From Swiss Stage to Round Robin; Elite League advances to next stage

The Swiss Stage portion of Elite League has come to an end with eight teams making the cut to advance to the Round Robin stage. 

Elite League's long and drawn-out group stage portion is now halfway over. Sixteen teams entered the fray for the Swiss Stage (nine from qualifiers and seven invited), only eight survived to advance to the Round Robin stage. 

The Swiss Stage isn't something that has been used in Dota 2 often.  But what makes it fun is the more games won in a row, the fewer games needed to play to move ahead. This means teams that qualified or eliminated the earliest played less, while others that alternated between winning and losing had more. 

• Read Elite League Swiss stage team and hero statistics

Perhaps one of the most upsetting, but not surprising eliminations was that of  Nigma, who just can't seem to make things work despite their star-studded lineup featuring Amer "Miracle-" Al-Barkawi, Sumail "SumaiL" Hassan,  and Kuro "KuroKy" Salehi Takhasomi.

• Read Nigma Galaxy make an early exit from Elite League

They were eliminated at the hands of Team Secret, who also made an early exit soon after. 

There is no rest for the wicked though, the teams that advanced will immediately compete in the Round Robin stage beginning today, April 5th. 

The action kicks off early with one series from each group. 

EntityvsOG 10:00 CEST

BOOM EsportsvsTundra Esports 10:00 CEST

A total of five series per group will take place April 5-8th before dropping to four series per group per day on the 9th and 10th. 

Elite League Round Robin Stage

Elite League Teams

• Eight teams from swiss stage (group stage 1)
  • BOOM Esports
  •  Entity 
  •  OG
  • PSG Quest
  •  Aurora Gaming
  •   Tundra Esports
  •  Blacklist International 
  •   Heroic
• Eight teams invited are seeded into round-robin stage (group stage 2)
  •   Team Spirit
  •   BetBoom Team
  •   Team Liquid
  •   Gaimin Gladiators
  •   Team Falcons
  •   Xtreme Gaming
  •   Azure Ray
  •  G2.iG

Elite League Round Robin Groups

Group A

Group B

Elite League Round Robin Format

• Round-Robin Stage (Group Stage 2) - April 5 - April 11, 2024
  • Two single round-robin group of eight teams each
  • All matches are Bo2
  • Top two teams from each group advance to the upper bracket of playoffs
  • 3rd-4th place teams from each group advance to the lower bracket of playoffs
  • Remaining teams are eliminated