Frankfurt Major 2015
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The Frankfurt Major 2015
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor:
Version:
Type:
Offline
Venue:
Festhalle Messe
Dates:
Nov 13 - 21, 2015
Teams:
16
Format:
Group Stage
GSL Format
Playoffs
Double-elimination
GSL Format
Playoffs
Double-elimination
Prize Pool:
$3,000,000 USD
Dota TV Ticket:
Free in Dota 2 Client
Liquipedia Tier:
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The Frankfurt Major (or "Fall Major") is the first event of Valve's Dota Major Championships, which will add 3 new publisher-sponsored tournaments each year in addition to The International. The Main Event took place at Festhalle Messe, a multi-purpose concert hall in Frankfurt, Germany with a total seating capacity of over 9,800; it featured the same Main Event format as The International 2015.[1]
Contents
Format[edit]
- Open Qualifiers - October 6th - October 10th, 2015
- Eight Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers, two brackets for each region.
- The winners of each Regional Qualifier will advance to the respective Main Qualifier.
- Eight Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers, two brackets for each region.
- Main Qualifiers - October 10th - October 14th, 2015
- Four Regional Qualifiers.
- Two groups of five teams, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the Regional Double-elimination Playoff Bracket.
- The winner and runner-up of each Regional Playoff Bracket will join the eight directly invited teams in Frankfurt.
- Four Regional Qualifiers.
- Group Stage - November 13th - November 14th, 2015
- Four groups of four teams.[2]
- Double-elimination format with matches played in a best-of-three.
- Top two teams in each group advance to the upper bracket of the Main Event.
- Bottom two teams in each group advance to the lower bracket of the Main Event.
- Four groups of four teams.[2]
- Main Event - November 16th - November 21st, 2015
- Teams are seeded into a double-elimination bracket after the Group Stage.
- Eight teams begin in the upper bracket, eight in the lower bracket.
- First lower bracket game is best of one, Grand Finals are best of five, all others are best of three.
- Teams are seeded into a double-elimination bracket after the Group Stage.
Broadcast Talent[edit]
- Host/Interviewers:
ReDeYe (Paul Chaloner)
KotLGuy (Dakota Cox)
PyrionFlax (Ted Forsyth)
- Commentators:
TobiWan (Toby Dawson)
Capitalist (Austin Walsh)
LD (David Gorman)
ODPixel (Owen Davies)
The talent for the Russian broadcast was announced on November 12, 2015.[3]
- Commentators:
Versuta (Aren Zurabyan)
Adekvat (Rustam Mavliutov)
CaspeRRR (Roman Lepokhin)
v1lat (Vitalii Volochai)
LighTofHeaveN (Dmitry Kupriyanov)
Maelstorm (Vladimir Kuzminov)
Faker (Ivan Demkin)
XBOCT (Oleksandr Dashkevych)
Smile (Sergey Revin)
NS (Yaroslav Kuznetsov)
Goblak (Artur Kostenko)
JOTM (Egor Surkov)
Prize Pool[edit]
$3,000,000 USD was spread among the teams as seen below:
Place | $ USD | Percent | Team |
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$1,110,000 | 37% | ![]() |
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$405,000 | 13.5% | ![]() |
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$315,000 | 10.5% | ![]() |
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$255,000 | 8.5% | ![]() |
5th-6th | $202,500 | 6.75% | ![]() |
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7th-8th | $105,000 | 3.5% | ![]() |
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9th-12th | $45,000 | 1.5% | ![]() |
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13th-16th | $30,000 | 1% | ![]() |
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Participants[edit]
Invited Teams[edit]
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Qualified Teams[edit]
- 1 (monkey) Business became OG on October 31, 2015.[4]
- 2 Invictus Gaming were forced to withdraw from the Major due to visa issues.[5] They were replaced by Newbee Young, the third place team from the Chinese qualifier.[6]
Results[edit]
Group Stage[edit]
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Group A ![]() | ||||||
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November 13, 2015 - 11:00 CET | ||||||
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2-0 | 4-2 | |||
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2-1 | 5-2 | |||
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1-2 | 2-4 | |||
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0-2 | 1-4 |
Group A Matches | |||
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EG ![]() | 2 | 1 | ![]() |
VP ![]() | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
VP ![]() | 1 | 2 | ![]() |
Newbee ![]() | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
VP ![]() | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
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Group B ![]() | ||||||
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November 13, 2015 - 11:00 CET | ||||||
1. | ![]() |
2-0 | 4-1 | |||
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2-1 | 5-4 | |||
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1-2 | 4-4 | |||
4. | ![]() |
0-2 | 0-4 |
Group B Matches | |||
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VG ![]() | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
Vega ![]() | 2 | 1 | ![]() |
VG ![]() | 2 | 1 | ![]() |
UNK ![]() | 0 | 2 | ![]() |
Vega ![]() | 2 | 1 | ![]() |
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Group C ![]() | ||||||
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November 14, 2015 - 11:00 CET | ||||||
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2-0 | 4-1 | |||
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2-1 | 4-3 | |||
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1-2 | 3-5 | |||
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0-2 | 2-4 |
Group C Matches | |||
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Secret ![]() | 2 | 1 | ![]() |
LGD ![]() | 2 | 1 | ![]() |
Secret ![]() | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
NB.Y ![]() | 1 | 2 | ![]() |
LGD ![]() | 2 | 0 | ![]() |
Main Event[edit]
Upper Bracket R1 (Bo3)

