Valve has finally posted an update on the upcoming Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) season, detailing out league formats, qualifiers, and more ahead of its return on January 18th. The structure for 2021 will see the DPC divided into two seasons leading up to the International 10 that is scheduled to take place in August 2021.
Matches for these leagues will take place every day at the following times.
Upper Division (Time in SGT) | |||||||
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Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
04:00 PM | China | SEA | China | SEA | China | ||
07:00 PM | China | SEA | SEA | China | |||
10:00 PM | CIS | CIS | |||||
01:00 AM | Europe | Europe | CIS | CIS | Europe | CIS | |
04:00 AM | Europe | SA | NA | SA | Europe | NA | |
07:00 AM | NA | SA | NA | SA | SA | NA |
Lower Division (Time in SGT) | |||||||
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Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
04:00 PM | China | SEA | |||||
07:00 PM | SEA | CIS | CIS | CIS | |||
10:00 PM | CIS | Europe | Europe | CIS | Europe | ||
01:00 AM | Europe | SA | SA | SA | |||
04:00 AM | SA | NA | Europe | SA | NA | ||
07:00 AM | NA | NA | NA | ||||
10:00 AM | |||||||
01:00 PM | China | SEA | SEA | China | SEA | China | China |
The Top 4 teams from each region’s upper division will move on as an automatic qualifier for the majors.
For the first major of the new DPC league, Europe and China will receive four slots each, SEA and CIS will receive three slots, while North America and South America will receive two slots each.
After the end of the season, the bottom two teams in the Upper Division will get bumped down to the Lower Division. While the Top 2 Lower Division teams, will be promoted to the Upper Division.
The bottom two teams from the Lower Division will be eliminated from the league. Two teams from qualifiers will be able to make their way into the DPC system.
Valve also made a couple of interesting announcements along with this blog post that has largely gone unnoticed.
The omission of WePlay! who by all accounts was one of the best Dota 2 tournament organizers in 2020, is quite surprising.