DreamLeague Season 23
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DreamLeague Season 23
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Server:
Europe West
Type:
Online
Location:
EuropeFormat:
Round-robin group stage
Double-elimination playoffs
Double-elimination playoffs
Prize Pool:
$1,000,000 USD
Start Date:
2024-05-20
End Date:
2024-05-26
Game:
Teams:
12
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Chronology
DreamLeague Season 23 was the 23rd season of DreamLeague and the final tournament of the second season of ESL Pro Tour. It was the final chance for teams to obtain EPT points to qualify directly for Riyadh Masters 2024, with several teams in contention, as well as OG, in the top 8 but having not qualified for the tournament.
Valve released 7.36 during the tournament, just before the Playoffs, adding a level of complexity to the tournament. This patch, dubbed "8.00" by the community, featured Innate Abilities and Facets, upending teams' understanding of the heroes, with many of them now having at least two viable ways to play the hero.
The tournament was won by Team Falcons, beating Gaimin Gladiators 3-0, extending their ESL Pro Tour Season 2 tournament win streak. Both teams played 27 unique heroes in the Grand Finals combined, reflecting the uncertainty about the patch. The tournament results also saw Tundra Esports and Team Spirit secure direct invites to Riyadh Masters 2024, as well as OG retaining theirs, as no other team was able to overtake them.
Falcons are so good. Every time I think to myself, maybe this team has slowed down a little bit, maybe other teams have their number at this point of the patch or the start of the patch — no. They just needed a day. They got 2-0 by Gaimin Gladiators yesterday — they took that personally, they made their preparations today, and they brought it. Every single player on Falcons today played exceptionally.
Format[edit]
- Participants
- Four teams from EPT Leaderboard
- Eight teams from regional qualifiers
- Group Stage - May 20 - May 22, 2024
- Two single round-robin groups of six teams each
- All series consist of two games
- Top two teams from each group advance to the upper bracket of playoffs
- 3rd and 4th place teams from each group advance to the lower bracket of playoffs
- Remaining teams are eliminated
- Click here for Group Stage tiebreaker rules
- If the tie is over a position of significance;
- Two teams - a Bo3 will be played
- Three teams or more - a Bo1 round-robin will be played
- If the tiebreaker does not resolve following the first round of the round robin
- Three teams - the tiebreaker will be replayed
- Four teams or more - the matrix listed below will be used to resolve the tie, adding the information from the tiebreaker matches to those gathered during the group stage
- If the tiebreaker does not resolve following the first round of the round robin
- For ties that are not over positions of significance (in order of importance):
- Neustadtl score
- Head-to-head record between the tied participants taking only game score into account
- Record vs the first team below the tied teams, continuing to each subsequent team below the tied teams til the tie is resolved
- 1v1 tiebreakers
- Playoffs - May 23 - May 26, 2024
- Double-elimination bracket
- All matches except Grand Final are Bo3
- Grand Final is Bo5
Prize Pool[edit]
$1,000,000 USD and 26,100 EPT Points are spread among the participants as seen below:
Participants[edit]
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Group Stage[edit]
Group A[edit]
| Standings | ||||||
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| 1. |  Gaimin Gladiators | 3-2-0 | 8-2 | |||
| 2. |  Xtreme Gaming | 3-1-1 | 7-3 | |||
| 3. |  Aurora Gaming | 1-3-1 | 5-5 | |||
| 4. |  HEROIC | 1-2-2 | 4-6 | |||
| 5. |   Team Liquid | 1-2-2 | 4-6 | |||
| 6. |   PSG Quest | 0-2-3 | 2-8 | |||
| 2-0May 20 | 2-0May 22 | 1-1May 21 | 0-2May 20 | 2-0May 21 | |
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| 0-2May 20 | 1-1May 21 | 2-0May 20 | 1-1May 22 | 1-1May 21 | |
| 0-2May 22 | 1-1May 21 | 0-2May 20 | 1-1May 21 | 2-0May 20 | |
| 1-1May 21 | 0-2May 20 | 2-0May 20 | 0-2May 21 | 1-1May 22 | |
