The Boston Major 2016

[e][h]The Boston Major 2016

League Information

Series:

Dota Major Championships

Organizer:

PGL

Sponsor(s):

Valve

Type:

Offline

Location:

Boston

Venue:

Wang Theater

Format:

Group Stage
Single-elimination bracket

Prize Pool:

$3,000,000 USD

Start Date:

2016-12-03

End Date:

2016-12-10

Version:

6.88f

Teams:

16

Dota TV Ticket:

Free in Dota 2 Client

Liquipedia Tier:

Tier 1

Pro Circuit Tier:

Major

Links

Chronology

Manila Major 2016

Kiev Major 2017

The Boston Major is the first Major of the 2016-2017 season. The main event takes place at the Wang Theater in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Notably, The Boston Major is the first publisher sponsored event to not feature a double-elimination bracket. Instead, the 16 participating teams will be seeded into a single elimination bracket based on their performance in the group stage.^[1]

Format[edit]

Open Qualifiers - October 23rd - October 26th, 2016
- Eight Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers, two brackets for each region.
  - The winners of each Regional Qualifier will advance to the respective Main Qualifier.
Main Qualifiers - October 27th - October 31st, 2016
- Four Regional Qualifiers.
  - One group containing all teams, with the top four teams advancing to the Regional Double-elimination Playoff Bracket.
  - The winner and runner-up of each Regional Playoff Bracket will join the eight directly invited teams in Boston.
Group Stage - December 3rd - December 4th, 2016
- Four groups of four teams
  - Bo3 GSL double-elimination format
  - The top seed of each group will get a random bottom seed from another group as the opponent in the Main Event.
  - The second seed will similarly face off against a random third seed as the opponent.
Main Event - December 7th - December 10th, 2016
- Teams are seeded into a single-elimination bracket after the Group Stage.
  - All games are Bo3, with Bo5 grand finals.

Broadcast Talent[edit]

Host:
- Machine (Alex Richardson)

Commentators:
- Capitalist (Austin Walsh)
- Godz (David Parker)
- LD (David Gorman)
- Merlini (Ben Wu)
- ODPixel (Owen Davies)
- TobiWan (Toby Dawson)

Observers:
- Skrff (Rikard Holm Melin)
- Weppas (Johan Westberg)

Analysts:
- Fogged (Ioannis Loucas)
- PyrionFlax (Ted Forsyth)
- Sheever (Jorien van der Heijden)
- Winter (Chan Litt Binn)
- Purge (Kevin Godec)

Interviewers:
- SirActionSlacks (Jake Kanner)
- AutumnWindz (Joshua Lee)
- KBBQ (Jack Chen)

Host:
- Faker (Ivan Demkin)

Commentators:
- GodHunt (Viktor Volkov)
- CaspeRRR (Roman Lepokhin)
- LighTofHeaveN (Dmitry Kupriyanov)
- v1lat (Vitalii Volochai)
- Droog (Dmytro Chumachenko)
- 4ce (Nikita Kotkov)

Analysts:
- XBOCT (Oleksandr Dashkevych)
- NS (Yaroslav Kuznetsov)
- PGG (Vladimir Anosov)
- Goblak (Artur Kostenko)

Host:
- BBC (Zhang Hongsheng)

Commentators:
- 78 (Du Junnan)
- MengLuoKe (Yang Zhou)
- FreeAgain (Hao Peng)
- 5400 (Yang Huaining)
- Haitao (Zhou Lingxiang)
- Mrrr (Meng Rui)
- Wind (Wang Zhibo)

Analysts:
- 357 (Yao Yi)
- AA (Li Qiming)
- Ams (Chen Juan)
- Yaya (Chen Ya)
- SDN (Shi Danni)

Prize Pool[edit]

$3,000,000 USD are spread among the participants as seen below:

Participants[edit]

Player Info

Invited Teams[edit]

