The Chongqing Major

[e][h]The Chongqing Major

League Information

Series:

Chongqing Major

Dota Pro Circuit

Organizers:

StarLadder
ImbaTV

Sponsor(s):

Chongqing Cable Networks (Co-organizer)
Zowie Gear
DXRACER
Damai (Tickets)

Type:

Offline

Location:

Chongqing

Venue:

BLOOMAGE Cultural and Sports Center (华熙文体中心)

Format:

GSL Group Stage
Double Elimination Playoffs

Prize Pool:

$1,000,000 USD

Start Date:

2019-01-19

End Date:

2019-01-27

Version:

7.20e

Teams:

16

Pro Circuit Points:

15,000

Liquipedia Tier:

Tier 1

Pro Circuit Tier:

Major

Links

Chronology

The Kuala Lumpur Major

DreamLeague S11

The Chongqing Major was the second Major of the 2018/19 season for StarLadder and ImbaTV's first overall Major.^[1] The event will see 16 teams from across the globe competing for $1,000,000 USD and valuable DPC points for The International 2019. In collaboration with ImbaTV and Chongqing Cable Networks, the main event will be hosted in Chongqing, China, from 19 to 27 January 2019.

Format[edit]

Qualifier
- 15 teams qualify through regional qualifiers: three teams each from Europe, China, and North America and two teams each from CIS, Southeast Asia, and South America.^[2]
- One team qualifies as the champion of The Bucharest Minor.
Group Stage^[3]
- 19 to 20 January 2019.
- Four groups of four teams each.
- Bo3 double-elimination (GSL) bracket.
- Top two teams from each group advance to the Upper Bracket of Main Event.
- Bottom two teams from each group advance to the Lower Bracket of Main Event.
Playoffs^[3]
- The playoffs will be held from January 21 to 27.
- Only the final three days will be in front of a live crowd.
- Double-elimination bracket.
- All games except Grand Finals and Lower Bracket Round 1 are Bo3.
- Lower Bracket Round 1 are Bo1.
- Grand Finals is Bo5.

Broadcast Talent[edit]

The talent for the English and Russian broadcasts was announced on January 10th.^[4]^[5] The talent for the Chinese broadcast was announced on January 12th.^[6]

English
Chinese
Russian
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Host:
- Richard (Richard Campbell)

Commentators:
- Lyrical (Gabriel Cruz)
- Fogged (Ioannis Loucas)
- TobiWan (Toby Dawson)
- Kyle (Kyle Freedman)

Interviewer:
- Malystryx (Lawrence Phillips)

Analysts:
- GoDz (David Parker)
- Lacoste (Dominik Stipić)
- Nahaz (Alan Bester)
- Black^ (Dominik Reitmeier)

Observers:
- Weppas (Johan Westberg)
- PimpmuckL (Jonathan Liebig)
- Bukka (Aleksandar Bukurecki)

Off-site Commentators:
- KillerPigeon (Darren Elmy)
- lizZard (Admir Salkanović)
- BreakyCPK (Nick Caras)
- Tsunami (Neal Khandheria)
- Bkop (Benjamin Kopilow)
- TrentPax (Trent MacKenzie)

Host:
- BBC (Zhang Hongsheng)

Commentators:
- CD (Tao Wei)
- 2009 (Wu Sheng)
- Haitao (Zhou Lingxiang)
- Mashall (Ma Shaowei)
- Wind (Wang Zhibo)
- Yuno (Wang Jing)
- ZSMJ (Gong Jian)
- LaNm (Zhang Zhicheng)
- 3shine

Host:
- Maelstorm (Vladimir Kuzminov)

Commentators:
- CaspeRRR (Roman Lepokhin)
- Droog (Dmytro Chumachenko)
- 4ce (Nikita Kotkov)
- Bafik (Oleksii Bafadarov)

Analysts:
- NS (Yaroslav Kuznetsov)
- LighTofHeaveN (Dmitry Kupriyanov)
- Smile (Sergey Revin)
- XBOCT (Oleksandr Dashkevych)

Interviewer:
- Tonya (Antonina Predko)

Off-site Commentators:
- Feaver (Oleg Skarzhinsky)
- Sm1Ley (Petro Banakh)
- Lex (Alexey Filippov)
- Adekvat (Rustam Mavliutov)
- Jam (Alexander Korotkov)
- Inmate (Dmitry Filinov)

Prize Pool[edit]

The prize pool for the tournament is $1,000,000 USD and 15,000 Pro Circuit points.

