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With the support of Logitech, Western Digital, and Inno3D, WePlay is proud to announce the inaugural season of the WePlay Dota 2 League. Starting this February, the best professional Dota 2 teams from Europe and North America will duke it out for $10,000 in cash and $10,000 in gear prizes, all of it covered by Beyond the Summit.
Tournament Start: 16th March 2013
Prize Pool:
![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/1/10/Gold.png) 5000$ + 1500$ in gaming-gear ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/0/0b/Silver.png) 2500$ + 1500$ in gaming-gear ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/f/f2/Bronze.png) 1200$ + 1000$ in gaming-gear ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/1/12/Copper.png) 1500$ in gaming-gear 5-6th place - 1000$ in gaming-gear 7-8th place - 500$ in gaming-gear http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/WePlay_Dota2_League/Season_1
Participating Teams NA/SA( Source) + Show Spoiler + Pain-Gaming  Dignitas Team Liquid Fnatic.NA Eosin +4 spF Skill Difference EG ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/9/90/Pe.png) Artyk-Gaming Isurus Gaming  Z4 PR  3DMax aL  Fnatic.EU Kaipi aL.Academy Vivacity eSports  Rat in the Dark  Next.Kz ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/b/b9/Pl.png) Imperium Gamers ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/images/f/fb/Ru.png) The Retry Rox.Kis eL'Pride iCCup Team Virtus Pro Team Empire  Navi Aurochs  TCM-Gaming Nth 4FC
+ Show Spoiler +Group A Keita Gaming Navi Eosin +4 Imperium Gamers Group B Team Empire aL iCCup Team Z4 Group C Virtus Pro TCM-Gaming Next.Kz aL.Academy Group D Kaipi eL'Pride The Retry Fnatic.EU Group E Rat in the Dark Isurus Gaming Fnatic.NA Nth Group F Team Liquid 4FC Pain-Gaming Skill Difference Group G Dignitas 3DMax Rox.Kis PR Group H Aurochs spF Artyk-Gaming EG
Source
TL Announcement Thread
Teams and Lineup Post by WePlay
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Anyone knows where DTA is from?
Also this might be interesting:
@GodBlessMali My league will be held in gsl system, but in easy version. Mb in next season we will use their gibrid system 
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Thanks changed it. I think it's cool that we see something different than the old "lets make a ladder or one huge bracket" approach. Matches will be more important. Also I wonder if it is seperated by continent.
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Couple of easy groups, and a couple of groups that will be hard to predict. Can't wait
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On March 14 2013 19:31 ReignSupreme. wrote:
Couple of easy groups, and a couple of groups that will be hard to predict. Can't wait
Oh just saw that they added the groups. Gonna add them to the OP.
http://weplay.in.ua/en/tournament/grid/277
My prediction:
A - Navi / Eosin+4
B - Empire / Z4
C - VP / TCM
D - Fnatic / KP
E - Nth / rat
F - Liquid / Pain
G - Dignitas / Rox
H - Aurochs / EG
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Starts today!
Schedule
15:00 GMT (+00:00) - Isurus vs. RTD
16:00 GMT (+00:00) - NTH vs. Fnatic.NA
17:00 GMT (+00:00)- Loser bracket 1
18:00 GMT (+00:00) - Winner bracket final
19:00 GMT (+00:00) - Loser bracket final
so yeah it will be played gsl style! :D
![[image loading]](http://gosugamers.net/dota2/images/dota2/groupEweplaybracket.jpg)
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
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While it may not look super exciting from the start, I'm so happy to see this tournament agree to use this format.
It gets very tiring watching all teams from an 8 team group play all their matches (Defense) when someone have no meaning, and all teams play every 15 opponent (starladder) when some matches have almost no meaning (well maybe affect relegations). Nothing against these tournaments, but for a tournament to remain exciting I feel it needs to give every match direct importance, and basically as harsh as it is, the "weak" teams need to be eliminated fast, not seen play in 7 separate games.
This format will weed out the teams quickly (2 losses, goodbye), and also if you are playing, then you have a chance to advance, you're never gonna be 0-3 or 1-4 and still playing a match.
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On March 16 2013 19:01 GoDz wrote:
While it may not look super exciting from the start, I'm so happy to see this tournament agree to use this format.
It gets very tiring watching all teams from an 8 team group play all their matches (Defense) when someone have no meaning, and all teams play every 15 opponent (starladder) when some matches have almost no meaning (well maybe affect relegations). Nothing against these tournaments, but for a tournament to remain exciting I feel it needs to give every match direct importance, and basically as harsh as it is, the "weak" teams need to be eliminated fast, not seen play in 7 separate games.
This format will weed out the teams quickly (2 losses, goodbye), and also if you are playing, then you have a chance to advance, you're never gonna be 0-3 or 1-4 and still playing a match.
I agree. The defense format was unnecessarily long. I mean over 3 months for a online tournaments. Come on, you don't have to milk it that hard.
Also with more leagues the teams have less time so this definitely helps.
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United States230 Posts
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edit: Sorry for the confusion, this will actually start at 16 CET! (in about 50 minutes from the time of this post)
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Looks like that the group G is the group of death, Dignitas, Rox.Kis, 3dmax, Power rangers
wow, really good
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On March 16 2013 21:22 SilverStar wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2013 19:01 GoDz wrote:
While it may not look super exciting from the start, I'm so happy to see this tournament agree to use this format.
It gets very tiring watching all teams from an 8 team group play all their matches (Defense) when someone have no meaning, and all teams play every 15 opponent (starladder) when some matches have almost no meaning (well maybe affect relegations). Nothing against these tournaments, but for a tournament to remain exciting I feel it needs to give every match direct importance, and basically as harsh as it is, the "weak" teams need to be eliminated fast, not seen play in 7 separate games.
This format will weed out the teams quickly (2 losses, goodbye), and also if you are playing, then you have a chance to advance, you're never gonna be 0-3 or 1-4 and still playing a match. I agree. The defense format was unnecessarily long. I mean over 3 months for a online tournaments. Come on, you don't have to milk it that hard. Also with more leagues the teams have less time so this definitely helps.
I think its been closer to 4-5 months now :/
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United Kingdom24425 Posts
More importantly this means that every day is a mini-tournament, and teams don't have to sit around and schedule matches days apart. Much easier to just say "be free this 5 hour block".
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United States230 Posts
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Thank you for these. They are really high quality! I linked your blog in the OP and will leave it there as long as you make these ^^.
Here is todays schedule:
15:00 GMT (+00:00) Match 1 (bo1): Na`Vi vs Eosin +4
16:00 GMT (+00:00) Match 2 (bo1): Imperium Gamers vs Vivacity E-Sports
17:00 GMT (+00:00) Match 3 (bo1): Winner of Match 1 vs winner of match 2, winner of this match finishes 1st in group
18:00 GMT (+00:00) Match 4 (bo1): Loser of match 1 vs loser of match 2, loser of this match gets 4th place
19:00 GMT (+00:00) Match 5 (bo1): Loser of match 3 vs winner of match 4, winner finishes in 2nd place, loser finishes in 3rd
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Na'Vi toying around as usual...
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