The Dota 2 competition will heat up this week as teams vie for a spot via qualifiers at Riyadh Masters this July.
Team Falcons just swept through Gaimin Gladiators yesterday to take the title at DreamLeague Season 23. During the course of the event, the final teams to receive a direct invite to Riyadh Masters were locked in. BetBoom were the first of eight teams to secure their spot three months ago.
Twelve more teams will join them. Five will join as play-in seeds based on Interregional EPT points and seven from regional qualifiers. Those qualifiers will begin this week in each of the seven regions with the open qualifiers, before heading through to the closed qualifiers.
Riyadh Masters Qualifiers
Riyadh Masters Open Qualifiers
- May 29- May 30 North America/Eastern Europe/Southeast Asia/South America/Western Europe/MENA/China
Riyadh Masters Open Qualifiers format
- Single-elimination bracket
- Final is Bo3, all other matches are Bo1
- One team qualifies for the closed qualifier
Riyadh Masters Closed Qualifiers
- May 31-June 2 North America
- May 29-June 2 Eastern Europe/Southeast Asia
- June 2-June 4 South America/Western Europe/MENA/China
Riyadh Masters Closed Qualifiers Format
- Double-elimination bracket
- Grand Final is Bo5, all other matches are Bo3
- TBA team qualifies for the main tournament
Riyadh Masters/ESWC 2024
Tournament format and dates
Play-in stage: July 4-7
- Two round-robin groups
- Two game series
- 1st-3rd placed teams in each group advance to the group stage
- 4th vs 5th from opposite group, winners advance to the group stage
Group stage: July 10-14
- Two round-robin groups
- Two game series
- 1st-4th placed teams advance to Playoffs upper bracket
- 5th-6th placed teams advance to Playoffs lower bracket
- 7th-8th placed teams are eliminated
Playoffs: July 16-21
- 12 team double elimination bracket
- Best-of-three series
- Best-of-five grand finals
Riyadh Masters/ESWC 2024 Prize Pool
Esports World Cup 2024 will feature 19 different competitions, most of them with a million dollars on the line. Dota 2 has the largest prize pool to offer, 5 million dollars, followed by PUBG Mobile with 3.8 million and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang with 3.5 million.
Although this is the largest prize pool of all 19 tournaments at Esports World Cup, the $5,000,000 is just a quarter of last year’s Riyadh Masters edition, which had $15,000,000 to offer.
Last year Team Spirit claimed the trophy and title with $5 million in their pockets.
