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Eastern Division

Invictus Gaming

Vici Gaming

LGD Gaming

Team DK

NewBee

Tongfu

CIS

HGT

Titan

Orenda

Orange

DreamTime

Competing TeamsEastern Division



Fnatic

Alliance

Team Empire

Sigma.Int

Cloud 9

Western Division



Regular Season (March 29, 2014 – May 18, 2014):

Eastern Division:



12 teams

LAN Environment

BO2 Single Round Robin

Top 6 move on to the Playoffs

Western Division:



5 teams

Online Environment

BO2 Single Round Robin

Top 2 move on to the Playoffs



Playoffs (May 22, 2014 – June 2, 2014):

Ranking Matches:



LAN Environment

8 remaining teams will be divided into two groups.

Upper Bracket (1st West team; 1st, 2nd and 3rd East teams)

Lower Bracket (2nd West team; 4th, 5th and 6th East teams)

The 4 teams in each bracket will play BO1 Single Round Robin Ranking Matches



Quarterfinal (BO3):



(A) 1st (UB) vs 4th (LB)

(B) 2nd (UB) vs 3rd (LB)

(C) 3rd (UB) vs 2nd (LB)

(D) 4th (UB) vs 1st (LB)



Semifinals (BO3):



The winner of A vs The winner of D

The winner of B vs The winner of C



Grand Final (BO7): Season FormatRegular Season (March 29, 2014 – May 18, 2014):Playoffs (May 22, 2014 – June 2, 2014):LAN Environment8 remaining teams will be divided into two groups.Upper Bracket (1st West team; 1st, 2nd and 3rd East teams)Lower Bracket (2nd West team; 4th, 5th and 6th East teams)The 4 teams in each bracket will play BO1 Single Round Robin Ranking Matches(A) 1st (UB) vs 4th (LB)(B) 2nd (UB) vs 3rd (LB)(C) 3rd (UB) vs 2nd (LB)(D) 4th (UB) vs 1st (LB)The winner of A vs The winner of DThe winner of B vs The winner of C

With only two places in the playoffs up or grabs, three teams are tied and will play each other once again.Alliance,Team Empire andTeam Dog will play out a one-game series against each other to decide the second playoff place. Given that a 2-0 win is worth 2 points, and a 1-1 draw is worth 1 point, it means that despite not winning any of their matches, Team Empire still join the three-way tie due to their four 1-1 draws. Meanwhile, Alliance and Team Dog both had one victory and two draws, meaning they also have four points.The players of Alliance and Team Dog enjoyed some friendly banter over Twitter during the groupstage process, but MiseRy didn't seem too keen on letting his fate be decided by a bo1 tweeting "bo1 is kind of retarded in the current state dota 2 is in." Misery's Team Dog could have finished top of their group were it not for their 2-0 loss to Cloud9, after draws against Alliance and Empire followed by a 2-0 victory against Fnatic. If they were to be eliminated in the tie-breaker it would be highly unfortunate given their strong performance so far.