in the Group Stage, here’s how it’s going to work. With 18 teams split into two groups of 9, each group will play a round-robin. Specifically, that means each team will play one another once in a BO2 match.
Here are your groups for the upcoming and exciting event:
Group A:
- Alliance
- Evil Geniuses
- Invictus Gaming
- OG
- T1
- Team Aster
- Team Undying
- Thunder Predator
- Virtus.pro
Group B:
- beastcoast
- Elephant
- Fnatic
- PSG.LGD
- Quincy Crew
- SG esports
- Team Secret
- Team Spirit
- ViCi Gaming
What are they playing for? Well, the top 4 teams from each group will be sent to the Upper Bracket of the Playoffs stage.
Otherwise, the remaining teams, except for the Bottom teams who will be eliminated, will be seeded into the Lower Bracket.
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