| 2-0May 20 | 1-1May 22 | 1-1May 21 | 2-0May 21 | 2-0May 20 | |
| 0-2May 21 | 1-1May 21 | 0-2May 20 | 1-1May 22 | 0-2May 20 | |
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Group B[edit]
| Standings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Team Falcons | 4-1-0 | 9-1 | |||
| 2. |   Tundra Esports | 3-1-1 | 7-3 | |||
| 3. |  Azure Ray | 1-2-2 | 4-6 | |||
| 4. |  BetBoom Team | 2-0-3 | 4-6 | |||
| 5. |   Shopify Rebellion | 0-3-2 | 3-7 | |||
| 6. |   Natus Vincere | 1-1-3 | 3-7 | |||
| 2-0May 20 | 2-0May 22 | 2-0May 21 | 2-0May 20 | 1-1May 21 | |
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| 0-2May 20 | 0-2May 21 | 2-0May 20 | 1-1May 22 | 1-1May 21 | |
| 0-2May 22 | 2-0May 21 | 0-2May 20 | 0-2May 21 | 1-1May 20 | |
| 0-2May 21 | 0-2May 20 | 2-0May 20 | 0-2May 21 | 2-0May 22 | |
| 0-2May 20 | 1-1May 22 | 2-0May 21 | 2-0May 21 | 2-0May 20 | |
| 1-1May 21 | 1-1May 21 | 1-1May 20 | 0-2May 22 | 0-2May 20 | |
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Matches[edit]
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[edit]May 20-A 0 2 0 2 May 20, 2024 - 11:55 CEST      28m38s           16m40s    
      2 0 2 0 2 0 May 20, 2024 - 17:55 CEST   40m30s      30m00s  
[edit]May 20-B 0 2 0 2 1 1 1 1 May 20, 2024 - 20:25 CEST     37m18s      33m43s
[edit]May 21-A 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 May 21, 2024 - 17:15 CEST   32m06s    39m07s 
[edit]May 21-B 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 May 21, 2024 - 19:45 CEST    40m41s   25m45s 
[edit]May 22-A 0 2 Tiebreaker [edit]May 22-B 2 0 |
Playoffs[edit]
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Upper Bracket Semifinals Upper Bracket Semifinals UB Semifinals UBSF Upper Bracket Final Upper Bracket Final UB Final UBF Grand Final Grand Final Final GF Lower Bracket Round 1 Lower Bracket Round 1 LB Round 1 LBR1 Lower Bracket Quarterfinals Lower Bracket Quarterfinals LB Quarterfinals LBQF Lower Bracket Semifinal Lower Bracket Semifinal LB Semifinal LBSF Lower Bracket Final Lower Bracket Final LB Final LBF |
Event[edit]
DreamLeague Season 23 was the 23rd season of DreamLeague and the final tournament of the second season of ESL Pro Tour, and thus the final chance for teams to obtain EPT points to qualify directly for Riyadh Masters 2024. Team Spirit, Tundra Esports, HEROIC, Shopify Rebellion, Aurora, Azure Ray, PSG Quest and Natus Vincere all could potentially qualify (in increasing order of difficulty), as well as OG, who had not qualified for the tournament, but were in the top 8, having participated in ESL One Birmingham 2024 in controversial fashion. Team Spirit and Tundra Esports had relatively-simple requirements to secure themselves a top 8 spot in the ESL Pro Tour rankings, with the others likely needing top 3 at a bare minimum, and only Azure Ray having looked like they could do this at any tournament this season (having finished third at Elite League Season 1).[5]
Valve released 7.36 during the tournament, just before the Playoffs, adding a level of complexity to the tournament. This patch, dubbed "8.00" by the community, featured Innate Abilities and Facets, upending teams' understanding of the heroes, with many of them now having at least two viable ways to play the hero.
During the Playoffs, an ISP outage in Romania forced Aurora and HEROIC, bootcamping in Romania, to forfeit their series.[6] With both teams trying to secure a spot in the top 8 of the EPT rankings, this ended their hopes. This ensured that the only final EPT permutation was that if Azure Ray won the tournament, they would overtake and drop Team Spirit from the top 8; this also did not come to pass, as Xtreme Gaming beat them 2-1 in the Lower Bracket Quarter Final.
The tournament was won by Team Falcons, beating Gaimin Gladiators 3-0, extending their ESL Pro Tour Season 2 tournament win streak. Both teams played 27 unique heroes in the Grand Finals combined, reflecting the uncertainty about the patch. Despite Team Falcons' dominance over the season, however, Gaimin Gladiators won Riyadh Masters 2024, and Team Spirit won The International 2024.
Additional Content[edit]
Broadcast[edit]
Streams[edit]
- For community streaming guidelines; click here.
