Excellent Moscow Cup Season 2

[e][h]Excellent Moscow Cup 2

League Information

Series:

Excellent Moscow Cup

Sponsor:

Comedy Club Production
Team Empire
Dota2.Ru
ForumHall

Type:

Online & Offline

Location:

Moscow

Teams:

4

Prize Pool:

$75,575 USD

Start Date:

2014-08-26

End Date:

2014-10-29

Dota TV Ticket:

$5.99 USD

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

Overview[edit]

The Eastern European Dota 2 scene will be busy with tough clashes, this time with teams battling for $60,000 in Excellent Moscow Cup 2. 12 top teams from Europe alongside 4 from China will compete to get their spot in LAN finals that will be held in Forum Hall, Moscow.

Format[edit]

Every team in the Europe division plays each other twice in a round-robin format.
A 2-0 result is worth 3 points, 1-1 is worth one point.
Top 3 European teams and the top Chinese team qualify for LAN finals.
In case of a two-way tie, the team winning the game between those teams in question advances.
In case of a tie involving more than 2 teams, additional games are played to determine rankings.

Prize Pool[edit]

The base prize pool is $60,000. In addition, 25% of every purchase of the in-game bundle will go to the prize pool.
As of October 17, 2014, the prize pool was $75,575.

Place	$ USD	Team
1st	$37,788	Team Empire
2nd	$18,894	Natus Vincere
3rd	$11,336	Virtus.pro Polar
4th	$7,558	HellRaisers

Participating Teams[edit]

Europe
Power Rangers	Moscow Five	Team Empire	compLexity Gaming¹
Meet Your Makers	Virtus.pro Polar³	Na`Vi North America²	HellRaisers
Denial eSports	Natus Vincere	Fnatic.EU	Team Coast

China
TongFu	Newbee	LGD Gaming	HyperGloryTeam

¹ Virtus.pro cancelled their participation. They were replaced by compLexity Gaming.^[1]
² Team Tinker cancelled their participation. They were replaced by Na`Vi.US.^[2]
³ NVMI were picked up as virtus.pro polar midway through the tournament ^[3]

Qualified for LAN Finals[edit]

Team Empire

1	Silent
2	Resolut1on
3	yoky-
4	Solo
5	ALWAYSWANNAFLY


Western Qualifier

Virtus.pro Polar

1	Illidan
2	Scandal
3	DkPhobos
4	Goblak
5	Lil


Western Qualifier

Natus Vincere

1	XBOCT
2	Dendi
3	funn1k
4	fng
5	VANSKOR


Western Qualifier

HellRaisers^{1, 2, 3}

1	ArtStyle
2	yoky-
3	Dread
4	dubas
5	immune


Chinese Qualifier

¹ On September 16th, Newbee confirmed that they wouldn't be able to participate in the LAN final since some of their players lost their passports.^[4]
² On September 25th, LGD announced that they would not be attending due to an illness in a player's family.^[5]
³ HellRaisers played with a standin during the LAN finals.

Results[edit]

Online[edit]

Europe Group Stage[edit]

Group Stage
1.	Natus Vincere	9-2-0	20-2	29
2.	Virtus.pro Polar	8-3-0	18-3	27^*
3.	Team Empire	7-2-2	16-6	23
4.	Fnatic.EU	4-6-1	14-8	16
5.	HellRaisers	5-1-5	11-11	16
6.	Meet Your Makers	6-0-5	12-10	16
7.	Denial eSports	5-1-5	11-11	16
8.	Moscow Five	3-3-5	9-13	12
9.	Power Rangers	2-4-5	8-14	10
10.	compLexity Gaming	1-6-4	8-14	9
11.	Team Coast	1-3-7	10-12	6
12.	Na`Vi North America	0-0-11	0-22	0^*

VP.Polar acquired NVMI part of the way through the tournament.
Na'Vi US dropped out of the event, awarding default wins to all opponents.^[6]
After LGD dropped out only a day before the event, the organizers invited HellRaisers.

Cross Table[edit]


	1-1 2014-09-17	2-0 2014-09-19	1-1 2014-08-29	2-0 2014-09-19	2-0 2014-09-16	2-0 2014-09-20	2-0	2-0 2014-09-01	2-0 2014-09-17	2-0 2014-09-16	2-0 2014-08-26
1-1 2014-09-17		1-1 2014-09-08	2-0 2014-09-03	2-0 2014-09-08	2-0 2014-09-19	2-0 2014-09-17	2-0	2-0 2014-09-04	2-0 2014-09-20	1-1 2014-09-05	2-0 2014-09-04
0-2 2014-09-19	1-1 2014-09-08		1-1 2014-09-05	1-1 2014-09-07	2-0 2014-09-14	1-1 2014-09-18	2-0	1-1 2014-09-20	1-1 2014-09-10	2-0 2014-09-01	1-1 2014-09-14
1-1 2014-08-29	0-2 2014-09-03	1-1 2014-09-05		0-2 2014-09-06	0-2 2014-09-16	0-2 2014-09-19	2-0 2014-09-07	0-2 2014-09-16	1-1 2014-09-14	0-2 2014-09-06	0-2 2014-09-02
0-2 2014-09-19	0-2 2014-09-08	1-1 2014-09-07	2-0 2014-09-06		2-0 2014-09-17	2-0 2014-09-17	2-0	2-0 2014-09-15	2-0 2014-09-09	2-0 2014-09-15	1-1 2014-09-09
0-2 2014-09-16	0-2 2014-09-19	0-2 2014-09-14	2-0 2014-09-16	0-2 2014-09-17		2-0 2014-09-15	2-0	0-2 2014-09-17	1-1 2014-09-14	2-0 2014-09-15	2-0
0-2 2014-09-20	0-2 2014-09-17	1-1 2014-09-18	2-0 2014-09-19	0-2 2014-09-17	0-2 2014-09-15		2-0	1-1 2014-09-20	2-0 2014-09-10	1-1 2014-09-16	2-0
0-2	0-2	0-2	0-2 2014-09-07	0-2	0-2	0-2		0-2 2014-09-06	0-2	0-2	0-2
0-2 2014-09-01	0-2 2014-09-04	1-1 2014-09-20	2-0 2014-09-16	0-2 2014-09-15	2-0 2014-09-17	1-1 2014-09-20	2-0 2014-09-06		1-1 2014-09-08	2-0 2014-09-01	1-1 2014-09-10
0-2 2014-09-17	0-2 2014-09-20	1-1 2014-09-10	1-1 2014-09-14	0-2 2014-09-09	1-1 2014-09-14	0-2 2014-09-10	2-0	1-1 2014-09-08		1-1 2014-09-09	1-1 2014-09-07
0-2 2014-09-16	1-1 2014-09-05	0-2 2014-09-01	2-0 2014-09-06	0-2 2014-09-15	0-2 2014-09-15	1-1 2014-09-16	2-0	0-2 2014-09-01	1-1 2014-09-09		2-0 2014-09-05
0-2 2014-08-26	0-2 2014-09-04	1-1 2014-09-14	2-0 2014-09-02	1-1 2014-09-09	0-2	0-2	2-0	1-1 2014-09-10	1-1 2014-09-07	0-2 2014-09-05

Game 2 of VP.Polar vs PR was postponed due to server issues and eventually PR got a defloss.
Na`Vi.US did not show up for their match against MYM. Team Coast did not show up for their match against MYM.