MDL Chengdu Major

[e][h]MDL Chengdu Major

League Information

Series:

Mars Dota 2 League

Dota Pro Circuit

Organizer:

Mars Media

Sponsor:

McLaren • China CITIC Bank • Visa • Secrtelab • ZOWIE GEAR • Mayn 宁美国度 • MITARBEITER(IN)

Version:

7.22h

Type:

Offline

Location:

Chengdu

Venue:

Chengdu Century City New International Convention & Exhibition Center

Dates:

Nov 16 - 24, 2019

Teams:

16

Format:

Group Stage
GSL Format
Playoffs
Double Elimination

Prize Pool:

$1,000,000 USD

Pro Circuit Points:

15,000

Pro Circuit Tier:

Major

Liquipedia Tier:

Tier 1

Links

The tenth issue of Mars Media's flagship tournament will be the MDL Chengdu Major. It will be the first Major of the 2019/20 DPC Season and MDL's overall third Major. In November 2019, sixteen of the world's best teams will compete in the "Panda Capital" for their share of valuable DPC points to qualify for The International 2020 and the $1,000,000 USD prize pool.^[1]

Format[edit]

Participants:
- Fifteen Teams from Regional Qualifiers
  - Three teams each from Europe, China and Southeast Asia
  - Two teams each from CIS, North and South America
- One team as champion of DOTA Summit 11
Group Stage - November 16-17th
- Four GSL groups
- All games are Bo3
- Top two teams advance to the Upper Bracket of the playoffs
- Bottom two teams advance to the Lower Bracket of the playoffs
Playoffs - November 18-24th
- Double elimination bracket
- Only the final three days will be in front of a live crowd.
- First round of the Lower Bracket are Bo1
- All other games are Bo3
- Bo5 Grand Finals

Broadcast Talent[edit]

English
Russian
Show All

The talent for the English broadcast was announced on November 1st, 2019.^[2]

Desk Host:
- Sheever (Jorien van der Heijden)

Observers:
- Weppas (Johan Westberg)
- Poptart (David Mejia)

Analysts/Commentators:
- ODPixel (Owen Davies)
- Fogged (Ioannis Loucas)
- Capitalist (Austin Walsh)
- TrentPax (Trent MacKenzie)
- LD (David Gorman)
- GoDz (David Parker)
- GranDGranT (Grant Harris)
- Lyrical (Gabriel Cruz)
- Tsunami (Neal Khandheria)

Off-site Commentators:
- Bkop (Benjamin Kopilow)
- Basskip (Cameron Scott)
- Danog (Matt Joyce)
- BreakyCPK (Nick Caras)
- KillerPigeon (Darren Elmy)
- lizZard (Admir Salkanović)
- Lacoste (Dominik Stipić)
- MLPDotA (Mike Le Phoenix)
- Johnxfire (John Nathan Fernandez)
- Jenkins (Andrew Jenkins)
- Moxxi (Michelle Song)

The talent for the Russian broadcast was announced on November 8, 2019.^[3]

Hosts:
- CrystalMay (Dmitry Korchevinin)
- NotInMyHouse (Dmitry Krupnov)
- Instamityay (Dmitry Serebrennikov)

Analysts:
- Smile (Sergey Revin)
- NS (Yaroslav Kuznetsov)
- LighTofHeaveN (Dmitry Kupriyanov)
- Inmate (Dmitry Filinov)

Commentators:
- Lex (Alexey Filippov)
- 4ce (Nikita Kotkov)
- Maelstorm (Vladimir Kuzminov)
- Adekvat (Rustam Mavliutov)
- Mortalles (Dmitry Arzhylovsky)
- Mila (Mila Alieva)
- JAM (Alexander Korotkov)
- Eiritel (Daria Morozova)

Prize Pool[edit]

The prize pool for the tournament is $1,000,000 USD and 15000 Pro Circuit Points.

