ESL One Frankfurt 2014
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ESL One Frankfurt 2014
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Type:
Offline
Location:
Frankfurt Venue:
Commerzbank-Arena
Dates:
Jun 28 - 29, 2014
Teams:
8
Format:
Online Qualifiers
Offline Playoffs
Offline Playoffs
Prize Pool:
$210,900 USD
Dota TV Ticket:
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
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 |
|---|
|
- 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]
- 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
|
 Fnatic
| |||
| 5th-8th | $10,545 | 5% |  Cloud9
|
 mousesports
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 Vici Gaming
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 Natus Vincere
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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.
Participating Teams[edit]
- 1 Team Dog were signed by mousesports on May 13.[5]
- 2 Fnatic used Excalibur as a stand-in for Era.[6]
Results[edit]
Quarterfinals
mousesports1
Invictus Gaming2
Semifinals
Grand Final
Invictus Gaming2
June 29, 2014 20:30 CEST
47m15s
26m20s
29m00s
Due to scheduling issues the Finals match was changed from a Bo5 to a Bo3.[7]
Evil Geniuses1
External Links[edit]
- ESL One Frankfurt 2014 Dota 2 Prize Pool Tracker
- Official ESL photo album of the main event
- ESL One Frankfurt Finals 2014 statistics on datDota.com
References[edit]
- ↑ Chinese Qualifiers Announced
- ↑ Asian Qualifiers Announced
- ↑ ESL announces ESL One, $150,000 Dota event June 28-29
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Alliance and Na`Vi invited to ESL One Frankfurt
- ↑ René "René" Lannte (May 13, 2014). "mousesports returns to Dota 2)". mousesports.com. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
- ↑ FNATIC (June 25, 2014). "FNATIC on Twitter:"Just to let you'll know @XcaliburYe will be attending ESL ONE with our Dota 2 team this weekend."". Twitter. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
- ↑ Kennigit's Reddit reply concerning the Finals format change reddit.com