Participants[edit]

Player Info

Team Secret

1	Nisha
2	MidOne
3	zai
4	YapzOr
5	Puppey
C	SunBhie


Europe #1

Team Liquid⁷

1	shadow
2	MATUMBAMAN
3	MinD_ContRoL
4	GH
5	Kuroky
C	rmN


Europe #2

Alliance

1	qojqva
2	miCKe
3	Boxi
4	Taiga
5	iNSaNiA
C	Loda


Europe #3

The Pango^6,8

1	Naive-
2	Ceyler
3	Ghostik
4	KingR
5	CemaTheSlayer


CIS #1

Virtus.pro

1	RAMZES666
2	No[o]ne
3	9pasha
4	RodjER
5	Solo
C	ArsZeeqq


CIS #2

Team Aster

1	Sylar
2	loveyouloveme
3	Xxs
4	BoBoKa
5	Fenrir
C	BurNing


China #1

Vici Gaming

1	Paparazi灬
2	Ori
3	Yang
4	Fade
5	Dy
C	rOtK


China #2

PSG.LGD

1	Ame
2	Somnus丶M
3	Chalice
4	fy
5	xNova
C	QQQ


China #3

Fnatic

1	MP
2	Abed
3	iceiceice
4	DJ
5	Jabz
C	DuBu


Southeast Asia #1

TNC Predator²

1	Gabbi
2	Armel
3	ryOyr
4	Tims
5	ninjaboogie


Southeast Asia #2

J.Storm³

1	Moo
2	Bryle
3	FoREv
4	Fear
5	March
C	DeMoN


North America #1

Forward Gaming

1	YawaR
2	Resolut1on
3	UNiVeRsE
4	MSS
5	SVG
C	Aui_2000


North America #2

Evil Geniuses

1	Arteezy
2	SumaiL
3	s4
4	Cr1t-
5	Fly
C	BuLba


North America #3

Chaos Esports Club⁵

1	hFn
2	w33
3	tavo
4	Kingrd
5	MISERY
C	TeaGuvnor


South America #1

Thunder Predator^1,4

1	Atun
2	LeoStyle-
3	Frank
4	Matthew
5	Prada


South America #2

EHOME

1	eGo
2	ASD
3	Faith_bian
4	天命
5	y`
C	xiao8


The Bucharest Minor

¹ test123 was disqualified from the South America qualifier and replaced with the runner-up, Thunder Predator.^[7]

²

Kuku was banned from attending the tournament.^[8]

ryOyr stood in for him. TNC did not incur any point penalties.

³

MiLAN was replaced by

Fear.^[9]

⁴

Jeimari left Thunder Predator due to personal reasons.^[10] He was replaced by

LeoStyle-.^[11]

⁵ PaiN Gaming was signed by Chaos Esports Club.^[12]

⁶ NoPangolier renamed themselves The Pango.^[13]

⁷

Miracle- did not play in the tournament due to a personal matter.^[14]

shadow stood in for him.^[15]

⁸

Zayac was unable to secure a visa.^[16]

KingR stood in for him.

