1. Groups and Schedule



Group A

Team M W D L P FXO 3 3 0 0 9 Season.One 3 2 0 1 6 MU 3 1 0 2 3 S&Y 3 0 0 3 0 Matches and results



Group B

Team M W D L P MVP.hot6 3 3 0 0 9 EoT 3 2 0 1 6 Sym4ny 3 1 0 2 3 fastGG 3 0 0 3 0 Matches and results



Group C

Team M W D L P Underated 3 3 0 0 9 NJ&Kids 3 2 0 1 6 AceOnline 3 1 0 2 3 VL. 3 0 0 3 0 Matches and results



Group D

Team M W D L P StarTale 3 3 0 0 9 VirThrone 3 2 0 1 6 AVE 3 1 0 2 3 PlaceBum 3 0 0 3 0 Matches and results

28th September 06:00 - FXOpen vs SushiAndYasha

07:00 - MVP vs SymphonyDota

08:00 - UnderRateds' vs Team NJ & Kids 1st October 12:00 - E'oT vs MVP

13:00 - UnderRateds' vs Ace Online

14:00 - FXOpen vs Season One_ 5th October 06:00 - Moonlight United vs SushiAndYasha

07:00 - Moonlight United vs Season One_

08:00 - Team NJ & Kids vs Ace Online 8th October 12:00 - Ave~ vs Virtual Throne

13:00 - FastGG vs SymphonyDota

14:00 - E'oT vs FastGG 12th October 06:00 - Moonlight United vs FXOpen

07:00 - SushiAndYasha vs Season One_

08:00 - Ave~ vs StarTale 15th October 12:00 - StarTale vs Virtual Throne

13:00 - FastGG vs SymphonyDota

14:00 - FastGG vs MVP

Quarter-finals: October 22 - October 26

Semi-finals: October 29 - November 26

Grand final: November 9

2. Format





Groupstage

- 16 teams will be separated into four groups of four where they will play round robin.

- The top two placers in the group will move into the playoffs.

Playoffs

- Quarter-finals will run single elimination best-of-three format.

- From the semi-finals onwards, the tournament will switch to double elimination although the games will still be played in best-of-three.

- Grand final will be best-of-five.





3. Prize distribution





Nexon Sponsorship League S1 Prizes Placing Teams Prize 1st place 100 mio. Won (~$93,000) 2nd place 8 mio. Won (~$7,400) 3rd-4th place 3 mio. Won (~$2,800) 5th-8th place 1.5 mio. Won (~$1,400)

Just looking at the table above, you can probably tell that this tournament is extremely top heavy. Well, that is because it is parallel to Nexon's main objective to help teams get more sponsorship in Korea. The winner of season one and the upcoming season two and season three will also receive help from Nexon to secure more sponsors.

4. Top teams

FXOpen

Team roster:

March

Febby

QO

Anarchy

Sagun







MVP

Team roster:

Mafia

BanHwa

Kaizer

Pein

Hoonji







Eyes of the Tiger (E'oT)

Team roster:

Reisen

Pyung

Day

Rash

lly







StarTale

Team roster:

TB

M.P

KSH

Gandhi

Jyu







Virtual Throne

Team roster:

Aqua<3NJH

KYRA

Now

iHungry

DevilElf

5. Location



GOMTV studio during Nexon Starter League. Photo by Inven.

The matches of Nexon Starter League will be played at GOMTV's Gangnam Studio in Seoul, Korea. In Nexon Starter League The Gangnam Studio is a new studio GOMTV opened and it has all the technology and toys needed to topple production value records.

GOMTV Gangnam Studio address: 2nd Floor, Mirae Asset Life Insurance Building, 997-4 Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

6. Where to watch?

Sang-Hyun Park

Korean caster Sang-Hyun Park will be casting season one of Nexon Sponsorship League alongside Dae Man Park and Inho Jeong on GOMTV's stream. Park was previously invited to cast The International 3 at Seattle and many are amazed at how this guy can continue shouting the whole game. Here's a sample of his cast at TI3 alongside Dae Man Park.

> Link to stream



BeyondTheSummit

Similar to the Nexon Starter League, BeyondTheSummit will likely run the broadcast of Nexon Sponsorship League on their second channel. The games will most likely be streamed by LysanderXonora while GoDz assured us that he will try to cast a few games whenever possible.

> Link to stream



JoinDOTA Red

According to joinDOTA's news post, Toby 'TobiWan' Dawson will be casting Nexon Sponsorship League season one. Toby missed casting Nexon Starter League because of a time clash with StarLadder Star Series VI.

> Link to stream



K3nt

Kent, one of DOTA2's earliest Chinese commentator, currently LGD-Gaming's official caster. Once the second most popular Chinese stream during The International 2012, with a record of continuous 40 hours non-stop streaming throughout the three play days. Appointed as official Chinese caster for several major tournaments, including GEST, Dreamhack, The Asia 2012 and many more. With his humorous comments and appropriate analysis, Kent is considered one of the more skilled and active commentators in China.

> Link to stream





You can get this courier by buying the NSL DotaTV bundle.

DotaTV

Nexon Sponsorship League DotaTV ticket is available on the Dota 2 store for $12.99. The DotaTV ticket will come with a Baekho courier made by Vidotto, Onilolz, Zaphk and Nexon.





7. Who will you be rooting for?