Wings Gaming

1	shadow
2	bLink
3	Faith_bian
4	y`
5	iceice


Invited

Digital Chaos

1	Resolut1on
2	w33
3	MoonMeander
4	MiSeRy
5	Saksa
C	Blitz
C	BuLba


Invited

Evil Geniuses

1	Arteezy
2	Suma1L
3	UNiVeRsE
4	zai
5	Cr1t-
C	Fear


Invited

Newbee

1	uuu9
2	Sccc
3	kpii
4	Faith
5	Kaka


Invited

EHOME

1	Sylar
2	old chicken
3	eLeVeN
4	LaNm
5	Garder


Invited

LGD Gaming¹

1	Ame
2	Maybe
3	Jixing
4	Xz
5	Victoria


Invited

OG

1	N0tail
2	ana
3	s4
4	JerAx
5	Fly
C	7ckngMad


Invited

MVP Phoenix

1	Velo
2	QO
3	Forev
4	Febby
5	DuBu


Invited

Qualified Teams[edit]

Team NP

1	Aui_2000
2	EternaLEnVy
3	MSS
4	SVG
5	1437


Americas

compLexity Gaming

1	Moo
2	canceL^^
3	monkeys-forever
4	Zfreek
5	melonzz


Americas

LGD.Forever Young²

1	END
2	Super
3	Yao
4	xiao8
5	DDC


China

iG Vitality³

1	Paparazi灬
2	Sakata
3	InJuly
4	BurNIng
5	Q


China

Ad Finem

1	Madara
2	ThuG
3	SkyLark
4	Maybe Next Time
5	SsaSpartan
C	SKANKS224


Europe

Virtus.pro

1	RAMZES666
2	No[o]ne
3	9pasha
4	Lil
5	Solo


Europe

Team Faceless

1	Black^
2	Jabz
3	iceiceice
4	xy-
5	NutZ


Southeast Asia

WarriorsGaming.Unity

1	Ahjit
2	NaNa
3	KaNG
4	Ahfu
5	xNova-


Southeast Asia

¹ Execration was replaced by LGD due to visa issues.^[2]

² Monet and lpc failed to get a Visa in time. END and DDC replaced them with the permission from Valve.^[3]

³ super and dogf1ghts failed to get a Visa in time. BurNIng and Q, the former already been registered as a sub, replaced them as the stand-ins. Valve granted permission for Q to sub in.^[4]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
1.	Digital Chaos	2-0	4-0
2.	Wings Gaming	2-1	5-2
3.	WarriorsGaming.Unity	1-2	2-5
4.	LGD.Forever Young	0-2	0-4

Group A Matches
Opening Matches
Wings	1 Wings WG.U 3 December 2016 - 10:00 EST 61m15s 48m36s 43m10s	2	WG.U
DC	2 DC LFY 3 December 2016 - 10:00 EST 29m08s 71m19s	0	LFY
Winners' Match
WG.U	0 WG.U DC 3 December 2016 - 14:00 EST 35m46s 26m14s	2	DC
Losers' Match
Wings	2 Wings LFY 3 December 2016 - 16:30 EST 32m37s 26m56s	0	LFY
Decider Match
WG.U	0 WG.U Wings 3 December 2016 - 18:20 EST 37m30s 56m53s	2	Wings

Group B[edit]

Group B
1.	Virtus.pro	2-0	4-0
2.	Newbee	2-1	4-2
3.	Team NP	1-2	2-5
4.	MVP Phoenix	0-2	1-4

Group B Matches
Opening Matches
Newbee	2 Newbee MVP.P 3 December 2016 - 10:00 EST 21m08s 30m17s	0	MVP.P
VP	2 VP NP 3 December 2016 - 10:00 EST 24m25s 25m33s	0	NP
Winners' Match
Newbee	0 Newbee VP 3 December 2016 - 12:15 EST 27m42 61m34s	2	VP
Losers' Match
MVP.P	1 MVP.P NP 3 December 2016 - 15:00 EST 26m00s 21m41s 49m12s	2	NP
Decider Match
Newbee	2 Newbee NP 3 December 2016 - 18:30 EST 52m33s 27m52s	0	NP

Group C[edit]

