The Frankfurt Major (or "Fall Major") is the first event of Valve's Dota Major Championships, which will add 3 new publisher-sponsored tournaments each year in addition to The International. The Main Event took place at Festhalle Messe, a multi-purpose concert hall in Frankfurt, Germany with a total seating capacity of over 9,800; it featured the same Main Event format as The International 2015.[1]

Format [ edit ]

Open Qualifiers - October 6th - October 10th, 2015 Eight Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers, two brackets for each region. The winners of each Regional Qualifier will advance to the respective Main Qualifier.

- Main Qualifiers - October 10th - October 14th, 2015 Four Regional Qualifiers. Two groups of five teams, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the Regional Double-elimination Playoff Bracket. The winner and runner-up of each Regional Playoff Bracket will join the eight directly invited teams in Frankfurt.

- Group Stage - November 13th - November 14th, 2015 Four groups of four teams. [2] Double-elimination format with matches played in a best-of-three. Top two teams in each group advance to the upper bracket of the Main Event. Bottom two teams in each group advance to the lower bracket of the Main Event.

- Main Event - November 16th - November 21st, 2015 Teams are seeded into a double-elimination bracket after the Group Stage. Eight teams begin in the upper bracket, eight in the lower bracket. First lower bracket game is best of one, Grand Finals are best of five, all others are best of three.

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Broadcast Talent [ edit ]

Prize Pool [ edit ]

$3,000,000 USD was spread among the teams as seen below:

Participants [ edit ]

Invited Teams [ edit ]

Qualified Teams [ edit ]

Results [ edit ]

Group Stage [ edit ]

Main Event [ edit ]

Upper Bracket R1 (Bo3) Evil Geniuses 2 Vega Squadron 1 CDEC Gaming 2 LGD Gaming 0 Team Secret 2 Mineski.Sports5 0 Vici Gaming 2 Virtus.pro 1 Upper Bracket R2 (Bo3) Evil Geniuses 2 CDEC Gaming 0 Team Secret 2 Vici Gaming 1 Upper Bracket Final (Bo3) Evil Geniuses 1 Team Secret 2 Lower Bracket R1 (Bo1) Cloud9 0 Alliance 1 OG 1 Fnatic 0 Newbee 0 Team Unknown 1 EHOME 1 Newbee Young 0 Lower Bracket R2 (Bo3) Virtus.pro 2 Alliance 0 Mineski.Sports5 0 OG 2 LGD Gaming 2 Team Unknown 0 Vega Squadron 0 EHOME 2 Lower Bracket R3 (Bo3) Virtus.pro 1 OG 2 LGD Gaming 1 EHOME 2 Lower Bracket R4 (Bo3) CDEC Gaming 0 OG 2 Vici Gaming 0 EHOME 2 Lower Bracket R5 (Bo3) OG 2 EHOME 1 Lower Bracket Final (Bo3) Evil Geniuses 1 OG 2 Grand Final (Bo5) Team Secret 1 OG 3

Additional Data [ edit ]

Country Representation [ edit ]

Additional content [ edit ]

Player Profiles [ edit ]