For those who might have missed the most important news from the past week in competitive Dota 2 scene, here is a short recap.
The International 6 qualifiers
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The most important tournament of the year, The International 6 made most of last week’s main pages as the regional qualifiers were played. A total of eight teams, two from each region/ claimed their spot at TI6 via regional qualifiers and four more secured a Wild Card slot. The Wild Card will be played in Seattle ahead of the group stage and only two teams will get to compete in KeyArena from 8th to 13th of August.
The International 6 qualified teams:
Team Secret
Alliance
Evil Geniuses
Digital Chaos
Wings Gaming
Vici Gaming Reborn
TnC
Fnatic
Wild Card competitors:
Escape Gaming
compLexity Gaming
EHOME
Execration
iCG e-Sports Summer 2016: Iran's first major Dota2 event
Featuring a $60,000 prize pool split over 12 titles and a LAN finals, the iCG e-Sports Summer is set to be one of the biggest eSports event in Persian history. Anticipating 64 teams to participate in the LAN finals and many more in the online qualifiers, the organizers of this feast for Persian eSports fans will be holding the event at the Great Masala, Tehran from the 7th to 13th of August.
South Africa soon to establish itself in the eSports scene?
With the start of the new Digital Gaming League season in 2016, Telkom announced they would be holding a R1 million tournament ($65,000): The Telkom DGL Masters, with the largest prize pool South African eSports has offered to date. The tournament is split into 2 games, namely CS:GO and DotA 2, and is set to take place from the 7th to 9th October at the rAge Expo.
Only eight Multi-Gaming Organisations are invited:
Bravado Gaming
White Rabbit Gaming
Xperts at Total Chaos.
Damage Control.
Flipsid3 Tactics (South African division)
Veneration E-Sports
Aperture Gaming
Carbon eSports
Digital Chaos are the Champions of Dota 2 Canada Cup Season 7
A total of 16 teams made it to the playoffs after the qualifiers and the seeding group stage, eight making into the main event upper bracket, the other eight being placed in the lower bracket. Digital Chaos had a perfect run, without a single game dropped in their group and secured the upper bracket slot with ease. Once the playoffs started DC continued to dominate the competition and were the first to reach the best-of-five grand finals where they swept through Void Boys with a clean 3-0 victory.
Dota2 Canada Cup Season 7 final standings:
1st place, $12,000: Digital Chaos
2nd place, $6,000: Void Boys
3rd place, $2,000: FDL
Virtus.Pro drop their Dota2 team
Poor results and continuous disappointments led to drastic action from the Russian organization. The entire Virtus.Pro Dota 2 team was let go along with the managerial staff. According to the announcement their website, some of the players might remain with the organization and will be part of the new team.
Virtus Pro’s disbanded roster:
Ilya 'ALOHADANCE' Korobkin
Sergey 'G' Bragin
Maxim 'yoky-' Kim
Artem 'fng' Barshak
Alexander 'NoFear' Churochkin
Kaipi to no longer play with ComeWithMe
After making it to the round of 16 in the first European open qualifiers before getting eliminated by Macedonian team Global Challengers, and failing to achieve victory in the second European open qualifiers, Kaipi has started their post-TI reshuffle by dropping support player Craciunescu 'ComeWithMe' Alexandru. The team has yet to announce his replacement.
Organizers at KeyTV experienced a violent hiccup with the departure of Fnatic, Evil Geniuses and Team Secret, and rush to find replacements. Fnatic, Evil Geniuses and Team Secret’s departure from the event has forced Nanyang Dota Championships Season 2 organizers to improvise a way to replace them and with only two days left before the event will kick off, four Chinese teams have been added.
Nanyang Season 2 participating teams:
NewBee
LGD Gaming
Wings Gaming
Digital Chaos
Team Empire
WarriorsGaming.Unity
CDEC.Youth
Vici Gaming Reborn