Group C
1.	LGD Gaming	2-0	4-0
2.	compLexity Gaming	2-1	4-4
3.	Evil Geniuses	1-2	4-4
4.	Team Faceless	0-2	0-4

Group C Matches
Opening Matches
EG	1 EG coL 4 December 2016 - 10:00 EST 33m30s 47m34s 39m12s	2	coL
fL	0 fL LGD 4 December 2016 - 10:00 EST 35m34s 27m41s	2	LGD
Winners' Match
coL	0 coL LGD 4 December 2016 - 14:00 EST 25m38s 28m23s	2	LGD
Losers' Match
EG	2 EG fL 4 December 2016 - 16:05 EST 25m33s 49m43s	0	fL
Decider Match
coL	2 coL EG 4 December 2016 - 19:00 EST 61m45s 36m38s 30m06s	1	EG

Group D[edit]

Group D
1.	OG	2-0	4-2
2.	EHOME	2-1	5-4
3.	Ad Finem	1-2	4-5
4.	iG Vitality	0-2	2-4

Group D Matches
Opening Matches
OG	2 OG iG.V 4 December 2016 - 10:00 EST 24m17s 32m52s 27m32s	1	iG.V
EHOME	1 EHOME AF 4 December 2016 - 10:00 EST 35m46s 31m57s 15m54s	2	AF
Winners' Match
OG	2 OG AF 4 December 2016 - 13:00 EST 21m36s 31m42s 31m33s	1	AF
Losers' Match
iG.V	1 iG.V EHOME 4 December 2016 - 16:00 EST 22m40s 32m05s 20m27s	2	EHOME
Decider Match
AF	1 AF EHOME 4 December 2016 - 19:00 EST 41m26s 58m23s 36m53s	2	EHOME

Main Event[edit]

Round of 16

Virtus.pro

2

iG Vitality

0

Evil Geniuses

2

Wings Gaming

0

compLexity

0

WG.Unity

2

OG

2

MVP Phoenix

0

Digital Chaos

2

Team Faceless

0

EHOME

1

Team NP

2

Ad Finem

2

Newbee

1

LGD Gaming

0

LGD.Forever Young

2

Quarterfinals

Virtus.pro

0

Evil Geniuses

2

WG.Unity

1

OG

2

Digital Chaos

2

Team NP

0

Ad Finem

2

LGD.Forever Young

1

Semifinals

Evil Geniuses

0

OG

2

Digital Chaos

0

Ad Finem

2

Grand Final

OG

3

Ad Finem

1

Trivia[edit]

This was the first Valve-sponsored event that Puppey did not attend as a player, as Team Secret finished 4th in the Europe Qualifier. The same went for MMY, who was inactive at the time.
MiSeRy and DDC became the only players to have attended every single Valve event as an active player. UNiVeRsE had also attended every Valve event, but was only a sub during The International 2011 while Hao attended the major, but only as a sub for Newbee.
Jabz became the first Thai player to attend a Valve event since The International 2011.

Additional Content[edit]

Streams[edit]

dotamajor on Twitch.tv
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dotamajor4 on Twitch.tv
dotamajors on YouTube
dota2 on Facebook
dotamajorRU on Twitch.tv
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dotamajorRU3 on Twitch.tv
dotamajorRU4 on Twitch.tv
FroggedTV on Twitch.tv
Dota2tv.pl on Twitch.tv
Spaziogames on Twitch.tv
bostonmajor on PandaTV

Player Profiles[edit]

2016-12-08 | The Boston Major - Player Profiles: JerAx (OG) by PGL
2016-12-08 | The Boston Major - Player Profiles: Rose (Team NP) by PGL
2016-12-08 | The Boston Major - Player Profiles: kpii (Newbee) by PGL
2016-12-09 | The Boston Major - Player Profiles: MiSeRy (Digital Chaos) by PGL

Team Intros[edit]

Additional Data[edit]

Statistics[edit]