2

1
Upper Bracket R2 (Bo3)
Upper Bracket Final (Bo3)

1

2
Lower Bracket R1 (Bo1)
Lower Bracket R2 (Bo3)
Lower Bracket R3 (Bo3)
Lower Bracket R4 (Bo3)
Lower Bracket Final (Bo3)
Grand Final (Bo5)
Additional Data[edit]
Country Representation[edit]
# | Country / Region | Representation | Players |
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1 | ![]() | 28 / 80 (35%) | Agressif, Banana, BurNIng, Chisbug, Cty, Fenrir, Garder, Hao, JiaJia, Kaka, LaNm, Li, MMY!, Mrrr, Mu, Q, QAZ, Sccc, Shiki, Somnus丶M, Super, Sylar, Xz, eLeVeN, fy, old chicken, rOtK, zhi! |
2 | ![]() | 7 / 80 (9%) | Brax, Fear, MSS, Ritsu, SVG, Universe, ppd |
3 | ![]() | 6 / 80 (8%) | Bimbo, DJ, JessieVash, Julz, Kuku, ryOyr |
3 | ![]() | 6 / 80 (8%) | AdmiralBulldog, Akke, Loda, Mynuts, pieliedie, s4 |
5 | ![]() | 5 / 80 (6%) | Accel, Atun, Greedy, Mnz, Ztok |
5 | ![]() | 5 / 80 (6%) | CemaTheSlayer, DkPhobos, Lil, Mag, Noone |
7 | ![]() | 4 / 80 (5%) | 1437, Arteezy, EternaLEnVy, MoonMeander |
7 | ![]() | 4 / 80 (5%) | 9pasha, G, Illidan, Solo |
9 | ![]() | 3 / 80 (4%) | Cr1t-, MISERY, N0tail |
9 | ![]() | 3 / 80 (4%) | Mushi, Net, Ohaiyo |
11 | ![]() | 1 / 80 (1%) | fng |
11 | ![]() | 1 / 80 (1%) | Puppey |
11 | ![]() | 1 / 80 (1%) | Black^ |
11 | ![]() | 1 / 80 (1%) | Fly |
11 | ![]() | 1 / 80 (1%) | Miracle- |
11 | ![]() | 1 / 80 (1%) | ddc |
11 | ![]() | 1 / 80 (1%) | SumaiL |
11 | ![]() | 1 / 80 (1%) | w33 |
11 | ![]() | 1 / 80 (1%) | iceiceice |
Additional content[edit]
Player Profiles[edit]
- 2015-11-16 | Alliance: New Momentum, New Energy Level by ESL
- 2015-11-16 | MSS: An Important Part of My Life by ESL
- 2015-11-16 | Bulldog - Bulldong is back by ESL
- 2015-11-16 | Arteezy - I want to meet my expectations by ESL
- 2015-11-17 | EternalEnvy - Expectations by ESL
References[edit]
- ↑ Dota 2 (2015-10-14). "The Frankfurt Major Teams". Blog.dota2.com. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
- ↑ Hans Oelschlägel (2015-10-19). "Revealing the Frankfurt Major group stage format and schedule". eslgaming.com. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
- ↑ Dota2RuHub (2015-11-12). "Полный список комментаторов и аналитиков который будут работать для вас на мейджоре!". Twitter. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ OG (2015-10-31). "Monkey Business is now OG". Twitter. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
- ↑ Julmust (2015-11-03). "iG to withdraw from Frankfurt Major". LiquidDota. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- ↑ ESL (2015-11-08). "Invictus Gaming replaced by Newbee Young". thefrankfurtmajor.com. Retrieved 2015-11-08.