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
1.	Virtus.pro	2-0	4-2
2.	EHOME	2-1	5-3
3.	TNC Predator	1-2	3-4
4.	Chaos Esports Club	0-2	1-4

Matches
Opening Matches
VP	2 VP EHOME January 19, 2019 - 10:00 CST 27m50s 23m03s 49m39s	1	EHOME
CHAOS	0 CHAOS TNC January 19, 2019 - 10:00 CST 38m37s 22m04s	2	TNC
Winners' Match
VP	2 VP TNC January 19, 2019 - 13:50 CST 33m19s 25m38s 23m46s	1	TNC
Losers' Match
EHOME	2 EHOME CHAOS January 19, 2019 - 13:40 CST 33m14s 21m41s 19m27s	1	CHAOS
Decider Match
TNC	0 TNC EHOME January 19, 2019 - 17:00 CST 43m33s 35m00s	2	EHOME

Group B[edit]

Group B
1.	PSG.LGD	2-0	4-1
2.	Team Secret	2-1	4-3
3.	Forward Gaming	1-2	4-5
4.	Thunder Predator	0-2	1-4

Matches
Opening Matches
Secret	2 Secret TP January 19, 2019 - 10:00 CST 18m44s 34m16s	0	TP
PSG.LGD	2 PSG.LGD FWD January 19, 2019 - 10:00 CST 30m48s 49m59s 26m49s	1	FWD
Winners' Match
Secret	0 Secret PSG.LGD January 19, 2019 - 13:50 CST 34m04s 43m40s	2	PSG.LGD
Losers' Match
TP	1 TP FWD January 19, 2019 - 13:55 CST 39m44s 35m52s 34m10s	2	FWD
Decider Match
Secret	2 Secret FWD January 19, 2019 - 17:35 CST 33m27s 28m15s 35m38s	1	FWD

Group C[edit]

Group C
1.	Team Liquid	2-0	4-1
2.	Vici Gaming	2-1	4-2
3.	The Pango	1-2	3-4
4.	J.Storm	0-2	0-4

Matches
Opening Matches
Liquid	2 Liquid Pango January 20, 2019 - 10:00 CST 20m13s 39m36s 56m35s	1	Pango
VG	2 VG J.S January 20, 2019 - 10:00 CST 34m17s 40m18s	0	J.S
Winners' Match
Liquid	2 Liquid VG January 20, 2019 - 14:00 CST 36m41s 51m56s	0	VG
Losers' Match
Pango	2 Pango J.S January 20, 2019 - 14:00 CST 51m41s 24m45s	0	J.S
Decider Match
VG	2 VG Pango January 20, 2019 - 17:00 CST 28m32s 41m27s	0	Pango

Group D[edit]

Group D
1.	Fnatic	2-0	4-0
2.	Evil Geniuses	2-1	4-3
3.	Alliance	1-2	3-4
4.	Team Aster	0-2	0-4

Matches
Opening Matches
EG	2 EG Aster January 20, 2019 - 10:00 CST 35m45s 21m31s	0	Aster
Fnatic	2 Fnatic [A] January 20, 2019 - 10:10 CST 33m52s 49m19s	0	[A]
Winners' Match
EG	0 EG Fnatic January 20, 2019 - 12:45 CST 34m41s 35m52s	2	Fnatic
Losers' Match
Aster	0 Aster [A] January 20, 2019 - 12:55 CST 19m14s 24m27s	2	[A]
Decider Match
EG	2 EG [A] January 20, 2019 - 15:45 CST 42m18s 20m02s 23m55s	1	[A]

Main Event[edit]

Upper Bracket R1 (Bo3)

PSG.LGD

2

Vici Gaming

0

Virtus.pro

2

Evil Geniuses

0

Fnatic

1

EHOME

2

Team Liquid

0

Team Secret

2

Upper Bracket R2 (Bo3)

PSG.LGD

0

Virtus.pro

2

EHOME

0

Team Secret

2

Upper Bracket Final (Bo3)

Virtus.pro

2

Team Secret

1

Lower Bracket R1 (Bo1)

Alliance

0

Chaos EC

1

The Pango

0

Thunder Predator

1

Forward Gaming

0

J.Storm

1

TNC Predator

1

Team Aster

0

Lower Bracket R2 (Bo3)

Vici Gaming

2

Chaos EC

1

Evil Geniuses

2

Thunder Predator

0

Fnatic

2

J.Storm

0

Team Liquid

2

TNC Predator

0

Lower Bracket R3 (Bo3)

Vici Gaming

1

Evil Geniuses

2

Fnatic

2

Team Liquid

0

Lower Bracket R4 (Bo3)

