A total of 16 teams around the world are set for the upcoming $1,000,000 DreamLeague Season 22. The tournament will be held online, but will have all the participating teams heading to bootcamps across Europe next month to compete against each other from February 25 to Match 10.
Last year,when ESL One introduced the ESL Pro Tour (EPT) to Dota 2 as well, the DreamLeague tournaments became a part of it, meaning that each season is awarding the teams not only a substantial prize in money, but also EPT points. With each ESL event, the EPT Leaderboard determines who gets a direct invite to the next EPT event and who has to go through open and/or closed qualifiers.
For this upcoming season of DreamLeague, four teams secured their spots via EPT points. Gaimin Gladiators, Team Liquid, BetBoom Team and Xtreme Gaming were spared from the qualifier process while 12 more teams made their way through regional qualifier matches.
DreamLeague Season 22 attending teams
Gaimin Gladiators (EPT Leaderboard)
Team Liquid (EPT Leaderboard)
BetBoom Team (EPT Leaderboard)
Xtreme Gaming (EPT Leaderboard)
Azure Ray (China qualifiers)
G2.iG (China qualifiers)
Aurora Gaming (SEA qualifiers)
Team Spirit (EEU qualifiers)
Virtus.pro (EEU qualifiers)Klim Sani4 (EEU qualifiers)
OG (WEU qualifiers) 
Team Secret (WEU qualifiers) 
Tundra Esports (WEU qualifiers)
Heroic (SA qualifiers) 
Shopify Rebellion (NA qualifiers)
DreamLeague Season 22 prize pool and EPT points distribution
- 1st place: $300,000 & 4,200 EPT Points
- 2nd place: $175,000 & 3,500 EPT Points
- 3rd place: $120,000 & 2,800 EPT Points
- 4th place: $85,000 & 2,240 EPT Points
- 5th place: $52,500 & 1,680 EPT Points
- 6th place: $47,500 & 1,400 EPT Points
- 7th place: $42,500 & 840 EPT Points
- 8th place: $37,500 & 560 EPT Points
- 9th/10th place: $25,000 & 350 EPT Points
- 11th /12th place: $20,000 & 175 EPT Points
- 13th/14th place: $15,000 & 98 EPT Points
- 15th/16th place: $10,000 & 42 EPT Points
A total of three DreamLeague events will be part of the 2024 ESL Pro Tour as well as two ESL One LAN tournaments. DreamLeague Season 21 and ESL One Kuala Lumpur which took place towards the end of 2023 were already a part of the current EPT. The upcoming DreamLeague Season 22 and ESL One Birmingham will determine which teams will secure a direct invite to this year’s Riyadh Masters event.