Place	$ USD	DPC Points	Team
1st	$300,000	4,850	TNC Predator
2nd	$160,000	3,000	Vici Gaming
3rd	$110,000	2,100	Invictus Gaming
4th	$80,000	1,350	Evil Geniuses
5th-6th	$60,000	900	Team Liquid
5th-6th	$60,000	900	J.Storm
7th-8th	$40,000	450	Alliance
7th-8th	$40,000	450	beastcoast
9th-12th	$25,000	150	EHOME
			Team Aster
			Fnatic
			Fighting PandaS
13th-16th	$12,500	100	Team Spirit
			Gambit Esports
			Team Unknown
			Team Adroit

Participants[edit]

Alliance

1	Nikobaby
2	LIMMP
3	33
4	Handsken
5	Fata


Europe

Team Liquid

1	m`iCKe
2	qojqva
3	Boxi
4	Taiga
5	iNSaNiA
C	Blitz


Europe

Vici Gaming

1	Eurus
2	Ori
3	Yang
4	Pyw
5	Dy
C	rOtk


China

Team Aster

1	Sccc
2	ChYuan
3	Xxs
4	BoBoKa
5	Fade
C	Mikasa


China

EHOME

1	vtFαded
2	897
3	Faith_bian
4	XinQ
5	y`
C	xiao8


China

Gambit Esports

1	dream
2	gpk~
3	Shachlo
4	XSvamp1Re
5	fng
C	distilled


CIS

Team Spirit¹

1	iLTW
2	Ergon
3	Ghostik
4	Immersion
5	Misha
C	TheHeartlessKing


CIS

Fnatic

1	23savage
2	MooN
3	iceiceice
4	DJ
5	jabz
C	SunBhie


Southeast Asia

TNC Predator

1	Gabbi
2	Armel
3	kpii
4	TIMS
5	March


Southeast Asia

Team Adroit

1	Natsumi-
2	Mac
3	Bok
4	Boombacs
5	cml


Southeast Asia

Evil Geniuses

1	Arteezy
2	Abed
3	RAMZES666
4	Cr1t-
5	Fly
C	BuLba


North America

Fighting PandaS

1	EternaLEnVy
2	Bryle
3	MoonMeander
4	Sneyking
5	Aui_2000


North America

J.Storm

1	Moo
2	Nine
3	Brax
4	MoOz
5	Fear
C	DeMoN


North America

beastcoast

1	k1
2	Chris Luck
3	Wisper
4	ScofielD
5	StingeR


South America

Team Unknown

1	Berna
2	AtunnN
3	greeDy
4	Wij
5	Prada
C	FalcoStyle


South America

Invictus Gaming

1	flyfly
2	Emo
3	JT-
4	kaka
5	Oli~
C	super


DOTA Summit Champion

¹ Positive Guys was signed by Team Spirit on October 24th.^[4]

Roster moves since The International
Date Player Old New Ref 2019-10-24 TheHeartlessKing (Coach) ⇒ (Coach) [1] 2019-10-24 Immersion (Inactive) ⇒ [2] 2019-10-24 Ergon Ghostik iLTW Misha ⇒ [3] 2019-10-11 SumaiL ⇒ (Inactive) [4] 2019-10-04 Chris Luck K1 Scofield Stinger Wisper ⇒ [5] 2019-10-03 33 Fata Handsken Limmp Nikobaby None ⇒ [6] 2019-10-02 Boxi iNSaNiA miCKe qojqva Taiga ⇒ [7] 2019-09-28 Brax ⇒ (Trial) [8] 2019-09-28 Resolut1on ⇒ [9] 2019-09-27 897 None ⇒ [10] 2019-09-27 vtFαded ⇒ [11] 2019-09-27 NeverEnd ⇒ (Inactive) [12] 2019-09-27 430 ⇒ None [13] 2019-09-26 Boxi iNSaNiA miCKe qojqva Taiga ⇒ [14] 2019-09-21 Pyw ⇒ [15] 2019-09-19 Mandy ⇒ [16] 2019-09-18 dogf1ghts ⇒ [17] 2019-09-18 Kaka None ⇒ [18] 2019-09-18 Ryoya ⇒ [19] 2019-09-17 doodle ⇒ [20] 2019-09-17 1437 ⇒ None [21] 2019-09-17 MoOz ⇒ [22] 2019-09-16 s4 SumaiL ⇒ (Inactive) [23][24] 2019-09-16 RAMZES666 ⇒ [25][26] 2019-09-16 Abed None ⇒ [27] 2019-09-14 eLeVeN old chicken (Loan) ⇒ (Inactive) [28] 2019-09-13 GH KuroKy MinD_ContRoL Miracle- w33 ⇒ [29] 2019-09-13 Heen (Coach) ⇒ None [30] 2019-09-13 kpii ⇒ [31] 2019-09-13 March (Coach) ⇒ [32] 2019-09-13 eyyou Kuku ⇒ None [33] 2019-09-08 Kamma Q ⇒ None [34] 2019-09-08 Fade None ⇒ [35] 2019-09-04 23savage ⇒ [36] 2019-09-04 Moon ⇒ [37] 2019-09-04 Abed ⇒ None [38] 2019-09-01 Sccc None ⇒ [39] 2019-08-29 bryle (Inactive) ⇒ [40] 2019-08-28 DuBu ⇒ None [41] 2019-08-27 Fade ⇒ None [42]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group A
1.	TNC Predator	2-0	4-0
2.	Fighting PandaS	2-1	5-2
3.	EHOME	1-2	2-5
4.	Team Unknown	0-2	0-4

