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    Dota 2 will adopt Regional Leagues after The International, Valve says

    Dota 2 developer Valve has confirmed the Dota Pro Circuit will introduce a new regional league system that will focus on keeping matches more scheduled and consistent, while also promoting the development of second and third-tier talent.
    This means that Minor tournaments are being completely removed in favor of forming Regional Leagues that will compete in three individual “seasons” over the course of a normal DPC year. Each season will lead to a Major, where the best teams from each of the usual six regions will compete for spots at The International.
    The Regional League and Divisions
    There will be both Upper and Lower Divisions in each region, with eight teams residing in both brackets. That will form a total of 96 teams competing in the new version of the DPC each year.
    At the end of each of those three seasons within the DPC calendar year, the bottom two teams from the Upper Division will be relegated to the Lower Division, while the top two rosters form the Lower Division will take their place. This will keep the talent in the highest level of Dota competition from being stale and gatekeeping new rosters due to early dominance.
    The bottom two teams from the Lower Division will also be eliminated from the league and replaced by two teams who qualify through an open qualifier tournament held within the region.
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    Each league will also have a total prize pool of $280,000 per season, which will be split among both divisions. Here is how each division will pay out in both prize money and DPC points, along with the additional notes for each placement.
    Upper Division
    1st Place $30,000 500 DPC points Qualifies to the Major Playoffs
    2nd Place $28,000 300 DPC points Qualifies to the Major Group Stage
    3rd Place $27,000 200 DPC points Qualifies to the Major Wild Card Stage
    4th Place $26,000 100 DPC points Qualifies to the Major Wild Card Stage
    5th Place $25,000 50 DPC points
    6th Place $24,000 N/A
    7th Place $23,000 N/A Relegated to Lower Division
    8th Place $22,000 N/A Relegated to Lower Division
    Lower Division
    1st Place $17,000 Promoted to Upper Division
    2nd Place $16,000 Promoted to Upper Division
    3rd Place $15,000
    4th Place $11,000
    5th Place $9,000
    6th Place $7,000
    7th Place N/A Eliminated from Lower Division
    8th Place N/A Eliminated from Lower Division
    For a team to be eligible for participation in any region, three of the five players on their roster need to reside in the region that they are competing in. Along with that, teams can use stand-in players for up to four of their matches as long as the stand-in is not competing in the Upper Division of the DPC.
    All rosters will be locked for the duration of each season (start of a season to the end of a Major,) which means no roster moves are allowed. After the Major concludes and until the beginning of the next season, roster changes will be enabled, but each change will incur a 15 percent penalty on the team’s current DPC points total.
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    If a team decides to region swap at any point during an ongoing DPC season, that team will be removed from their current DPC Division and placed into the open qualifiers of their new region, meaning they will have to play into the Lower Division and work their way up. This is going to be used as a major deterrent to mid-season region swapping, which has been happening pretty frequently.
    Major Changes
    Each season will conclude with a Major tournament, featuring 18 teams from all regions and a prize pool of $500,000. The 18 participating teams are going to be from the top placements of each regional Upper Division, which will have fixed slots allocated to them.
    Europe and China: Four slots.
    North America and Southeast Asia: Three slots.
    CIS and South America: Two slots.
    There will also be a change to how the opening round of the Majors will be run, which essentially turns them into a best-of-two elimination tournament in and of itself. This Wildcard format will encompass six teams, with the top two making it into the Group Stage.
    EU League 3rd place
    EU League 4th place
    CN League 3rd place
    CN League 4th place
    NA League 3rd place
    SEA League 3rd place
    The group stage will also be a best-of-two round-robin, with the top two teams making it into the playoffs through the upper bracket, while the bottom two teams are eliminated. The remaining teams will be thrown into the fire that is the lower bracket elimination round.
    The top team from each region’s league will also receive a bye through the group stage directly into the upper bracket of the playoffs.
    Upper Bracket:
    EU League (first place)
    CN League (first place)
    SEA League (first place)
    SA League (first place)
    NA League (first place)
    CIS League (first place)
    Group Stage (first place)
    Group Stage (second place)
    Lower Bracket:
    Group Stage – (third place)
    Group Stage – (fourth place)
    Group Stage – (fifth place)
    Group Stage – (sixth place)
    And here is how the prize distribution for each Major will be handled.
    1st Place $ 200,000 500 DPC points
    2nd Place $100,000 450 DPC points
    3rd Place $75,000 400 DPC points
    4th Place $50,000 350 DPC points
    5th Place $25,000 300 DPC points
    6th Place $25,000 300 DPC points
    7th Place $12,500 200 DPC points
    8th Place $12,500 200 DPC points
    At the end of the third season, the top 12 teams with the most DPC points across all regions will qualify directly for The International 2021. All remaining spots will be decided through regional, final chance qualifiers, as per usual.
    However, instead of hosting open qualifiers to see who will have a chance to claim the last tickets to TI11, the top eight teams who were not already invited will make up the roster of the final chance qualifiers for each region.
    Here are the post-TI10 dates you need to know, which is when each season will begin and the date of each Major.
    S1 Fall League: Oct. 5th – Nov. 15th
    S1 Major: Dec. 7th – 19th
    S2 Winter League: Jan. 4th – Feb. 14th
    S2 Major: March 8th – 20th
    S3 Spring League: April 12th – May 23rd
    S3 Major: June 21st – July 3rd

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