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The next MLG event will take place in Colombus, Ohio starting on November 22-24th. The event includes a DotA 2 tournament, where top European teams were invited to, in addition to the North American teams. Natus Vincere was invited as well and will participate in the tournament.
MLG Colombus, as mentioned before, will take place on November 22-24 in one of the exhibition centers in the city. The following teams will compete for the total prize pool of $50 000:
1. Natus Vincere
2.Alliance
3.Fnatic
4.Evil Geniuses
5.Team Liquid
6.Winner of MLG Fall Invitational (takes place on 18.10)
7.Winner of the NA qualifiers (28.09 - 16.10)
8.Reserve slot
These 8 teams will compete for the $25 000 first place prize. There is no info yet about how the other half will be distributed.
There will be 2 stages in the tournament:
Group stage (8 teams, 1 group)
Brackets (single elimination), 4 teams
That’s the only available info about the tournament. As soon as we get more info, you will be the first to find out more.
Source: http://navi-gaming.com/news_show.php?news_id=13776
Really hyped for the 8th team, Could be the rumored Chinese team DK to attend.
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Looking at that list I can't help but feel like once again, Kaipi is being left out of an event they absolutely deserve to be at.
Though I can't exactly argue with the idea that DK taking the 8th spot would be beyond sick.
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Does Kaipi even have a sponsor that would send them to MLG?
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Feels like people have been speaking about this tournament for months already and it's in late November. Just can't feel the hype just yet.
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On September 17 2013 18:20 zaii wrote:
Does Kaipi even have a sponsor that would send them to MLG?
No one's sure. Envy and co recently got new mice and Envy has been talking a ton about his NeedForSeat, which points towards KP being the new Quantic team. There's also rumours that KP is gonna be a second Dignitas team.
The only thing that's for certain is that KP had to provide proof to StarLadder that they would be able to attend the LAN finals if they qualified, after they dropped out last season because they didn't have sponsorship, and StarLadder let them join again.
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On September 17 2013 18:21 Mouzone wrote:
Feels like people have been speaking about this tournament for months already and it's in late November. Just can't feel the hype just yet.
I was hyped until I see the date,at least EG,Liquid, Fnatic and the last invited team will be more prepared and ready against Alliance and Na'Vi with the time gap.
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On September 17 2013 18:19 ShiroKaisen wrote:
Looking at that list I can't help but feel like once again, Kaipi is being left out of an event they absolutely deserve to be at.
Though I can't exactly argue with the idea that DK taking the 8th spot would be beyond sick.
I heard Ttesports eSports manager, snnatch, talking about getting DK to go overseas. He didn't state whether it was a foreign tournament or just an exhibition, but I think it would be one helluva tournament if DK was that reserved slot.
Interested to see what kind of casters they invite too. Does MLG have Dota2 casters on staff?
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On September 17 2013 19:20 rkshox wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2013 18:19 ShiroKaisen wrote:
Looking at that list I can't help but feel like once again, Kaipi is being left out of an event they absolutely deserve to be at.
Though I can't exactly argue with the idea that DK taking the 8th spot would be beyond sick. I heard Ttesports eSports manager, snnatch, talking about getting DK to go overseas. He didn't state whether it was a foreign tournament or just an exhibition, but I think it would be one helluva tournament if DK was that reserved slot. Interested to see what kind of casters they invite too. Does MLG have Dota2 casters on staff?
Well, 2GD could get fired mid-cast again. Haha.
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Hmm, good for MLG that they were able to get Na'Vi and Alliance to attend.
Not so good for the US teams, with the two best teams in the world attending it'll be very tough for them to win this even on home soil.
In fact personally, I'd rather have not seen Na'Vi and Alliance attend. They already won TI3 and are guaranteed their "easy" money at every EMS and Starladder LAN. It'd be nice to see another team win a LAN with a big prizepool for a change. That's what i'll be hoping for anyway.
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Awesome lineup. Here's hoping a Chinese team fills the last spot.
On September 17 2013 19:41 Taf the Ghost wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2013 19:20 rkshox wrote:On September 17 2013 18:19 ShiroKaisen wrote:
Looking at that list I can't help but feel like once again, Kaipi is being left out of an event they absolutely deserve to be at.
Though I can't exactly argue with the idea that DK taking the 8th spot would be beyond sick. I heard Ttesports eSports manager, snnatch, talking about getting DK to go overseas. He didn't state whether it was a foreign tournament or just an exhibition, but I think it would be one helluva tournament if DK was that reserved slot. Interested to see what kind of casters they invite too. Does MLG have Dota2 casters on staff? Well, 2GD could get fired mid-cast again. Haha.
