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The International 2018, August 15-25 |DOTA2| Total prizepool can't even buy an Overwatch franchise

Who will be the TI8 champion?

  • OG

    Votes: 57 60.6%

  • PSG.LGD

    Votes: 37 39.4%
  • Total voters
    94
  • Poll closed .

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Links to official schedule - http://www.dota2.com/international/schedule/?l=english
Reddit Survival Guide - https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/wiki/events/ti8
Group Stages August 15-18 - 144 games over 4 days in seventy two Bo2 matches (played in hotel)
Main Event August 20-25 - 41-60 games over 5 days in four Bo1, seventeen Bo3, and one Bo5 Grand Final (played in Rogers Arena)


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The International is an 11 day LAN event and currently the biggest prizepool tournament in esports with over $24M. The prizepool is increased by buying cosmetics through the TI8 Battle Pass. 25% of the funds goes to the prizepool and the remaining 75% goes to Valve including next year's Pro Circuit season prizepools and hosting future events.

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Free infos
Download the game on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/570/Dota_2/
Daily match schedule - http://www.dota2.com/international/schedule/?l=english
VOD's on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/dota2/videos
Liquipedia wiki - https://liquipedia.net/dota2/The_International/2018
Main English video stream - https://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti
Resetera Dota 2 OT - https://www.resetera.com/threads/dota2-ot-the-international-2018-august-15-25.593
Resetera Dota 2 Discord - https://discord.gg/G6xMC4m
Pubstomps or Live viewings - https://www.barcraft.com/
Compendium owners-only ($10 USD)
Manage your fantasy cards online - http://www.dota2.com/fantasy
Manage your daily match predictions - http://www.dota2.com/predictions

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The format is four days of Bo2 roundrobin Group Stages. Each team plays 7 Bo2 matches.
One day off after the Group Stages.
The top 4 Group Stage teams in each group are seeded into the Main Event Upper Bracket (Bo3 double elimination)
The teams 5-8 are seeded into the Main Event Lower Bracket (Bo1 single elimination)
The bottom teams in each group are eliminated from the the Main Event.
The Main Event playoffs are all Bo3 except the Lower Bracket first round and the Grand Final which is a true Bo5 (no game advantages)

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18 of the best teams in the world - 8 invited and 10 qualified from thousands of Open Qualifer teams.
I have ranked the teams here in terms of this season's Dota Pro Circuit points then by region, but unlike most other sporting events the best team is not necessarily the one that wins. Upsets occur all the time even for the best and most highly rated teams. Yearly winnings are dwarfed by the colossal prize pool which promises over $10M for first place.

1. VP (Invited)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: CIS team with CIS players
2018 Season Winnings $2.6M
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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2. Liquid (Invited)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: EU team with EU players
2018 Season Winnings $1.9M
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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3. PSG.LGD (Invited)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: EU/CN team with CN and SEA players
2018 Season Winnings $1.4M
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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4. Secret (Invited)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: EU team with EU and SEA players
2018 Season Winnings $1.3M
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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5. Mineski (Invited)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: SEA team with SEA players
2018 Season Winnings $810k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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6. VG (Invited)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: CN team with CN players
2018 Season Winnings $695k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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7. Newbee (Invited)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: CN team with CN and SEA players
2018 Season Winnings $880k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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8. VGJ.T (Invited)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: US/CN team with CN players
2018 Season Winnings $604k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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9. OG (EU qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: EU team with EU and SEA players
2018 Season Winnings $405k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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10. Winstrike (CIS qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: CIS team with CIS players
2018 Season Winnings $125k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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11. Serenity (CN qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: CN team with CN players
2018 Season Winnings $0
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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12. iG (CN qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: CN team with CN players
2018 Season Winnings $52k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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13. fnatic (SEA qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: SEA team with SEA, NA, and EU players
2018 Season Winnings $434k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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14. TNC (SEA qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: SEA team with SEA players
2018 Season Winnings $455k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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15. VGJS (NA qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: CN/NA team with NA and CIS players
2018 Season Winnings $348k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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16. EG (NA qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: NA team with NA and EU players
2018 Season Winnings $634k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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17. Optic (NA qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: NA team with NA and EU players
2018 Season Winnings $592k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video
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18. Pain (SA qualifier)

Team Liquipedia
Region/Makeup: SA team with SA and EU players
2018 Season Winnings $508k
SirActionSlacks Lowdown video

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This year the event has shifted to Vancouver (home of Areteezy) due to Key Arena renovations and a seemingly easier player visa process. Unlike past years every player has made it smoothly, except one idiot.

Group stages are played at the hotel players are staying at in specialized rooms.
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Soons b like, teams play on stage in soundproof pods with Augmented Reality effects and thousands of fans
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Main Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti
Noob stream: https://www.twitch.tv/dota2ti_newcomer
Steam.tv: https://steam.tv/dota2/
 
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Qvoth

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let's gooooooooooooooooooooooo
i have a feeling the chinese ti law will be broken
i don't think psg lgd is hot enough to win it
 
Pepito

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We are live! They're playing the Slacks DL videos right now.

Last year's production was great but didn't offer anything new on the spectator front. I'm hoping they're more ambitious this year. Pflax said he and HotBid are doing some things they've never done before!
 
Antrax

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I'm a League guy. Will I more or less be able to follow this? My Dota knowledge is all passing
 
scarybore

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As Rough a first day for OG as you could get, just hope they look somewhat competitive and don't get stomped.
 
Xequalsy

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Antrax said:
That's fine, I'm not hardcore about League so I'm used to learning about new champs by seeing them lol
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Should be fine, I've only really played League, but can regularly follow along with Dota pro games. Just takes a couple games to get the hang of what important abilities each player has. I think the newbie stream would probably be a bit too simplistic.
 
Kalor

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I didn't even realise group stages started today. I'm ready to lose productivity.
 
iareharSon

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Damn, I haven't played a game in like 1.5 - 2 years? And I feel like I stopped watching competitive Dota for even longer. I have an itching to watch this though, for old time's sake...
 
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