Picks

Radiant Side

Dire Side

Hero

∑

W

L

WR

%T

∑

W

L

WR

∑

W

L

WR

Details

1

Rubick

42

23

19

54.76%

49.41%

19

15

4

78.95%

23

8

15

34.78%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	AF	9	6	3	66.67%
2	DC	5	4	1	80.00%
3	WG.U	4	2	2	50.00%
4	Newbee	3	3	0	100.00%
5	OG	3	2	1	66.67%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Ogre Magi	10	6	4	60.00%
2	Luna	9	7	2	77.78%
3	Juggernaut	8	5	3	62.50%
4	Nyx Assassin	8	5	3	62.50%
5	Timbersaw	8	5	3	62.50%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Shadow Demon	12	7	5	58.33%
2	Juggernaut	10	5	5	50.00%
3	Sand King	9	7	2	77.78%
4	Dragon Knight	9	5	4	55.56%
5	Ogre Magi	9	5	4	55.56%

2

Ogre Magi

40

17

23

42.50%

47.06%

20

11

9

55.00%

20

6

14

30.00%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	EHOME	7	4	3	57.14%
2	AF	6	3	3	50.00%
3	Newbee	5	3	2	60.00%
4	EG	5	1	4	20.00%
5	VP	3	2	1	66.67%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Rubick	10	6	4	60.00%
2	Nyx Assassin	9	5	4	55.56%
3	Juggernaut	7	2	5	28.57%
4	Sniper	6	3	3	50.00%
5	Clockwerk	6	2	4	33.33%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Mirana	12	5	7	41.67%
2	Shadow Demon	11	8	3	72.73%
3	Rubick	9	4	5	44.44%
4	Batrider	9	1	8	11.11%
5	Luna	8	4	4	50.00%

3

Luna

34

21

13

61.76%

40.00%

24

16

8

66.67%

10

5

50.00%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	OG	5	5	0	100.00%
2	EHOME	5	2	3	40.00%
3	AF	4	3	1	75.00%
4	NP	4	2	2	50.00%
5	WG.U	4	2	2	50.00%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Shadow Demon	16	9	7	56.25%
2	Rubick	9	7	2	77.78%
3	Legion Commander	7	6	1	85.71%
4	Timbersaw	7	5	2	71.43%
5	Sand King	7	4	3	57.14%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Shadow Demon	13	8	5	61.54%
2	Juggernaut	9	6	3	66.67%
3	Clockwerk	8	6	2	75.00%
4	Mirana	8	4	4	50.00%
5	Ogre Magi	8	4	4	50.00%

4

Shadow Demon

33

17

16

51.52%

38.82%

17

11

6

64.71%

16

6

10

37.50%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	OG	6	4	2	66.67%
2	AF	6	2	4	33.33%
3	EG	4	3	1	75.00%
4	NP	4	1	3	25.00%
5	WG.U	3	1	2	33.33%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Luna	16	9	7	56.25%
2	Mirana	11	7	4	63.64%
3	Dragon Knight	8	3	5	37.50%
4	Slardar	7	6	1	85.71%
5	Clockwerk	7	2	5	28.57%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Luna	13	5	8	38.46%
2	Rubick	12	5	7	41.67%
3	Ogre Magi	11	3	8	27.27%
4	Warlock	7	2	5	28.57%
5	Sniper	6	4	2	66.67%

5

Mirana

29

17

12

58.62%

34.12%

13

9

4

69.23%

16

8

50.00%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	coL	7	3	4	42.86%
2	AF	4	2	2	50.00%
3	NP	3	3	0	100.00%
4	EG	3	2	1	66.67%
5	OG	3	2	1	66.67%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Shadow Demon	11	7	4	63.64%
2	Nyx Assassin	7	4	3	57.14%
3	Weaver	6	4	2	66.67%
4	Lifestealer	6	3	3	50.00%
5	Luna	5	3	2	60.00%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Ogre Magi	12	7	5	58.33%
2	Luna	8	4	4	50.00%
3	Rubick	8	4	4	50.00%
4	Batrider	6	5	1	83.33%
5	Sand King	5	5	0	100.00%

