Dota Pro Circuit

Dota Pro Circuit
Genre Dota 2 professional tournament circuit
Frequency Annual
Years active 2017–present
Organized by Valve Corporation
Website www.dota2.com/procircuit

The Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) is a professional competitive ranking system of the video game, Dota 2. It was introduced in 2017 by the game's developer, Valve Corporation, to determine which teams are eligible to obtain a direct invitation to The International, an annual tournament directly administrated by them which acts as the premier tournament for the game.[1][2]

Format

In the Dota Pro Circuit, any Dota 2 tournament that has at least one team from the North American, South American, Southeast Asian, Chinese, European, and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) regions, a minimum prize pool of $500,000, which Valve adds $500,000 of their own towards, and concludes with a LAN finals is classified as a "Major".[3] In addition, a "Minor" championship tier exists and follows the same rules, but with a minimum prize pool of $150,000 instead.[3] For the Circuit, Valve awards "Qualifying Points" for individual players on a team that finishes in the top four of a tournament, which are publicly listed on a leaderboard and award direct invitations to The International for the eighth best ranking teams, a practice that was previously done manually by Valve and criticized for being non-transparent and unpredictable.[4][5][6][7] The eight teams with the highest DPC qualifying points received direct invitations to The International 2018.[1][8] To avoid conflicting dates, Valve directly manages the scheduling of the entire circuit.[5]

For the first season, teams' scores were determined by the total score of the top three point-earning players on them, with points being carried over if a player changes teams during the season.[6] Qualifying points are weighed more heavily towards Majors than Minors.[5] The qualifying points in every tournament awarded 50% to the champions, 30% to the runners-up, and 10% to the semi-finalists. If there was a third-place decider match held, the points were awarded 15% to the 3rd-place finishers and 5% to the 4th-place finishers.[9][10] The ranking of a team was calculated only by the accumulation of the top three players with the highest qualifying points. A team was allowed to change its roster twice in a specified time period, but would automatically lose its eligibility to obtain a direct invitation to The International if they changed its roster after the second mid-season roster period had passed.[9]

Starting with the 2018–2019 season, there were a number of adjustments to the rules, with the primary one being that both Major and Minor events are held in pairs, with qualifiers for each set to run in exclusively scheduled windows, as direct invites to them are now forbidden. In contrast with the previous season, the overall number of them decreased from 22 to 10, with the season beginning in September 2018 and concluding in June 2019. The number of direct International 2019 invites was increased from eight to twelve, with each of the six regions only given one qualifier slot.[11][12] The qualifiers for Majors will run first, and teams who fail to qualify for it will be eligible to compete in the Minor qualifiers a few days later. The winner of a Minor tournament will be granted a reserved slot in the associated Major. Valve will also remove roster locks that previously prevented teams that made changes mid-season from qualifying for points for the season. Instead, all points will be directly assigned to teams, rather than individual players. Removing a player from the roster will reduce the team's total points by 20 percent, with adding a replacement player having no penalty.[13] In addition, Valve also implemented a rule that only allows for a single team owned in an multi-team organization to compete in The International and the qualifiers leading up to them. The rule also includes cases in which individual players have financial ties to other teams.[14]

Seasons

2017–2018

  Minor   Major
Tournament Dates Location Organizer(s) Winner
Starladder i-League Invitational #3[15] October 11–15, 2017 Kiev Starladder European Union Team Liquid
PGL Open Bucharest[16] October 19–22, 2017 Bucharest PGL Philippines Mineski
ESL One Hamburg 2017[17] October 26–29, 2017 Hamburg ESL Russia Virtus.pro
AMD Sapphire Dota PIT League[18] November 2–5, 2017 Split One Game Agency European Union Team Liquid
Perfect World Masters[19] November 20–26, 2017 Shanghai Perfect World China Newbee
DreamLeague Season 8[20] December 1–3, 2017 Jönköping DreamHack European Union Team Secret
MDL Macau[21] December 4–10, 2017 Macau Mars Media European Union OG
Dota Summit 8[22] December 13–17, 2017 Los Angeles Beyond the Summit Russia Virtus.pro
Captains Draft 4[23] January 4–7, 2018 Washington, D.C. Moonduck European Union Team Secret
ESL One Genting 2018[24] January 23–28, 2018 Pahang ESL China Newbee
Starladder i-League Invitational #4[25] February 1–4, 2018 Shanghai Starladder European Union Team Liquid
ESL One Katowice 2018[26] February 20–25, 2018 Katowice ESL Russia Virtus.pro
The Bucharest Major[27] March 9–11, 2018 Bucharest PGL Russia Virtus.pro
GESC Indonesia Dota 2 Minor[28] March 16–18, 2018 Jakarta GESC United States Evil Geniuses
DreamLeague Season 9[29] March 21–25, 2018 Stockholm DreamHack European Union Team Secret
Dota 2 Asia Championships 2018[30] March 29 – April 7, 2018 Shanghai Perfect World Philippines Mineski
Starladder i-League Invitational #5[31] April 12–15, 2018 Kiev Starladder United States OpTic Gaming
EPICENTER XL[32] April 27 – May 7, 2018 Moscow Epic Esports Events China PSG.LGD
GESC Thailand Dota 2 Minor[33] May 11–13, 2018 Bangkok GESC United States VGJ.Storm
MDL Changsha Major[34] May 14–20, 2018 Changsha Mars Media China PSG.LGD
ESL One Birmingham 2018[35][36] May 23–27, 2018 Birmingham ESL Russia Virtus.pro
China Dota 2 Supermajor[37][38] June 2–10, 2018 Shanghai
  • Perfect World
  • PGL
 European Union Team Liquid

2018–2019

  Minor   Major
Tournament Dates[14] Location Organizer(s) Winner
DreamLeague Season 10[39] October 29 – November 4, 2018 Stockholm DreamHack TBD
Kuala Lumpur Major[40] November 9–18, 2018 Kuala Lumpur PGL TBD
TBA January 7–13, 2019 TBA TBA TBD
TBA January 17–27, 2019 TBA TBA TBD
TBA March 4–10, 2019 TBA TBA TBD
TBA March 14–24, 2019 TBA TBA TBD
TBA April 22–28, 2019 TBA TBA TBD
TBA May 2–12, 2019 TBA TBA TBD
TBA June 10–16, 2019 TBA TBA TBD
TBA June 20–30, 2019 TBA TBA TBD

References

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