Talent[edit]
The English broadcast talent was announced on May 9 and May 17, 2024.[7][8]
(Studio)
(Remote)
- Casters:
Gunnar (Nicolas Lopez)
Handsken (Simon Rasmus Haag)
johnxfire (John Nathan Fernandez)- Mathmagician10 (Conner Chapman)
MLPDotA (Mike Le Phoenix)
Nomad (Jared Bajina)- SeekNStrike (Richie Garcia)
Stormstormer (Daniel Schoetzau)
WinteR (Chan Litt Binn)
- Host:
Aigera (Aigerim Dunamis)
- Commentators/Analysts:
- BLACKARXANGEL (Vladislav Ivachshenko)
CrystalMay (Dmitry Korchevinin)- Eiritel (Dariya Morozova)
- Heassh (Dmitriy Chernish)
- KawaiiSocks (Temirlan Tattybekov)
- LanigirO (Alexander Potapov)
- Maelstorm (Vladimir Kuzminov)
- mash1nkaaa (Maria Ganelina)
- Mortalles (Dmitry Arzhylovsky)
- PIVOVAR (Vladislav Pivovar)
- STARBOY (Maxim Fomin)
- Observers:
- Charmed (Danil Litvinov)
- moonrock (Vladislav Lukomskiy)
- tsukuyom1q (Anzor Kremer)
- WinG2Kana (Kanat Ubigaliyev)
Okko
The Okko broadcast talent was announced on May 18, 2024.[9]
The Spanish talent broadcast was announced on May 18, 2024.[10]
- Host:
Lobockz (Luis Guerrero Pajares)
- Analysts:
- D1smar (José Dismar Carhuajulca Levano)
- FalcoStyle (Huester Esley Alejandro Valenzuela Davila)
- Mr.Jeans (Jean Franco Natividad Toribio)
- NaoG (Eduardo David Valencia Sánchez)
- RedMonster (Jhon Albert Mamani Condori)
- TaO (Darsee Esteban Egoavil)
- Commentators:
- Cutipo (Frank Williams Galán Cutipa)
- DKgamer (David Nina Sulca)
Dorayaki (Jhonatan Esteban López Quinga)
Giulio (Edgar Julio Nuñez Murillo)- Judro (Edgar Rodrigo Morales Sotelo)
- Lucky (Kevin Nahyr Muñoz Carbajal)
- Maverick (Aarón Isai Galvez Tapayuri)
- Mr.Choco (Rikardo Mendoza Mattos)
StudyCaster (Cristopher Carlos Fuentes)- Tio Inka (Paul Richard de la Cruz Gomez)
- Vadare (Cristhian Andrade Azpur)
- YoloSergio (Sergio André Pérez Chávez)
- Commentators:
Ayala (Matheus Ayala Batista)- baLones (Felipe Augusto Rodrigues dos Santos)
- Ehvy (Jennifer Marinho)
- FerroValita (Lucas Aquino)
- Friizon (Lucas Chagas)
- Ghean (Ghean Carlos)
- Jasam (José Victor Almeida dos Santos)
- Kaxanga (Pablo Oliveira Franco Menin)
- Mun (Mauricio Mendonça)
- Patty (Patrícia Cristina Alves Souza)
- PoochPop (Dionathan do Amaral Leal)
- Puba (Fernando Emmanuell Soares de Oliveira)
- Sherlock (Alisson Maximo Dobosz)
- Tay (Taynara Sousa)
- Warss (Renan Moura da Costa)
- Commentators:
BromKet (Mykola Krombet)- FlunkyFlame (Dmitro Meshkov)
GodHunt (Viktor Volkov)- Petrovich (Roman Zhuravel)
Other VODs[edit]
Miscellaneous[edit]
- [e] 2024-05-26 |
DreamLeague S23 final three: Can BetBoom or Falcons clip Gaimin Gladiators title chase? by BLAST.tv at DreamLeague Season 23 - [e] 2024-05-19 | DreamLeague Season 23: Favourites and Underdogs to watch by BLAST.tv at DreamLeague Season 23
- [e] 2024-05-17 | DreamLeague Season 23: Dota 2’s elite lock horns for $1,000,000 by BLAST.tv at DreamLeague Season 23
- [e] 2024-05-25 | DreamLeague S23 Playoffs Day 2: ISP outage eliminates Aurora and HEROIC by BLAST.tv at DreamLeague Season 23
- [e] 2024-05-24 | DreamLeague Season 23 Playoffs: Madness ensues with new Dota 2 patch 7.36 by BLAST.tv at DreamLeague Season 23
- [e] 2024-05-23 | After brutal conclusion: DreamLeague Season 23 Playoffs are set by BLAST.tv at DreamLeague Season 23
- [e] 2024-05-22 | The race for Playoffs heats up: DreamLeague Season 23 Group Stage Day 2 by BLAST.tv at DreamLeague Season 23
- [e] 2024-05-21 | Falcons Soar, Gaimin Gladiators Roar: DreamLeague Season 23 Group Stage Day 1 by BLAST.tv at DreamLeague Season 23
- [e] 2024-04-09 | Dreamleague S23 Bootcamp DOTA 2 VLOG: lorenof first time in Malaysia by Aurora at DreamLeague Season 23
Statistics Overview[edit]
Hero Stats[edit]
