DOTA 2 The International 10 – Group Phase: Day 3 – Preview

The most important and most anticipated Esports event of the year is in progress, DOTA 2 The International 10. It’s the final event of the DOTA Pro Circuit and, the tenth annual edition being disputed. This time, it returns to the European continent after an absence of 10 years. The invitation or participation format of the teams is similar to that used in the 9th edition, the point system based on the DOTA 2 Regional Leagues and Majors, was used to determine which teams were the participants.

The International 10 of DOTA 2, is the Esports event that distributes the most cash prizes, a total of $40,018,195 USD, which will be the prize pool that will be played in this 10th edition.

After the cancellation of the event in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the organizing committee decided that The International 10 would be held from October 07 to 17, 2021. As always, we are enjoying the group stage and, after finishing it, the final playoffs that would determine who is the DOTA 2 world champion team would be played.

The group stage of The International 10 is already underway, and we can see that in the matches that have already been played, the favorite teams in each of the groups have started by winning most or all of the maps played.

Next, we will observe how the two organizations are made up in The International 10.

Group A

• Evil Geniuses
• OG
• Virtus.pro
• Invictus Gaming
• Team Undying
• Alliance
• T1
• Team Aster
• Thunder Predator

Group B

• PSG.LGD
• Elephant
• Fnatic
• Team Secret
• Vici Gaming
• beastcoast
• Quincy Crew
• SG esports
• Team Spirit

For this day 3 of the competition in this group stage of The International 10, we will have a total of 20 matches, in which we will be able to observe approximately, the location of the different teams within the classification table in their respective groups. After this, some teams could be classified and some already eliminated.

Remember that the format of this The International 10 is similar to those previously disputed. All matches are best of 2 (bo2), the top 4 teams from each group will advance directly to the Upper Bracket from the main event. The last team in each group is automatically eliminated from the tournament and the remaining teams advance to the Lower Bracket.

In the playoffs, the game format is the best of 3 (bo3), except for the grand final of the tournament where the best of 5 (bo5) is played.