ESL One Frankfurt 2014

[e][h]ESL One Frankfurt 2014

League Information

Series:

ESL One

Organizer:

ESL

Type:

Offline

Location:

Frankfurt

Venue:

Commerzbank-Arena

Dates:

Jun 28 - 29, 2014

Teams:

8

Format:

Online Qualifiers
Offline Playoffs

Prize Pool:

$210,900 USD

Dota TV Ticket:

$9.99 USD

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

ESL One New York 2014

Announcement image for the open qualifiers

Announcement image for the second stage qualifiers qualifiers

Overview[edit]

ESL One Frankfurt 2014 is the first ESL arranged tournament for Dota 2 in 2014. It will be held in the Commerzbank Arena, a football stadium with a capacity of more than 52.000, in June of 2014. Two of the eight teams at the main event will be invited while the rest must qualify through region based tournaments.

Format[edit]

Europe and Americas Qualifiers

Qualifiers Format
Stage 1 - Open Bracket One qualifier per region; Europe and Americas. Open bracket with an unlimited amount of teams. 4 teams from each region qualify for Stage 2. Stage 2 - Main Qualifier Divided into regions; Europe and Americas. Europe 16 team tournament 12 seeded pro-teams 4 teams from Stage 1 qualifier Top 3 teams qualifies for LAN finals Americas 8 team tournament 4 seeded pro-teams 4 teams from Stage 1 qualifier Winning team qualifies for LAN finals Chinese Qualifiers ^[1] 8 invited teams play single elimination best of 3 The final two teams play a Best of 5 grand final Winning team qualifies for LAN finals A 3rd place match will take place 2nd and 3rd place in the Chinese qualifier qualify for the Asia Qualifiers Asia Qualifiers ^[2] Stage 1 - Open Bracket Two teams from each region qualify for Stage 2, with the exception of Japan and Rest of Asia getting one spot each. One qualifier per each region; Malaysia Singapore Philippines Vietnam Indonesia Thailand South Korea Japan Rest of Asia Stage 2 - Main Qualifier SEA Battle Royale The 16 teams from open qualifiers are put into a group stage. Surviving Teams are put into a Single-elimination tournament. The resulting top 2 teams move to the Asia Finals Stage 3 - Asia Finals Single Elimination 2nd and 3rd place Chinese teams from the Chinese qualifiers 4 Seeded Asia teams (Arrow, Titan, Scythe, MVP.Phoenix) 2 top teams from the Battle Royale Winning team will qualify for the main event.

Main Event

Two invited teams.
One qualified team from China.
One qualified team from either China or SEA.
Three qualified teams from Europe.
One qualified team from America.

Broadcast Talent[edit]

Hosts:
- ReDeYe (Paul Chaloner)
- Soe (Soe Gschwind Penski)

Analysts:
- Bruno (Bruno Carlucci)
- 7ckngmad (Sébastien Debs)

Commentators:
- TobiWan (Toby Dawson)
- syndereN (Troels Lyngholt Nielsen)
- Merlini (Ben Wu)
- Capitalist (Austin Walsh)

Prize Pool[edit]

The base prize pool for this tournament is $150,000 USD.
Fans will be able to further contribute to the prize pool by purchasing in-game items.
The prize pool was $210,900 USD, as of July 1st, 2014.

Place	$ USD	Percent	Team
1st	$84,360	40%	Invictus Gaming
2nd	$42,180	20%	Evil Geniuses
3rd-4th	$21,090	10%	Alliance
3rd-4th	$21,090	10%	Fnatic
5th-8th	$10,545	5%	Cloud9
			mousesports
			Vici Gaming
			Natus Vincere

Timeline[edit]

2014-02-25: Tournament is announced.^[3]
2014-03-20: Alliance and Natus Vincere are confirmed as the 2 invited teams.^[4]
2014-04-28: Team Dog is the first European team to qualify, they were later picked up by mousesports.