CEVO is pleased to announce that registration for DOTA 2 Season 4 will open on Monday, January 20th and end on Monday, February 17th at 11:59 PM CST. The Season 4 prize pool will start with a guaranteed minimum of $5,000 (that's a 333% increase over last season's prize pool) after a tremendous amount of support from the DOTA community in Season 3. Season 4 is completely FREE-to-Play and participation includes:

$5,000 minimum guaranteed prize pool + community crowdfunding

Players in Season 4 will not be required to download or install any external anti-cheat software.

Automatic weekly matches scheduled and easy to use match scheduling thread

Real-time updated standings and team rankings

DOTA2 in-game ticket (available soon)

Top matches broadcast live each week on CEVO-TV and in-game DOTA-TV

Opportunity to advance to higher skill divisions and compete for larger prize pools in future seasons

Helpful league officials available for LIVE support on ALL match nights

Automatic deactivation of dead/inactive teams

FREE access to community forums and prediction systems for every match

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR DOTA 2 SEASON 4

Season Details

- 2 week preseason

- 8 week regular season

- double elimination playoffs

- all matches bo3 format

- 2 skill divisions (CEVO-Open / CEVO-Main)

- 1 national conference

- Monday & Wednesday deadline days (CEVO-Main)

- Tuesday deadline day (CEVO-Open)

- 8:00 PM CST default match time

NOTE: In an effort to remove dead/inactive teams before the regular season begins, teams who forfeit both of their preseason matches will not be automatically scheduled week 1 regular season matches without contacting CEVO staff to confirm their team status.

Prizes

Main (48 Teams) - $4,000.00 + community crowdfunding

1st (50%) - $2,000 + automatic invite to new Season 5 skill division

2nd (30%) - $1,200 + automatic invite to new Season 5 skill division

3rd (12.5%) - $500 + automatic invite to new Season 5 skill division

4th (7.5%) - $300 + automatic invite to new Season 5 skill division



Open - $1,000.00 + community crowdfunding

1st (75%) - $750 + automatic moveup to Season 5 Main division

2nd (25%) - $250 +automatic moveup to Season 5 Main division

3rd – automatic moveup to Season 5 Main division

4th - automatic moveup to Season 5 Main division

5th/6th - automatic moveup to Season 5 Main division

7th/8th - automatic moveup to Season 5 Main division

In addition to the guaranteed base prize pool, we are going to be releasing news later this week about a community crowd funding program we have developed that will enable players and fans of each game to help spread the word about CEVO and directly affect the specific prize pools of the games that they love. 100% of the proceeds from the community crowdfunding project will go directly towards the Season 4 prize pools (after PayPal transaction fees), CEVO will not keep a cent.

Season 4 Main Division Automatic Moveups & Movedowns

All teams that qualified for the Season 3 Open division Playoffs have been automatically moved up to the Season 4 Main division, while Season 3 Main division teams that finished the regular season with less than a .500 record have been moved down to the Season 4 Open division. All new teams that will be competing in CEVO for the first time, should register for the Open division.

Looking forward to Season 5, we are tentatively planning on adding an additional skill division and as usual, moveups will be based on performance in Season 4.

CEVO-TV COVERAGE

Helium, Gorgon the Wonder Cow, Chicago Ted, and the rest of the CEVO-TV crew will be broadcasting weekly Season 4 matches. You'll be able to catch all the action on match nights from our freshly re-designed WATCH section and as always, VODs will be available after the matches on our YouTube channel. Follow our twitch.tv channels to be automatically notified when a broadcast is going live throughout the season.

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Players can register their DOTA2 teams beginning on Monday, January 20th until Monday, February 17th at 11:59 PM CST. We're extremely happy about the growth of CEVO DOTA2 over the last three seasons and we're preparing for another successful event. As always, we're open to feedback and would love to hear from you. Feel free to post your questions, comments, or concerns below, contact CEVO Support, or join our public Ventrilo server (texas.cevo.nationvoice.com:4000) to speak to a game official.

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