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GEST will take the form of a monthly tournament for which six national qualifiers as well as one for all other SEA countries and one which is open to all non-SEA country teams, with the understanding that all non-SEA teams will have to play their games on Singapore servers. This means that teams from the west will be eligible to qualify through the non-SEA qualifier if they so choose to.These qualifiers known collectively as GMPGL, will be hosted by DotaTalk, with exception of the Philippines qualifier, which will be hosted by Mineski. The exact number of teams which will be eligible to qualify from each qualifier is not set, but is determined at the discretion of the organizers. There is also some prizemoney which will be distributed to the winners of the seven SEA qualifiers, however winners of the non-SEA qualifiers will not receive prices unless they win the actual GEST Dota 2 monthly tournament.Once the winners of the qualifiers have been determined, they will proceed to the monthly GEST Dota 2 tournament, where they will be eligible to win the grand prize of $1,000 as well as $500 for the runner up. For each month of GEST, a new qualifier round will be held.The winner as well as the runner up of the monthly GEST will also be selected to attend The Challenge, which will be held bi-monthly, meaning the winner and runner up from two months of GEST will match up against some of Chinas best teams. Reportedly LGD.Int andhave already expressed their wishes to participate in future editions of The Challenge as they did at the first one.The bi-monthly Challenge will feature a prizepool of $1,500, winner takes all.The qualifiers for the GEST will all be best-of-1 single elimination with best-of-3 finals. This will lead into the group stages of the GEST which will be best-of-1, followed by the GEST playoffs, which will be double elimination. The format for The Challenge has not yet been determined, but is likely to be double elimination.The GEST will also have DotaTV tickets available for each two month period, which will give access to two months of GMPGL qualifiers, two months of GEST main events as well as one bi-monthly The Challenge.