EPICENTER Major 2019
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EPICENTER Major 2019
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
Type:
Offline
Location:
MoscowVenue:
Format:
Double Elimination
Prize Pool:
$1,000,000 USD
Start Date:
2019-06-22
End Date:
2019-06-30
Version:
Teams:
16
Pro Circuit Points:
15,000
Liquipedia Tier:
Pro Circuit Tier:
Links
Chronology
The last, but certainly not least, Major of the 2018/19 Dota Pro Circuit is the EPICENTER Major,[1] the fourth installment of the largest LAN tournament in Russia. From 22 to 30 June, 16 of the best teams in the world have one last chance to earn valuable DPC points to secure their qualification to The International 2019. The final days of the playoffs were once again held at the CSKA Arena, formerly known as the VTB Ice Palace.[2]
Format[edit]
- Qualifier[3]
- 14 Teams from the six regional qualifiers
- Two teams each from CIS, Southeast Asia, North, and South America
- Three teams each from Europe, and China.
- Two team qualifies as the winner and runner up of the StarLadder ImbaTV Minor S2
- Group Stage[4] - June 22nd - 23rd
- Sixteen teams are divided in four GSL groups of four teams each
- The top two teams advance to the upper bracket of the playoffs
- The bottom two teams advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs
- All games are Bo3
- Playoffs[4] - June 24th - 30th
- Sixteen teams play in a double-elimination format, with the final three days of the tournament were held in front of a live audience at the CSKA Arena
- Eight teams begin in the upper bracket, eight in the lower 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 broadcast was announced on June 20, 2019.[5]
- Analysts:
- Group Stage Casters: [7]
The talent for the Russian Broadcast was announced on June 20th, 2019.[8]
- Hosts:
- NotInMyHouse (Dmitry Krupnov)
- CrystalMay (Dmitry Korchevinin)
- Instamityay (Dmitry Serebrennikov)
- Analysts:
- NS (Yaroslav Kuznetsov)
- Smile (Sergey Revin)
- Inmate (Dmitry Filinov)
- LighTofHeaveN (Dmitry Kupriyanov)
XBOCT (Oleksandr Dashkevych)- ALOHADANCE (Ilya Korobkin)
- JotM (Egor Surkov)
- DkPhobos (Alexander Kucheria)
Sunlight (Kirill Kachinsky)
- Commentators:
- v1lat (Vitalii Volochai)
GodHunt (Viktor Volkov)- Maelstorm (Vladimir Kuzminov)
- CaspeRRR (Roman Lepokhin)
- Eiritel (Dariya Morozova)
- Mila (Mila Alieva)
- 4ce (Nikita Kotkov)
- Lex (Alexey Filippov)
- JAM (Alexander Korotkov)
- Adekvat (Rustam Mavliutov)
- Mortalles (Dmitry Arzhylovsky)
- Double D (Vladimir Vylegzhanin)
- DOTA BURGER (Alexander Burgerov)
- Commentators:
- violinUA (Andrii Yatsiuk)
- Telpecarne (Roman Shevchuk)
- TaiTake (Yevhen Pakholiuk)
Prize Pool[edit]
The prize pool for the tournament is $1,000,000 USD and 15,000 Pro Circuit points.