Hehe, I hope MLG aren't holding a grudge against him about that time, would be nice to see him and Bruno at MLG 
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That is a solid line up, good teams and room for up and coming teams to make their name in another tournament before qualifying. This is the way most Esports should be run, open brackets run months prior to the main event and a solid line up for the show.
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promising Lineup so far. I will watch!
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No KP or Dignitas?
Still a great line up. I can't wait to see what MLG has in store for this event, and who the last two teams will be.
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Yeah i agree that not so many top-tier EU team shuld've been invited. Just Fnatic would have been fine, to add some spice, and then maybe a team from China. Calling so many "foreign" team just kill the local scene and make the tournaments usually unsustainable in the long term. It's an american toruney. let them american cheer for NA teams. If you call the top 2 european teams this make for potential upsets, but also make for possible EU only finals and i don't think people really want that. The NA scene is so underdeveloped right now that it need to be protected a bit imho. NEL is my favourite league right now, and america need more of it and more local tournaments to validate those players, not to throw them in a field with the top world teams at the first chance.
My 0.02$
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On September 17 2013 21:44 Gheizen64 wrote:
Yeah i agree that not so many top-tier EU team shuld've been invited. Just Fnatic would have been fine, to add some spice, and then maybe a team from China. Calling so many "foreign" team just kill the local scene and make the tournaments usually unsustainable in the long term. It's an american toruney. let them american cheer for NA teams. If you call the top 2 european teams this make for potential upsets, but also make for possible EU only finals and i don't think people really want that. The NA scene is so underdeveloped right now that it need to be protected a bit imho. NEL is my favourite league right now, and america need more of it and more local tournaments to validate those players, not to throw them in a field with the top world teams at the first chance.
My 0.02$
I agree with you, one or two invites is nice, but too many EU invites will hurt the americans. IT just makes MLG some sort of early DH, instead of an American Tourny.
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But if you remove A and Navi from this list, you have another EMS tourney, with 20 or 30k stream viewers. If you want to "help the americans" you also have to have profitable tournaments (from an organizer pov), and Liquid vs EG that can happen online 3 times a week won't do it. I'm sure most people wanting more american teams aren't even watching most pure american competitions, and who would blame you.
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On September 17 2013 21:59 MrCon wrote:
But if you remove A and Navi from this list, you have another EMS tourney, with 20 or 30k stream viewers. If you want to "help the americans" you also have to have profitable tournaments (from an organizer pov), and Liquid vs EG that can happen online 3 times a week won't do it. I'm sure most people wanting more american teams aren't even watching most pure american competitions, and who would blame you.
That's why you invite a top team, and not 2 or 3 on 8 teams. Let's be frank, [A] would probably go all the way anyway, so you'd get a lot of NA vs [A] games, or NA vs Na'vi for that matter. That's good because you want to watch to root for the home teams, the underdogs, or whatever. But when you get 2-3 top teams, i think it's just annoying. SC2 tournaments were at their bests when they had a little number of Koreans and lots of foreign, and you'd watch all those games against Koreans to root for the "underdogs" to win. When you have 50% Korean invites, foreign just stop attending after a while, and i think the same would be true if they invite Na'vi + [A] and those two teams stomp everything. It's not as bad because the difference is nowhere as big as it was in SC2, but still.
You remove a lot of motivations imho.
I would've invited Fnatic and i would've tried to get IG or Tongfu from China. Those are teams that i'd say are on par with the best NA team (well Fnatic right now is bad but i guess they'll get better soon) and can still create interest in the viewers. I'd watch that tournament for sure (well aside from terrible timezones). Even better, i would've invited a sea + china team, we get NA vs Europe often enough anyway. That would have made for a more interesting situation because it's so rare to see them against Western teams outside of TI.
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On September 17 2013 21:59 MrCon wrote:
But if you remove A and Navi from this list, you have another EMS tourney, with 20 or 30k stream viewers. If you want to "help the americans" you also have to have profitable tournaments (from an organizer pov), and Liquid vs EG that can happen online 3 times a week won't do it. I'm sure most people wanting more american teams aren't even watching most pure american competitions, and who would blame you.
Exactly. Plus MLG can do a fine job supporting and building the NA scene by running qualifier events like the Full Sail tournament. These smaller events don't need the massive viewership a full scale event would, so they can have more reasonable prize pools and allow the NA teams to hack it out. Sure the play is going quite a bit lower that you could expect, but MLG will be able to figure out which teams are the ones to show on stream.
With this and Giant Bomb's Brad Shoemaker getting pretty deep into the community side of the game, I have high hopes we will a lot of fun NA stuff to come.
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i dont agree that america should be protected; if the teams can afford to come more power to them
hell look at adl that excluded all the euro teams and that tourney was awful
otoh kp deserved an invite they have two americans ffs
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The source link goes to a 404 and I don't see the news anywhere else.
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