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 21, Team Empire and B8 will meet on the group stage. The organizers schedule the start of the meeting of the teams at 14:15.
Teams Roster
Team Empire line-up:
- — watson
- — re1bl
- — Limitless
- — Gilgir
- — malady
B8 line-up:
- — eine
- — goddam
- — Pikachu
- — layme
- — chshrct
Team Empire is considered the favorite of this meeting. Bookmakers believe that the team will win with a probability of more than 78%. Teams’ win rates in the last three months: Team Empire has a win rate of 45.00%, while B8 has a win rate of 14.29%.
The teams have the following results in the last five meetings: Team Empire – 1 victory and 4 losses, while B8 has 0 wins and 5 losses.
The best odds are for Team Empire 1.2 to win, B8 to 4.35 to win.