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| 1 |  Hoodwink | 37 | 19 | 18 | 51.35% | 42.53% | 15 | 5 | 10 | 33.33% | 22 | 14 | 8 | 63.64% | 13 | 14.94% | 50 | 57.47% |  Hoodwink Detailed Statistics
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| 2 |  Slardar | 28 | 18 | 10 | 64.29% | 32.18% | 14 | 8 | 6 | 57.14% | 14 | 10 | 4 | 71.43% | 52 | 59.77% | 80 | 91.95% |  Slardar Detailed Statistics
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| 3 |  Centaur Warrunner | 27 | 12 | 15 | 44.44% | 31.03% | 16 | 9 | 7 | 56.25% | 11 | 3 | 8 | 27.27% | 27 | 31.03% | 54 | 62.07% |  Centaur Warrunner Detailed Statistics
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| 4 |  Timbersaw | 25 | 16 | 9 | 64.00% | 28.74% | 14 | 7 | 7 | 50.00% | 11 | 9 | 2 | 81.82% | 26 | 29.89% | 51 | 58.62% |  Timbersaw Detailed Statistics
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| 5 |  Razor | 23 | 7 | 16 | 30.43% | 26.44% | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50.00% | 15 | 3 | 12 | 20.00% | 30 | 34.48% | 53 | 60.92% |  Razor Detailed Statistics
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| 87 games played | 40W - 47L (45.98%) | 47W - 40L (54.02%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country Representation[edit]
| # | Country / Region | Representation | Players |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  China | 10 / 60 (17%) | Ame, Dy, Faith_bian, fy, Lou, Ori, XinQ, Xm, Xxs, 天命 |
| 1 | Russia | 10 / 60 (17%) | 9Class, Dukalis, dyrachyo, gpk, Malr1ne, MieRo`, Nightfall, Pure~, RAMZES666, TORONTOTOKYO |
| 3 | Kazakhstan | 3 / 60 (5%) | Malady, Malik, TA2000 |
| 3 | Sweden | 3 / 60 (5%) | Boxi, Insania, miCKe |
| 3 |  Thailand | 3 / 60 (5%) | 23, Jabz, Q |
| 3 | Ukraine | 3 / 60 (5%) | lorenof, nefrit, Yuragi |
| 3 | United States | 3 / 60 (5%) | Kitrak, Quinn, Sneyking |
| 8 | Brazil | 2 / 60 (3%) | 4nalog, KJ |
| 8 |  Denmark | 2 / 60 (3%) | Ace, Cr1t- |
| 8 |  Lebanon | 2 / 60 (3%) | No!ob, OmaR |
| 8 | Peru | 2 / 60 (3%) | K1, Scofield |
| 8 | Philippines | 2 / 60 (3%) | skem, Yopaj- |
| 13 |  Belgium | 1 / 60 (2%) | Davai Lama |
| 13 |  Canada | 1 / 60 (2%) | Arteezy |
| 13 |  Czechia | 1 / 60 (2%) | SabeRLight- |
| 13 |  Finland | 1 / 60 (2%) | Topson |
| 13 | Germany | 1 / 60 (2%) | tOfu |
| 13 |  Indonesia | 1 / 60 (2%) | Whitemon |
| 13 |  Israel | 1 / 60 (2%) | 33 |
| 13 |  Jordan | 1 / 60 (2%) | ATF |
| 13 |  Kyrgyzstan | 1 / 60 (2%) | Zayac |
| 13 | Malaysia | 1 / 60 (2%) | Oli |
| 13 |  Moldova | 1 / 60 (2%) | Save- |
| 13 |  Mongolia | 1 / 60 (2%) | sanctity- |
| 13 |  Netherlands | 1 / 60 (2%) | Seleri |
| 13 |  Poland | 1 / 60 (2%) | Nisha |
| 13 |  Slovakia | 1 / 60 (2%) | skiter |
References[edit]
- ↑ ESL (2024-05-26). "Ephey on Team Falcons".
- ↑ Tundra Esports (2024-05-14). "Welcome @ramzes standing in for DreamLeague S23.".
- ↑ Shopify Rebellion (2024-05-13). "Welcome to the fold @skemdota2".
- ↑ ESL Dota2 (2024-05-24). "Aurora has forfeited Game 3 of their series against BetBoom Team due to a Technical Issue with their local ISP.".
- ↑ noxville (2024-04-28). "DreamLeague S23 Final Invites Permutations".
- ↑ Sarah Zulkiflee (2024-05-24). "DreamLeague S23: Multiple teams are forced to forfeit due to Romania internet issues".
- ↑ ESL Dota2 (2024-05-09). "DreamLeague Season 23 starts soon, and we've got some amazing talent to go with it!".
- ↑ ESL Dota2 (2024-05-17). "We've also got some superb Remote Talent for #DreamLeague Season 23!".
- ↑ Okko (2024-05-18). "Представляем Талантов, кто будет работать специально для вас на наших трансляциях. [Introducing the talents who will work on our broadcast.]" (in Russian).
- ↑ ESB_Dota2 (2024-05-18). "Prepárate para vivir la intensidad de la Dreamleague 23 como nunca antes".
Observers: