On November 17, within the group stage of the Dota 2 Champions League 2021 Season 5 tournament, teams HellRaisers and Creepwave will play

Dota 2 Champions League 2021 Season 5 tournament within Tier 3 will be held from November 8 to November 28. This is an online tournament with a prize pool of $ 50,000. Nine teams will take part in the tournament. Eight teams received direct invitations, and one team entered the tournament through open qualifiers.

Format

The group stage will run from November 8 to November 22

• Single round-robin.
• All matches are Bo3.
• Top four teams advance to the upper bracket of the playoffs.
• 5th to 8th place teams advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs.
• Remaining teams are eliminated.

Tiebreaker rules

• If one or more of the tied teams should be eliminated or the tie is between upper/lower bracket seeding – Bo1 tiebreaker matches will be played till the tie is broken
• If two or more teams have an equal amount of points, the final standings will be ruled based on the following priority:
  • – Number of matches won 2:0.
  • – Maps difference.
  • – The sum of series wins for all of the teams that tied teams beat.
  • – Head-to-head result.

Playoffs stage will run from 23 November to 28 November

• Double-elimination bracket.
• All matches except Grand Final are Bo3.
• Grand Final is Bo5.

The main prize pool of the tournament will be $ 50,000.

On November 17, within the group stage, HellRaisers and Creepwave will meet in a duel. The organizers schedule the start of the meeting of the teams at 20:00.

Team Rosters

The favorite of this meeting is the Creepwave team. The bookmakers believe that the team will win with a probability of more than 63%. Team win rates for the last three months: Creepwave has a win rate of 56.90%, while HellRaisers has a win rate of 44.74%.

The teams have the following results in the last five meetings: Creepwave – 4 wins and 1 loss, while HellRaisers have 2 wins and 3 losses.

The best odds are for Creepwave 1.5 to win, HellRaisers 2.6 to win.