85 games played

52W - 33L (61.18%)

33W - 52L (38.82%)

Click here for complete statistics table

Country Representation[edit]

#	Country / Region	Representation	Players
1	China	28 / 80 (35%)	Ame, bLink, BurNIng, eLeVeN, END, Faith, Faith_bian, Garder, iceice, InJuly, Jixing, Kaka, LaNm, Maybe, old chicken, Paparazi灬, Q, Sakata, Sccc, shadow, Super, Sylar, uuu9, Victoria, xiao8, Xz, y`, Yao
2	United States	7 / 80 (9%)	melonzz, monkeys-forever, Moo, MSS, SVG, UNiVeRsE, Zfreek
3	Canada	5 / 80 (6%)	1437, Arteezy, Aui_2000, EternaLEnVy, MoonMeander
3	Greece	5 / 80 (6%)	Madara, Maybe Next Time, SkyLark, SsaSpartan, ThuG
3	Malaysia	5 / 80 (6%)	Ahfu, Ahjit, KaNG, NaNa, xNova-
6	South Korea	4 / 80 (5%)	DuBu, Febby, Forev, QO
7	Australia	3 / 80 (4%)	ana, kpii, Velo
7	Denmark	3 / 80 (4%)	Cr1t-, MiSeRy, N0tail
7	Russia	3 / 80 (4%)	9pasha, RAMZES666, Solo
7	Singapore	3 / 80 (4%)	iceiceice, NutZ, xy-
7	Ukraine	3 / 80 (4%)	Lil, No[o]ne, Resolut1on
12	Romania	2 / 80 (3%)	canceL^^, w33
12	Sweden	2 / 80 (3%)	s4, zai
14	Finland	1 / 80 (1%)	JerAx
14	Germany	1 / 80 (1%)	Black^
14	Israel	1 / 80 (1%)	Fly
14	Macau	1 / 80 (1%)	DDC
14	North Macedonia	1 / 80 (1%)	Saksa
14	Pakistan	1 / 80 (1%)	Suma1L
14	Thailand	1 / 80 (1%)	Jabz

Viewership Stats[edit]

Viewership Stats
Peak Viewers	469 811
Average Viewers	215 822
Hours Watched	16 402 414

Viewership stats for this page does not include the Chinese platforms.

References[edit]

↑ Dota Team (3 October 2016). "The Boston Major". Valve Corporation. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
↑ Wykrhm Reddy (2016-11-30). "LGD will be replacing Execration at The Boston Major due to visa issues. They leave for Boston tomorrow. #BostonMajor". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
↑ LGD Gaming (2016-11-23). "关于LGD.FY战队出征秋季赛签证情况和人员临时调整的公告 (LGD.FY's announcement of the temporary roster change for The Boston Major)". Weibo. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
↑ Wykrhm Reddy (2016-11-29). "Boston Updates. #BostonMajor". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-11-29.

[Boston_Major_announcement-1] Dota Team (3 October 2016). "The Boston Major". Valve Corporation. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

[LGD_will_be_replacing_Execration-2] Wykrhm Reddy (2016-11-30). "LGD will be replacing Execration at The Boston Major due to visa issues. They leave for Boston tomorrow. #BostonMajor". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-11-30.

[LFY_roster_change-3] LGD Gaming (2016-11-23). "关于LGD.FY战队出征秋季赛签证情况和人员临时调整的公告 (LGD.FY's announcement of the temporary roster change for The Boston Major)". Weibo. Retrieved 2016-11-23.

[iG.V_roster_change-4] Wykrhm Reddy (2016-11-29). "Boston Updates. #BostonMajor". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-11-29.

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The Boston Major 2016

Format[edit]

Broadcast Talent[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Participants[edit]

Invited Teams[edit]

Qualified Teams[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Main Event[edit]

Trivia[edit]

Additional Content[edit]

Streams[edit]

Player Profiles[edit]

Team Intros[edit]

Additional Data[edit]

Statistics[edit]

Country Representation[edit]

Viewership Stats[edit]

References[edit]