CEVO is pleased to announce that team registration for DOTA 2 Season 5 will open on Tuesday, June 10th and end on Monday, June 30th at 11:59 PM CDT. The Season 5 prize pool will start with a guaranteed minimum of $1,000 after a tremendous amount of support from the DOTA community our previous three seasons. We're also in the process of creating a Season 5 tournament bundle/ticket with Valve and we'll be adding 100% of CEVO's share of ticket sales to the prize pool. Season 5 is completely FREE-to-Play and participation includes:

$1,000 minimum guaranteed prize pool + 100% of CEVO's share of ticket sales + community crowdfunding

DOTA2 in-game bundle/ticket (details available soon)

Players in Season 5 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

Top matches broadcast live each week on CEVO-TV and in-game on 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 DOTA2 SEASON 5

Season Details

- 2 week preseason

- 8 week regular season

- double elimination playoffs

- all matches bo2 match format

- 1 skill divisions (CEVO-Open)

- 1 national conference

- Monday & Wednesday deadline days (CEVO-Open)

- 9:00 PM CDT default match time

Prizes

Open Division - $1,000 (base prize pool) + in-game ticket sales + community crowdfunding

1st (60%) - $600.00 (base prize)

2nd (27%) - $135.00 (base prize)

3rd (13%) - $130.00 (base prize)

In addition to the guaranteed base prize pool of $1,000 committed by CEVO, we are going to continue with our community crowd funding program that we developed in Season 4. The crowdfunding program enables players and fans of each game to help spread the word about CEVO and directly affect the prize pools of the specific games that they love. 100% of the proceeds from the community crowdfunding project will go directly towards the s5 prize pools (less PayPal transaction fees), CEVO will not keep a cent. All donations will be distributed using the percentages lsited above.

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 Support to confirm their team status.

CEVO-TV COVERAGE

Helium, Gorgon the Wonder Cow, Chicago Ted, and the rest of the CEVO-TV crew will be broadcasting the best matches of Season 5 each week. You'll be able to catch all of the action Sunday-Thursday each week beginning at about 8 PM CDT, 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.

Players can register their teams from Tuesday, June 10th until Monday, June 30th at 11:59 PM CDT. We're looking forward to improving after an extremely successful Season 4, and we'd love for you and your team to join us.

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 visit us in our public TeamSpeak3 server (cevots.gameservers.com:9366) to get in touch with us!

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