Participants[edit]
Group Stage[edit]
[edit]
Group A 
| ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |   Team Secret
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2-0 | 4-0 | |||
| 2. |  Royal Never Give Up
|
2-1 | 4-3 | |||
| 3. |  Fnatic
|
1-2 | 3-5 | |||
| 4. |   paiN Gaming
|
0-2 | 1-4 | |||
| Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Secret | 2 | 0 | paiN |
| Fnatic | 1 | 2 | RNG |
| Secret | 2 | 0 | RNG |
| paiN | 1 | 2 | Fnatic |
| RNG | 2 | 0 | Fnatic |
[edit]
| Group B
| ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |   Team Liquid
|
2-0 | 4-2 | |||
| 2. |  Gambit Esports
|
2-1 | 5-2 | |||
| 3. |   Evil Geniuses
|
1-2 | 3-4 | |||
| 4. |  Infamous
|
0-2 | 0-4 | |||
| Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| EG | 2 | 0 | INF |
| Liquid | 2 | 1 | Gambit |
| EG | 1 | 2 | Liquid |
| INF | 0 | 2 | Gambit |
| EG | 0 | 2 | Gambit |
[edit]
| Group C
| ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  Vici Gaming
|
2-0 | 4-1 | |||
| 2. |  Virtus.pro
|
2-1 | 4-2 | |||
| 3. |  Alliance
|
1-2 | 2-4 | |||
| 4. |  Forward Gaming
|
0-2 | 1-4 | |||
| Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VP | 0 | 2 | [A] |
| VG | 2 | 1 | FWD |
| [A] | 0 | 2 | VG |
| VP | 2 | 0 | FWD |
| [A] | 0 | 2 | VP |
Playoffs[edit]
Upper Bracket R1 (Bo3)
TNC Predator2
Royal Never Give Up1
Upper Bracket R2 (Bo3)
Upper Bracket Final (Bo3)
Lower Bracket R1 (Bo1)
Evil Geniuses0
OG1
Lower Bracket R2 (Bo3)
Team Secret0
June 26, 2019 - 12:10 CEST
27m02s
41m13s
OG2
Royal Never Give Up1
Alliance2
Gambit Esports2
Ninjas in Pyjamas0
Lower Bracket R3 (Bo3)
PSG.LGD2
OG0
Lower Bracket R4 (Bo3)
Lower Bracket R5 (Bo3)
Lower Bracket Final (Bo3)
Grand Final (Bo5)
Vici Gaming3
Team Liquid2
Additional Content[edit]
Streams[edit]
Interviews[edit]
- 2019-06-23 | Solo.VP: "People have learned to take responsibility" @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub (trans.
) - 2019-06-24 | w33.Liquid: "As if I came back home" @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub (trans. )
- 2019-06-25 | iceiceice.Fnatic: "Top 8 will not satisfy us" @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub (trans. )
- 2019-06-25 | CnCC.Forward: "Streaming is a good job." @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub (trans. )
- 2019-06-25 | Lelis.paiN Gaming: "Expectations just make it worse" @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub (trans. )
- 2019-06-25 | Ruhub Talents Predict EPICENTER Finalists by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-25 | English talents about EPICENTER Major by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-26 | iNSaNiA.Alliance: "We have already established where we could" @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub (trans. )
- 2019-06-26 | Fng.Gambit: "From the outside, we don't look like the top 16" @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub
- 2019-06-26 | 33.NiP: "With the last coach came a strange situation" @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub (trans. )
- 2019-06-27 | BuLba.EG "Wisp is not the one everyone is used to." @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub (trans. )
- 2019-06-27 | Fade.Vici Gaming: "Carry was the main cause of our defeat." @ EPICENTER Major by RuHub (trans. )
- 2019-06-28 | Afoninje.Gambit: "Beauty blogger from me would be great at all" @ EPICENTER Major Interview [RU] by RuHub
- 2019-06-28 | rOtk.Vici Gaming: "No matter what place we occupy" @ EPICENTER Major Interview [CN-RU] by RuHub
Miscellaneous[edit]
- 2019-03-18 | EPICENTER Major 2019: Teaser by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-17 | EPICENTER Major 2019 is coming by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-18 | EPICENTER Major: Meet the teams by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-25 | EPICENTER Major: Group Stage emotions by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-25 | EPICENTER Major: Playoffs Day 1 by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-25 | EPICENTER Major: Backstage by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-25 | EPICENTER Major: Playoffs Day 2 by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-26 | EPICENTER Major: Playoffs Day 3 by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-28 | EPICENTER Major: Intro [EN version] by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-28 | The first day of the Main Event is over! by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-29 | Predictions for the 2nd day of the EPICENTER Major Main Event! by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-29 | Topson.OG and Ana.OG: Play in Alias! @ EPICENTER Major [RU Sub] by RuHub
- 2019-06-29 | The 2nd day of EPICENTER Major Main Event by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-30 | Team Liquid walk out on stage by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-30 | Virtus.pro walk out on stage by EPICENTER
- 2019-06-30 | Vici Gaming before the Grand Final by EPICENTER
Additional Data[edit]
Statistics[edit]
| Picks | Radiant Side | Dire Side | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hero | ∑ | W | L | WR | %T | ∑ | W | L | WR | ∑ | W | L | WR | Details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 |  Grimstroke | 38 | 20 | 18 | 52.63% | 39.18% | 19 | 13 | 6 | 68.42% | 19 | 7 | 12 | 36.84% |  Grimstroke Detailed Statistics
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