SEA Qualifiers for 1 Major and 1 Minor Announced

Vignesh Raghuram

30o, Dec, 2017

Two more tournaments have announced their Open Qualifiers, ESL One: Katowice and SL i-League Invitational Season 4 have both announced qualifiers with clashing dates. This will definitely pose a huge problem to aspiring Pro teams who try to participate in every event possible.

Will these organizations come together and find a solution? Will Valve step in? Or will teams just have to choose to participate in one over the other??

SL i-League Invitational Season 4

China will be the location of the 4^th iteration of the StarLadder i-League Invitational. It will take place from the 1^st to 4^th of February and will have $300,000 and 300 Qualifier Points on the line.

8 Teams will be taking part in the main event. Team Liquid and Newbee were directly invited to the event while SG Esports, Team Kinguin and Team Empire have already qualified for the event via the South American, European and CIS qualifiers respectively.

The SEA Open Qualifiers for this event will be conducted on the Faceit platform on January 6^th -7^th, followed by the Regional Qualifiers which will kickoff on January 9^th.

Open Qualifier Details

Schedule:

January 6^th, 2018

Rounds	IST	SGT
Round of 256	01:30 PM	04:00 PM
Round of 128	02:45 PM	05:15 PM
Round of 64	04:00 PM	06:30 PM
Round of 32	05:15 PM	07:45 PM
Round of 16	06:30 PM	09:00 PM
Quarterfinals	07:45 PM	10:15 PM

January 7^th, 2018

Rounds	IST	SGT
Semifinals	02:30 PM	05:00 PM

The top two teams from the Open Qualifiers will move on to the Regional Qualifiers.
All rounds will be BO1s except for the semifinals which will be BO3 matchups

Registration Info

Registration Link: Click HERE

Registations Close: 6^th January, 12:30 PM IST | 03:00 PM SGT

ESL One 2018: Katowice

The qualifier details of the 5^th Dota Major of this season has just been announced. The ESL One 2018: Katowice is set to take place on February 24-25, in Katowice, Poland. Just like the other majors, this tournament will have $1,000,000 and 1500 Qualification Points for TI8 on the line.

With 16 teams set to participate in the Main Event, the top 3 teams on the Dota 2 Pro Circuit table; Team Liquid, Team Secret and Virtus Pro have already been invited to the event. While the 7 other invites are yet to be announced, ESL has released the details of the qualifiers.

Qualifier Schedule

Open Qualifier Schedule

Regions	Dates
North American Open Qualifiers	January 7^th 2018
South American Open Qualifiers	January 6^th 2018
South East Asian Open Qualifiers	January 6^th 2018
European Open Qualifiers	January 6^th 2018
CIS Open Qualifiers	January 6^th 2018

Regional Qualifier Schedule

9^th January 2018 – 12^th January 2018

Qualifier Format

Open Qualifiers:

Up to 512 teams
Single elimination, BO1s (except for the last round, which will be BO3s)
4 teams qualify for the closed qualifier

Closed Qualifiers:

12 teams in total
Single elimination, BO3s (except for The Grand Finals, which is a BO5)
8 teams directly invited
4 teams qualify through open qualifiers
The top 4 teams get a bye in round 1

Registration Info

Open qualifiers for all regions outside China are being held through the ESL Play website. You can register for them on the below links

• Europe
• CIS
• North America
• South America
• SEA

Registrations close on 6^th January 2018. Only 512 slots are available, so hurry up and register your team before they close.

Streaming info

AFK Gaming will be streaming select SEA Open Qualifier matches on our Twitch Channel.

Twitch Stream Link

Images Sourced from ESL and Starladder