ESL One Frankfurt 2015
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ESL One Frankfurt 2015
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Type:
Offline
Venue:
Commerzbank-Arena
Format:
Online Qualifiers
Offline Playoffs
Offline Playoffs
Prize Pool:
$296,203 USD
Start Date:
2015-06-18
End Date:
2015-06-21
Game:
Teams:
8
Dota TV Ticket:
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Overview[edit]
ESL One Frankfurt 2015 is the first ESL arranged tournament for Dota 2 in 2015. It will be held in the Commerzbank Arena, a football stadium with a capacity of more than 52,000, in June of 2015. Three of the eight teams at the main event will be invited while the rest must qualify through region based tournaments.
Format[edit]
- Qualifiers
Qualifiers Format |
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- Main Event
- Eight teams in a single-elimination bracket.
- Three invited teams
- One team from the Chinese Qualifier
- One team from the SEA Southeast Asian Qualifier
- Three teams from the European European Qualifier
- Based on their seedings, the top 3 teams will choose their opponent.
- Quarterfinals and Semifinals are played in a best of three.
- Final is played in a best of five.
Broadcast Talent[edit]
- Commentators:
- Blitz (William Lee)
- Capitalist (Austin Walsh)
- syndereN (Troels Lyngholt Nielsen)
- TobiWan (Toby Dawson)
Prize Pool[edit]
The base prize pool for this tournament is $250,000, which can be increased by crowdfunding:
- For every ticket purchased, an additional 25% of the purchase is added to the base prize pool.
- For every treasures (treasure #1, treasure #2) and Invoker set purchased, 10% is added to the prize pool.
As of June 21th, 2015, the total prize pool is $296,203.[3]
Participating Teams[edit]
- (1) ASUS.Polar were rebranded as Virtus.pro on April 15.[7]
- (2) Team Malaysia were acquired by Fnatic on June 4.[8]
Results[edit]
Quarterfinal (Bo3)
Semifinal (Bo3)
Finals (Bo5)
External Links[edit]
Coverage[edit]
Interviews[edit]
- [GosuGamers] EternalEnVy: Secret will win this if they don’t lose to us
- [GosuGamers] ESL One interview with 7fckngmad about Alliance's struggles
- [GosuGamers] Interview with VP.God @ ESL One Frankfurt 2015
- [GosuGamers] Interview with Ohaiyo after Fnatic's loss at ESL One
- [GosuGamers] v1lat voices out on Dota 2 Majors and ESL One
- [joinDOTA] Admiral Bulldog "I think that rat dota makes really good games"
- [joinDOTA] KecikImba: "Mushi taught me to be a more professional gamer"
- [joinDOTA] BigDaddy: Formats should aim to get "the best finals possible" to mimic TI3
- [joinDOTA] Akke: "Having all the pressure on one tournament is not good"
- [ReveevTV] Admiral Bulldog interview by @IneskaUA
- [ReveevTV] @NahazDota interview with by @IneskaUA
- [ReveevTV] @QuantumPope (Cloud9 Manager) interview by @IneskaUA
References[edit]
- ↑ ProxyPL (March 6, 2015). "Main qualifier invites and new format for ESL One Frankfurt". joinDOTA. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ Malystryx.GDS (March 24, 2015). "Main SEA qualifier invite list for ESL One Frankfurt, 12 teams and single-elim". joinDOTA. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
- ↑ ESL One Frankfurt 2015 prize pool tracker
- ↑ ESL (February 18, 2015). "Team Secret heading to ESL One Frankfurt 2015". Esl-one.com. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
- ↑ ESL (March 6, 2015). "Evil Geniuses join the fray for ESL One Frankfurt 2015". Esl-one.com. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ↑ ESL (March 20, 2015). "Current ESL One champions Vici Gaming look to defend their title at ESL One Frankfurt 2015". Esl-one.com. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
- ↑ Андрей «FUki» Кирюкин (April 15, 2015). "Virtus.pro представляют состав по Dota 2 [Virtus.pro represent the composition of the Dota 2 (Google)]" (in Russian ). Virtus.pro. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ↑ Jake «BL00DLocK» McNamara (June 4, 2015). "Fnatic acquires Team Malaysia". Gosu Gamers. Retrieved June 4, 2015.