Dota 2 tournaments for amateurs and beginners

The path to major esports championships for aspiring players and teams should start with small-scale tournaments. Dota tournaments for beginners allow participants to improve their skills, enjoy the game, show themselves, and earn some money.

These competitive events are divided into semi-professional and amateur Dota 2 tournaments. They are usually held online and can vary in size, level of participants, and prize pool money.

Who organizes the amateur competition, and how to participate in them?

Such Dota 2 events for beginners are usually held by organizations working in the field of computer technology, for example:

educational establishments;
internet cafes;
mobile operators;
eSports organizations and sites;
bookmaker’s offices;
online trading platforms.

How to participate in amateur tournaments? First, it is necessary to subscribe to the pages of the organizers in social networks or follow the information on their websites. On the same sites, the schedule of games is laid out. Winners may not be awarded based on local tournament results. But there is also a prize fund formed by the organizer or the players themselves using contributions.

Competitions are usually held between teams of 5 participants in Captians’s Mode until one or two wins. To apply for a small-scale event, you usually only need to find the Dota 2 team, provide its name, and register shortly before the date of the event, leaving your contacts.

The system of participation in semi-professional competitions can involve open qualifications, often over several days. In this case, players and teams must register in advance as soon as the event’s start date is announced. After that, the organizers usually verify the participants, and only after that, they draw up the schedule of matches.

Such tournaments usually already have serious prize pools. Of course, there are none at the qualifying stage, but it still makes sense for beginner teams to participate. Indeed, even in the event of a loss, there is an opportunity to appear on the screens and even attract the attention of stronger teams.

The best amateur Dota 2 tournaments

There are a lot of such projects, but the following are the most popular:

Starladder Dota 2. One of the largest eSports venues hosts the second-largest Dota tournament after The International.
WePlay. The prize fund here is tens of thousands of dollars.
ESL Play. This esports company hosts numerous tournaments with NVIDIA.
Faceit. The main prize in Facit tournaments is skins.
CSPL. This site specializes in competitions for players from the CIS.
GoodGame. This Russian website hosts monthly tournaments with different prize money.
Dota2.net. The site regularly hosts competitions with prize pools of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Battle Cup. The Dota Battle Cup is held weekly on weekends.