Seventh season of Dota 2 Champions League
Epic Esports Events has announced the 7th season of the Dota 2 Champions League. The tournament will run from January 24 to February 17 with a prize pool of $50,000. There will be 14 teams in the group stage: 13 received direct invites, and one more team will go through open qualifiers.
Teams invited to the group stage:
- Virtus Pro
- B8
- Hydra
- Team Empire
- AS Monaco Gambit
- Gambit Esports
- Brame
- Nemiga Gaming
- Winstrike
- V-Gaming
- Entity Gaming
- COOLGUYS
- CIS Rejects
In addition to the group stage participants, 4 other teams will join the tournament in the playoffs: Team Tickles, Natus Vincere and PuckChamp. The name of the last one will be announced later.
The group stage matches will be played according to the Round Robin system in BO3 format. The group stage participants with the highest scores advance to the playoffs, where they will compete in the Double Elimination bracket. The order of advancing from groups hasn't been announced yet.
The previous Dota 2 Champions League season was held from December 6, 2021, to January 12, 2022. The tournament's champion was Team Tickles, who beat Natus Vincere in the grand final.