The International 2022 Survival Guide

In less than 24 hours, TI11 will kick off in Singapore with 20 of the best teams competing for the lion's share of the prize pool and the Aegis of Champions. 

TI11 is finally here and GosuGamers has you covered with a comprehensive, one-stop guide to all things TI11 to keep you in the know. 

No other event rivals The International and this year will be no exception. Staggering prize pools, prime cut games between teams of the highest caliber, gut-wrenching action, emotional storylines, top-notch production, unique and engaging content, and perhaps a surprise or two will create the landscape that fans around the world will talk about for the rest of the year and aspiring players will etch into their hearts as their goal and dream for next year. 

Two weeks of glorious Dota 2 will kick off tomorrow with the Group Stage. Twenty teams will begin, and only one will seize the Aegis of Champions and the lion's share of the more than $15 MILLION prize pool. 

• Read TI11 prize pool is more than half a million behind TI7 a month after Battle Pass release

The International 2022 Teams

Invited teams based on DPC points

• PSG.LGD (China)
• Team Aster (China)
• OG (Western Europe)
• Gaimin Gladiators (Western Europe)
• Tundra Esports (Western Europe)
• beastcoast (South America)
• Thunder Awaken (South America)
• Evil Geniuses (North America)
• TSM  (North America)
• BOOM Esports (Southeast Asia)
• Fnatic (Southeast Asia)

Qualified Teams

• Soniqs (North America)
• Hokori (South America)
• Entity (Western Europe)
• BetBoom Team (Eastern Europe)
• Royal Never Give Up (China)
• Talon Esports (Southeast Asia)

 

Last Chance Qualifier Teams

• Team Secret (Western Europe)
• Team Liquid (Western Europe)
   

The International 2022 Group stage

The International 2022 Group Stage Format

20 teams will start the journey to the grand finals tomorrow, October, 15th. Over the course of four days, teams will battle it out for the main event seeding and two teams from each group will fail to realize their TI11 dreams.

• Group Stage - October 15th - October 18th, 2022
  • Two groups of ten teams
  • Single round-robin
  • All matches are Bo2
  • Top four teams in each group advance to the Upper Bracket of the Main Event
  • 5th-8th place teams advance to the Lower Bracket of the Main Event
  • Remaining teams in each group are eliminated

The International 2022 Group Stage Schedule:

• Group Stage - Day 1: October 15th
• Group Stage - Day 2: October 16th
• Group Stage - Day 3: October 17th
• Group Stage - Day 4: October 18th

The International 2022 Main Event format

 

Main Event - October 20th - October 23rd, 2022 & October 29th - October 30th, 2022

• Sixteen teams play in a double-elimination bracket.
• Eight teams begin in the Upper Bracket, eight in the Lower Bracket.

The International 2022 Broadcasts

The event will be officially streamed in five different languages - English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese. In addition, there will be other streams with various languages available for fans across the globe. 

In 2019, the peak concurrent viewership on Twitch.tv of the DOTA 2 TI9 championships reached almost 1.08 million, up from 735 thousand viewers a year earlier. 

English:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 |  Stream #5

Russian:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 |  Stream #5

Chinese:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 | Stream #5

Spanish Streams:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 | Stream #5

Portuguese Streams:

Twitch:  Main Channel |  Stream #2 |  Stream #3 |  Stream #4 | Stream #5

The International 2022

The International in Singapore will be the largest Dota tournament in history featuring 30 world-class teams battling out on the road to the Aegis of Champions across 4 consecutive weekends.

TI11 is expected to be held in Singapore from October 8th (starting with the offline/LAN last chance qualifiers) to October 30th with the grand finals. 

• Read more about the schedule and format changes for The International 2022.

On 22nd January 2022, it was announced that the second and third-place teams from each region's qualifiers would compete in the Last Chance Qualifier LAN event prior to The International to decide the final two qualification spots - thus expanding The International 2022 from 18 to 20 teams.