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ASUS ROG DreamLeague Season #1 Qualifiers

ASUS ROG DreamLeague Season #1 is just around the corner, starting the 3rd of March 2014, live from DreamHack’s brand new TV-studio in Stockholm, Sweden. Today we can present the qualifiers for Season #1 where 6 additional teams will join the 6 teams from the Kick-Off Season to fight for $100,000 in prize money! Make sure to sign-up for the open qualifiers today and participate in the most prestigious Dota 2 League in the World.

*UPDATE* Due to Community feedback we have decided to expand the Europe East Division to include more countries that originally were suppose to play in the Europe West Division. We apologise for the the inconvenience and confusion this has caused. The following countries will include in the Europe East Division: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The original countries are still part of Europe East Division: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

*UPDATE*

ASUS ROG DreamLeague was introduced last year, when DreamHack hosted the Kick-Off Season of this new eSports league. In the Grand Final Natus Vincere became the first ASUS ROG DreamLeague Champions. The Kick-Off season was only a sample of what to come and now we’re really excited to start the real deal – ASUS ROG DreamLeague Season #1 with 12 teams, $100,000 in prize money, the sexiest broadcast ever and Grand Finals at DreamHack Summer 2014.



Recap of Kick-off Season

Season #1

The ASUS ROG DreamLeague Season #1 will start on the 3rd of March. The six teams from the Kick-Off Season will be challenged by six teams to be qualified, two from each Division of North America, Europe West and Europe East. The season will be played over 10 weeks and all the 84 league matches will be broadcast from the new DreamHack TV6 Studio in Stockholm. The Grand Finals, with the top six teams in the Season #1 standing, will take place at DreamHack Summer 2014 where $100,000 will be at stake. More information and detailed schedule of Season #1 will be released within the coming weeks.

North America

Evil Genuises

Team Liquid

Qualified Team

Qualified Team

Europe West

Alliance

Fnatic

Qualified Team

Qualified Team

Europe East

Natus Vincere

Virtus.Pro

Qualified Team

Qualified Team

Invited Teams to Final Qualifier and eligibility

ASUS ROG DreamLeague Season #1 with $100,000 in prize money has 2 open slots for each Division. To qualify for Season #1, a team must place top two in the Final Qualifier where 8 teams per Division will participate. Each Division Qualifier will have two invited teams and 6 open slots (through 3 open qualifiers) for the Final Qualifier. Please note that for Europe West one qualifier has already been played at DreamHack Winter 2013 where House of Gamers and Team Property qualified for the Final Europe West Qualifier. Your team can sign-up below. Speed Gaming has been invited to the North American Division, as their team consists of 3 North American players and 3 Europe West and they chose to play in the North American Division.

Eligibility

Definition of the three divisions

The Division are defined as follows:

North American Division – All players that belong to the American continents are eligible, meaning both North, Central and South America, and will play on the US West or East server.

Europe East Division – All players from the following countries; Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan and will play on the Europe East server.

Europe West Division – All players from all other European countries, or countries close to or bordering to the European continent, are eligible for the Europe West Division and will play on the Europe West server.

Teams eligibility for a Division

* A team has to qualify to the Division where a majority of the team members live, either by citizenship or residency. (e.g. 3 players from Europe East and 2 from else where)

* If a team has an equal amount of players from two divisions, the team’s organisation country of incorporation, charter or similar will be the deciding factor. If the organisation is not from either of the 3 regions the team will be able to choose but can not change division for the reminding of the whole Season including qualifiers.

*A team is not eligible if the majority of the players in the team are not from either of the divisions (e.g. 3 players from Asia)

Invited teams to the Final Qualifier

North America

1. Cloud 9 – Invited

2. Team eHug – Invited

3. NoEarthSpirit – NA Qualifier 1

4. Denial eSports – NA Qualifier 1

5. Osiris Gaming – NA Qualifier 2

6. Taku – NA Qualifier 2

7. Qualified Team

8. Qualified Team

Europe West

1. Meet your Makers – Invited

2. Sigma.int – Invited

3. House of Gamers – Qualified at DreamHack Winter 2013

4. Team Property – Qualified at DreamHack Winter 2013

5. Zero Respect – EU West Qualifier 1

6. Sirkus Finlandia – EU West Qualifier 1

7. Qualified Team

8. Qualified Team

Europe East

1. RoX.KIS

2. Team Empire

3. eu4ia – EU East Qualifier 1

4. Power Rangers – EU East Qualifier 1

5. DNS – EU East Qualifier 2

6. kompas.gaming – EU East Qualifier 2

7. Qualified Team

8. Qualified Team

Qualifiers

Sign-up at the links below. All times are in CET, checkin time on IRC 30 minutes before qualifier begins.

North America

11-12 February – 18:00 – NA Qualifier 1

15 February – 18:00 – NA Qualifier 2

18-19 February – 18:00 – NA Qualifier 3

2 teams advance from each Qualifier to the Final Qualifer

Europe West

15 February – 15:00 – EU West Qualifier 1

18-19 February – 18:00 – EU West Qualifier 2

2 teams advance from each Qualifier to the Final Qualifer

Europe East

11-12 February – 18:00 – EU East Qualifier 1

15 February – 15:00 – EU East Qualifier 2

18-19 February – 18:00 – EU East Qualifier 3

2 teams advance from each Qualifier to the Final Qualifer

Final Qualifiers

22-23 February – NA Final Qualifier (8 teams – 2 teams advance to DreamLeague Season #1)

22-23 February – EU West Final Qualifier (8 teams – 2 teams advance to DreamLeague Season #1)

22-23 February – EU East Final Qualifier (8 teams – 2 teams advance to DreamLeague Season #1)

Contact

Please use our irc-channels on Quakenet #DreamLeague #DreamLeague.NA #DreamLeague.EUW #DreamLeague.EUE – You can also e-mail us at dota2 [at] dreamhack.se