



The International Dota 2 Championships 2015 was the fifth annual edition of The International. The tournament was hosted in Seattle for its fourth consecutive year, and the second consecutive year that the Main Event took place at KeyArena, a multi-purpose arena in Seattle Center with a total seating capacity of over 17,000.

The tournament was announced on January 7, 2015.[1] Notably, the Main Event at KeyArena featured 16 teams, an increase from the 8 of The International 2014.

Overview [ edit ]

Format [ edit ]

Open Qualifiers - May 16th - May 17th, 2015 Four Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers. The winner of each region will be the tenth team to participate in their respective Regional Qualifier.

- Qualifiers - May 25th - June 1st, 2015 Four Regional Qualifiers. The winner of each Regional Qualifier will join the other invited teams in Seattle. The runner-up of each Qualifier will be invited to Seattle to compete in phase one of the playoffs.

- Wild Card - July 26th, 2015 Four team double-elimination bracket. Top two teams advance to group stage. Bottom two teams are eliminated. All matches are best of three.

- Group Stage - July 27th - July 30th, 2015 Two groups of eight teams. Teams play every other team in their group in a best of 2 Top four teams in each group advance to upper bracket of the Main Event. Bottom four teams in each group advance to lower bracket of the Main Event.

- Main Event - August 3rd - August 8th, 2015 Sixteen teams play in a double elimination format over six days. 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 ]

The initial prize pool of the tournament was $1,600,000 USD.

An additional 25% of all TI5 Compendium sales was added to the total prize pool.[2]

These sales include compendium purchases at multiple levels and points available to level up the compendium in game.

The final prize pool is $18,429,613 ($16,829,613 added).[2]

The Aegis of Champions at the Main Event stage

ppd grabs the Aegis from the stand

Evil Geniuses (from L to R: UNiVeRsE, Aui_2000, ppd, Fear, SumaiL) pose with the Aegis after winning The International 2015

Participants [ edit ]

Direct Invited [ edit ]

Direct Qualified [ edit ]

Wild Card Qualified [ edit ]

Results [ edit ]

Wild Card [ edit ]

Upper Bracket Semifinals (Bo3) CDEC Gaming 2 Vega Squadron 1 MVP Phoenix 2 Team Archon 1 Upper Bracket Finals (Bo3) CDEC Gaming 2 MVP Phoenix 0 Lower Bracket Round 1 (Bo3) Vega Squadron 2 Team Archon 0 Lower Bracket Finals (Bo3) MVP Phoenix 2 Vega Squadron 1 Qualified for Group Stage CDEC Gaming MVP Phoenix

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Group Stage [ edit ]

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Main Event [ edit ]

Upper Bracket R1 (Bo3) LGD Gaming 2 Team Empire 1 CDEC Gaming 2 Cloud9 0 Evil Geniuses 2 compLexity 0 Team Secret 0 EHOME 2 Upper Bracket R2 (Bo3) LGD Gaming 0 CDEC Gaming 2 Evil Geniuses 2 EHOME 1 Upper Bracket Final (Bo3) CDEC Gaming 2 Evil Geniuses 0 Lower Bracket R1 (Bo1) MVP Phoenix 1 Newbee 0 Vici Gaming 1 Natus Vincere 0 Virtus.pro 1 Fnatic 0 Invictus Gaming 1 MVP HOT6ix 0 Lower Bracket R2 (Bo3) Team Empire 0 MVP Phoenix 2 Cloud9 0 Vici Gaming 2 compLexity 1 Virtus.pro 2 Team Secret 2 Invictus Gaming 1 Lower Bracket R3 (Bo3) MVP Phoenix 0 Vici Gaming 2 Virtus.pro 2 Team Secret 1 Lower Bracket R4 (Bo3) EHOME 0 Vici Gaming 2 LGD Gaming 2 Virtus.pro 0 Lower Bracket R5 (Bo3) Vici Gaming 1 LGD Gaming 2 Lower Bracket Final (Bo3) Evil Geniuses 2 LGD Gaming 0 Grand Final (Bo5) CDEC Gaming 1 Evil Geniuses 3





Additional Data [ edit ]

Country Representation [ edit ]

This list includes participants in The International 2015 and participants in The International 2015 Wild Card.

Additional content [ edit ]

Streams [ edit ]

Previews [ edit ]

Interviews [ edit ]

Trivia [ edit ]

This was the first International that did not invite all previous winners. Natus Vincere (winners of 2011) and Alliance (winners of 2013) were sent to qualifiers instead. Alliance ended up being eliminated in the European qualifiers. Na'Vi, on the other hand, fought their way through to the main event, but were eliminated early on by losing against Vici Gaming in the Lower Bracket Round 1.

Zyzz, of compLexity Gaming, is the first Latin American player to ever play in the International.

CDEC Gaming became the highest finishing team to qualify through the wildcard stage in the history of The International by finishing second in the tournament.