With only week until the Boston Major resumes, here is everything you need to know about this season’s first Dota 2 Major.



The Wang Theater in Boston,USA will be welcoming its first eSports event this year.

The event will continue with the Group Stage on December 3rd until December 4th, which will determine the seeding for the Main Event



The Main event will feature sixteen teams battling for a $3.000.000 prize pool through a single-elimination playoff bracket in best-of-three matches, with a best-of-five Grand Finals.



The Boston Major is the first Major event to not feature a double-elimination bracket.



Format



The Boston Major kicked off on October 23rd with the Open Qualifiers, where up to 100 teams in total have entered the tournament., each divided into one of the four regional qualifiers – Americas, Europe, China and South-east Asia.



The Main Qualifiers( October 27- October 31st) continued to thin the ranks of the competing teams leaving us with only 8 qualified teams, divided up into two teams per region.



The Group Stage will determine the seeding for the Main Event, which will take place in the extravagant Wang Theater, in Boston, Massachusetts. Sixteen teams will compete in this stage as well as the Main Event – 8 invited teams and 8 qualified teams.





Open Qualifiers – October 23rd – October 26th, 2016

Eight Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers, two brackets for each region. The winners of each Regional Qualifier will advance to the respective Main Qualifier.



Main Qualifiers – October 27th – October 31st, 2016

Four Regional Qualifiers. One group containing all teams, with the top four teams advancing to the Regional Double-elimination Playoff Bracket. The winner and runner-up of each Regional Playoff Bracket will join the eight directly invited teams in Boston.



Group Stage – December 3rd – December 4th, 2016

Main Event – December 7th – December 10th, 2016

Teams are seeded into a single-elimination bracket after the Group Stage.

Prize pool



As in any other Major event, the Boston Major will featured a fixed $3.000.000 prize pool. While the prize pool distribution has not yet been revealed, judging by the past three major events we can expect the following:

First Place – $1.110.000 (37%)

Second Place – $450.000 (13.5%)

Third Place – $315.000 (10.5%)

Fourth Place – $255.000 (8.5%)

(The prize pool format is only a speculation and will be updated when the official prize pool distribution has been released).



Teams

Sixteen teams remain in the race for the grand prize, teams that are comprised of eight directly invited teams and eight qualified.

Each region, out of four regions in total, has two qualified teams.



The European qualifiers featured a series of unexpected results, as Ad Finem effectively KO’d the strongest teams in the region. Team Secret and Team Liquid faltered before the greek might of the unchanged and undivided roster of Ad Finem.



Virtus Pro followed up with an encore, eliminating the teams that Ad Finem has sent into the Lower Bracket, securing the second Regional spot.



The SEA region continues to grow with the addition of Team Faceless and WarriorsGaming.United who both managed to secure a spot into the Group Stage after battling against one of the oldest team in the region, as well as in Dota – Fnatic.



The Chinese qualifiers was the only series to feature a tie-breaker in it’s Round-robin phase, that was disputed between EHOME.Keen and invictus Gaming



Due to visa issues LGD.Forever Young players Monet and lpc could not attend the Boston event. Valve have taken note of the issue and has allowed the Chinese team to bring in two Standins. END and ddc from Vici Gaming, will be replacing the missing players from LGD.



Americas



Europe



OG – directly invited

Ad Finem – winner of regional qualifiers

Virtus.pro – runner-up of regional qualifiers



China



Wings Gaming – directly invited Newbee – directly invited EHOME – directly invited LGD.Forever Young – winner of the regional qualifiers iG Vitality – runner-up of the regional qualifier



Southeast Asia



Execration – directly invited

MVP Phoenix – directly invited

Team Faceless – winner of regional qualifiers

WarriorsGaming.Unity – runner-up of regional qualifiers





Streaming



At this moment, no official EN stream has been revealed. So far, the Boston Major Open and Regional Qualifiers have been streamed by BeyondTheSummit as well as MoonDuckTV.



The Russian stream will be assured by Dota2RuHub, while the Brazilian fans will be able to watch the Boston Major in their language, on the NoMadTV stream.



BeyondTheSummit/MoonDuckTV

Dota2 RuHub

N/A

NoMadTV

The attending talent has not yet been revealed.

The Wang Theater



The Boston Major Main Event will take place in the Wang Theater in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, being the first Major event ( besides The International) to take place on American soil.



Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Wang Theatre has housed the performing arts since opening in 1925, developing from a movie “cathedral” and home to vaudeville musicals and big bands, to today’s role as an impressive venue for world-class theatre, music, Broadway, and dance. Today the Wang Theatre holds 3,500 audience members and boasts one of the five largest stages in the country.