With all the hysteria that went on with the release of the invites and qualifiers, one could have missed that The International qualifiers this year is open for everyone and up to 1,024 teams per region can have a crack at the biggest tournament in Dota 2 history.
Players wishing to compete in the potentially 10 million plus dollar tournament is to sign up on FACEIT or Perfect World's website. You can register for the tournament here if you are in China and here if you are in anywhere else in the world.
The open qualifiers for all other region except China will run on 16th-17th May, just shortly before I-League Season 3. Milos 'Mikey' Nedeljkovic, head of community management from FACEIT told us that their system are more than capable to handle such a huge amount of ongoing games and are looking forward two days of non-stop Dota till the winners of all three regions are crowned.
"This years TI5 you don't have to be only a viewer, but you can also be a player and take part in the biggest eSport event together with your team and friends. Our system will automatically set you up with other stacks to compete in the tournament," Nedeljkovic boasts.
Below are some info about the registration of The International 5 on FACEIT:
Schedule:
Saturday, 16 May:
Check-in start time:
SEA: 11AM SGT
Europe: 11AM CEST
Americas: 11AM CDT
Qualifier Day 1 start time:
SEA: 1PM SGT
Europe: 1PM CEST
Americas: 1PM CDT
Rounds played: Round of 1024 (BO1), Round of 512 (BO1), Round of 256 (BO1), Round of 128 (BO1)
Sunday, 17 May:
Qualifier Day 2 start time:
SEA: 1PM SGT
Europe: 1PM CEST
Americas: 1PM CDT
Rounds played: Round of 64 (BO1), Round of 32 (BO1), Round of 16 (BO1), Round of 8 (BO1), Quarter Finals (BO1), Semi Finals (BO3), Final (BO3)
Tournament enrollment:
To take part in the open qualifiers every player needs to register an account on FACEIT, be part of a team and register the team to the tournament.
Account registration and game region settings:
- Head over to http://play.faceit.com and register an account
- After logging in to the main page, activate Dota 2 as game and verify the account
- Upon completion of the verification, select a region you want to play the qualifier in (EU, US – select this when playing from the Americas – or SEA)
Create a team:
- Click on the button “Register a Premade Team”, which you can find in the right top of the page
- Choose a teamname
- Choose a teamtag
- Click the “Register” button; if a team name or tag is taken already it will let the creator know and give the option to choose a different name
- Once registering a team is completed, players can invite their friends to their team as long as they have registered an account on the platform and have added the specific game the premade team is registered for
- If a player has not invited his/her friends he will not be able to search them using the “Invite player” search bar
Joining the tournament:
It will be possible to reserve a slot for your team up till 2 hours before the tournament start. The following steps must be taken by the team captain:
- Click on the Dota 2 game icon on the homepage to reach the game dashboard. Be sure to have selected the correct region (region selection is available under game settings in the dropdown menu top right corner)
- Once on the game dashboard, click on The International 5 Open Qualifier to open the tournament page
- Click on “Join with Premade”
- Choose team roster by selecting 5 players from your premade team
- Press confirm when a full team of 5 players has been selected
- Once the team has been chosen and confirmed, the team will be automatically added to the tournament
- Make 100% sure to select the correct roster, as for this tournament stand-ins are not allowed. In case a team would need to change the team roster before the tournament start, the captain needs to cancel the previous registration and register again with the 5 correct players.
Checking-in:
The check-in phase will begin 2 hours before the tournament start and during this phase captains of each team must press the “Check-in” button on the tournament page in order to confirm that their team is ready to play the tournament.
Please remember that ALL teams must check-in in order to play in the tournament. This includes teams which reserved slots to the tournament before the check-in phase started. Any teams which have not checked in 30 minutes before the tournament is set to start will be removed. This allows other teams which are ready and willing to play to join and check-in to the tournament.
For more information, go to their their registration page.
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