EHOME

0

Evil Geniuses

2

PSG.LGD

2

Fnatic

0

Lower Bracket R5 (Bo3)

Evil Geniuses

2

PSG.LGD

0

Lower Bracket Final (Bo3)

Team Secret

2

Evil Geniuses

0

Grand Final (Bo5)

Virtus.pro

1

Team Secret

3

Additional Content[edit]

Streams[edit]

Interviews[edit]

2019-01-20 | Players stories: zai - The Chongqing Major by Tonya of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-20 | Players stories: Atun - The Chongqing Major by Tonya of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-21 | Players stories: March - The Chongqing Major by Tonya of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-21 | Players stories: GH - The Chongqing Major by Tonya of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-21 | Players stories: MISERY - The Chongqing Major by Tonya of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-21 | Players stories: Boxi - The Chongqing Major by Malystryx of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-22 | Players stories: Chalice - The Chongqing Major by Malystryx of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-22 | Players stories: Resolut1on - The Chongqing Major by Tonya of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-22 | Players stories: ninjaboogie - The Chongqing Major by Tonya of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-22 | Players stories: RodjER - The Chongqing Major by Tonya of StarLadder (trans. )
2019-01-23 | Players stories: Faith_bian - The Chongqing Major by Tonya of StarLadder (trans. )

Highlights[edit]

Additional Data[edit]

Statistics[edit]

Picks

Radiant Side

Dire Side

Hero

∑

W

L

WR

%T

∑

W

L

WR

∑

W

L

WR

Details

1

Lich

48

25

23

52.08%

51.06%

28

15

13

53.57%

20

10

50.00%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	Pango	7	3	4	42.86%
2	VP	6	4	2	66.67%
3	Fnatic	5	4	1	80.00%
4	EG	5	2	3	40.00%
5	TNC	5	1	4	20.00%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Tusk	12	4	8	33.33%
2	Magnus	10	5	5	50.00%
3	Juggernaut	10	4	6	40.00%
4	Tidehunter	10	2	8	20.00%
5	Medusa	8	4	4	50.00%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Grimstroke	18	11	7	61.11%
2	Tiny	16	5	11	31.25%
3	Phantom Assassin	9	6	3	66.67%
4	Dark Seer	9	4	5	44.44%
5	Outworld Destroyer	8	5	3	62.50%

2

Grimstroke

40

15

25

37.50%

42.55%

21

8

13

38.10%

19

7

12

36.84%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	J.S	6	1	5	16.67%
2	Liquid	4	3	1	75.00%
3	EG	4	1	3	25.00%
4	Secret	4	1	3	25.00%
5	FWD	3	2	1	66.67%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Sven	10	1	9	10.00%
2	Juggernaut	9	2	7	22.22%
3	Terrorblade	8	4	4	50.00%
4	Tiny	8	3	5	37.50%
5	Phantom Assassin	7	3	4	42.86%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Lich	18	7	11	38.89%
2	Earth Spirit	11	3	8	27.27%
3	Tusk	10	9	1	90.00%
4	Outworld Destroyer	8	2	6	25.00%
5	Tidehunter	7	4	3	57.14%

3

Earth Spirit

36

22

14

61.11%

38.30%

15

10

5

66.67%

21

12

9

57.14%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	EG	5	5	0	100.00%
2	VP	4	3	1	75.00%
3	Fnatic	3	2	1	66.67%
4	VG	3	2	1	66.67%
5	CHAOS	3	1	2	33.33%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Terrorblade	7	6	1	85.71%
2	Lich	7	5	2	71.43%
3	Grimstroke	6	5	1	83.33%
4	Juggernaut	5	5	0	100.00%
5	Nature's Prophet	5	4	1	80.00%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Tusk	12	7	5	58.33%
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The Chongqing Major

Format[edit]

Broadcast Talent[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Participants[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Main Event[edit]

Additional Content[edit]

Streams[edit]

Interviews[edit]

Highlights[edit]

Qualifiers[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Playoffs[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

Additional Data[edit]

Statistics[edit]