Dota 2 Champions League Season 8
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Dota 2 Champions League Season 8
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
Winline
Server:
Luxembourg
Type:
Online
Location:
CIS
EuropeFormat:
Round-robin group stage
Double-elimination playoffs
Double-elimination playoffs
Prize pool:
$50,000 USD
Start Date:
2022-02-21
End Date:
2022-03-31
Teams:
17
Liquipedia tier:
Links
Chronology
Format[edit]
- Participants
- Seventeen teams
- Thirteen invited teams
- Four teams from open qualifiers
- Fourteen teams are seeded into the group stage
- Three teams are seeded into the playoffs stage
- Seventeen teams
- Group Stage – February 21th - March 25th, 2022
- Two groups of seven teams each
- Single round-robin
- All matches are Bo3
- Top two teams of each group advance to the upper bracket of the playoffs
- 3rd place team of each group advance to Play-in 2
- 4th place teams of each group advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs
- 5th place team of each group advance to Play-in 1
- Remaining teams of each group are eliminated
- Click here for 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 – March 27th - March 31st, 2022
- Double-elimination bracket
- All matches except Grand Final are Bo3
- Grand Final is Bo5
Broadcast Talent[edit]
- Commentators:
Smile (Sergey Revin)- Eiritel (Dariya Morozova)
- CrystalMay (Dmitry Korchevinin)
- LighTofHeaveN (Dmitry Kupriyanov)
- Gromjkeee (German Gromov)
- EZH1K (Vladimir Georgievskiy)
- Commentators:
Ares (Lachlan Williams)
Robnroll (Robb Blakeman)
hairy_freak (Nikola Babic)
Prize Pool[edit]
$50,000 USD was spread among the teams as seen below:
| Place | $ USD | Team |
|---|---|---|
 1st
|
$20,000 |   Entity
|
 2nd
|
$10,000 |  Winstrike Team
|
 3rd
|
$7,000 |  Virtus.pro
|
 4th
|
$3,500 |  Gambit Esports
|
| 5th-6th | $2,500 |  No Monkey Business
|
 CHILLAX
| ||
| 7th-8th | $1,250 |  AS Monaco Gambit
|
  HYDRA
| ||
| 9th-12th | $500 |  Nemiga Gaming
|
 Team Empire
| ||
 cybercats
| ||
 No Sorry
| ||
| 13th | - |   YNT
|
| 14th-15th | - |   X3
|
 Mind Games
| ||
| 16th-17th | - |   B8
|
 Alliance
|
Participants[edit]
Playoffs Seeds[edit]
| 1 |  Crystallis |
|---|---|
| 2 |  Stormstormer |
| 3 |  Tobi |
| 4 | Kataomi` |
| 5 |  Fishman |
 | |
| Invited | |
| 1 | Daxak |
|---|---|
| 2 | Larl |
| 3 | Noticed |
| 4 | Forcemajor |
| 5 | SoNNeikO |
 | |
| Invited | |
Group Stage Seeds[edit]
| 1 | Smiling Knight |
|---|---|
| 2 |  mellojul |
| 3 | AfterLife |
| 4 | sayuw |
| 5 | Pantomem |
 | |
| Invited | |
- 1 Lilgun were replaced by No Monkey Business.[1]
- 2 Alliance withdrew on March 1st.[2]
- 3 B8 and Mind Games withdrew on March 16th.[3]
Group Stage[edit]
Group A[edit]
| Standings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | AS Monaco Gambit | 6-0 | 12-3 | |||
| 2. | HYDRA | 4-2 | 8-6 | |||
| 3. | Nemiga Gaming | 3-3 | 8-7 | |||
| 4. | No Sorry | 3-3 | 7-7 | |||
| 5. | YNT | 3-3 | 8-6 | |||
| 6. | X3 | 2-4 | 6-8 | |||
| 7. | B8 | 0-6 | 0-12 | |||
| 3rd-5th Place Tiebreaker | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3. | Nemiga Gaming
|
3-1 | ||||
| 4. | No Sorry
|
2-2 | ||||
| 5. | YNT
|
1-3 | ||||
| 2-0Mar 23 | 2-0Mar 24 | 2-1Mar 22 | 2-1Mar 25 | 2-1Mar 21 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-2Mar 23 | 2-1Mar 25 | 0-2Mar 22 | 2-1Feb 28 | 2-0Feb 22 | |
| 0-2Mar 24 | 1-2Mar 25 | 1-2Mar 23 | 2-0Feb 22 | 2-1Mar 22 | |
| 1-2Mar 22 | 2-0Mar 22 | 2-1Mar 23 | 0-2Feb 26 | 0-2Mar 25 | |
| 1-2Mar 25 | 1-2Feb 28 | 0-2Feb 22 | 2-0Feb 26 | 2-0Feb 27 | |
| 1-2Mar 21 | 0-2Feb 22 | 1-2Mar 22 | 2-0Mar 25 | 0-2Feb 27 | |
| | | | | |
Group B[edit]
| Standings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Gambit Esports | 5-0-1 | 11-2 | |||
| 2. | CHILLAX | 4-0-2 | 8-6 | |||
| 3. | Team Empire | 4-0-2 | 9-6 | |||
| 4. | No Monkey Business | 4-0-2 | 9-5 | |||
| 5. | cybercats | 3-0-3 | 8-6 | |||
| 6. | Alliance | 0-0-6 | 0-12 | |||
| 6. | Mind Games | 0-0-6 | 0-12 | |||
| 2nd-4th Place Tiebreaker | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2. | CHILLAX
|
2-0 | ||||
| 3. | Team Empire
|
1-1 | ||||
| 4. | No Monkey Business
|
0-2 | ||||
| 0-2Mar 24 | 2-1Feb 21 | 1-2Mar 1 | 2-1Feb 26 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-0Mar 24 | 1-2Feb 27 | 2-0Feb 21 | 2-0Mar 1 | |
| 1-2Feb 21 | 2-1Feb 27 | 2-0Feb 25 | 0-2Mar 24 | |
| 2-1Mar 1 | 0-2Feb 21 | 0-2Feb 25 | 2-1Feb 27 | |
| 1-2Feb 26 | 0-2Mar 1 | 2-0Mar 24 | 1-2Feb 27 | |
| | | | |
Alliance withdrew, all their matches are technical loss.[2]