Matches
Opening Matches
EHOME	2 EHOME PandaS November 16, 2019 - 10:00 CST 44m36s 30m56s 25m09s	1	PandaS
TNC	2 TNC UNK November 16, 2019 - 10:00 CST 22m45s 17m45s	0	UNK
Winners' Match
EHOME	0 EHOME TNC November 16, 2019 - 13:00 CST 62m58s 34m38s	2	TNC
Losers' Match
PandaS	2 PandaS UNK November 17, 2019 - 10:00 CST 34m41s 33m59s	0	UNK
Decider Match
EHOME	0 EHOME PandaS November 17, 2019 - 12:30 CST 41m22s 32m58s	2	PandaS

Group B[edit]

Group B
1.	Vici Gaming	2-0	4-2
2.	Alliance	2-1	5-3
3.	Fnatic	1-2	3-4
4.	Team Spirit	0-2	1-4

Matches
Opening Matches
[A]	2 [A] Fnatic November 16, 2019 - 10:00 CST 32m57s 47m41s 45m02s	1	Fnatic
TSpirit	1 TSpirit VG November 16, 2019 - 10:00 CST 27m19s 39m09s 32m46s	2	VG
Winners' Match
[A]	1 [A] VG November 16, 2019 - 14:00 CST 42m59s 26m27s 19m25s	2	VG
Losers' Match
Fnatic	2 Fnatic TSpirit November 17, 2019 - 10:00 CST 42m41s 42m42s	0	TSpirit
Decider Match
[A]	2 [A] Fnatic November 17, 2019 - 12:30 CST 52m30s 29m15s	0	Fnatic

Group C[edit]

Group C
1.	Team Liquid	2-0	4-1
2.	Evil Geniuses	2-1	5-3
3.	Team Aster	1-2	3-4
4.	Team Adroit	0-2	0-4

Matches
Opening Matches
Adroit	0 Adroit EG November 16, 2019 - 17:30 CST 34m26s 36m25s	2	EG
Aster	0 Aster Liquid November 16, 2019 - 17:30 CST 53m36s 34m29s	2	Liquid
Winners' Match
EG	1 EG Liquid November 16, 2019 - 20:30 CST 36m28s 52m45s 46m10s	2	Liquid
Losers' Match
Adroit	0 Adroit Aster November 17, 2019 - 16:00 CST 29m32s 45m50s	2	Aster
Decider Match
EG	2 EG Aster November 17, 2019 - 18:00 CST 52m16s 54m09s 43m05s	1	Aster

Group D[edit]

Group D
1.	Invictus Gaming	2-0	4-0
2.	J.Storm	2-1	4-4
3.	beastcoast	1-2	3-5
4.	Gambit Esports	0-2	2-4

Matches
Opening Matches
bc	0 bc iG November 16, 2019 - 17:30 CST 37m29s 50m48s	2	iG
Gambit	1 Gambit J.S November 16, 2019 - 17:30 CST 14m47s 35m58s 25m41s	2	J.S
Winners' Match
iG	2 iG J.S November 16, 2019 - 20:30 CST 62m10s 23m36s	0	J.S
Losers' Match
bc	2 bc Gambit November 17, 2019 - 15:30 CST 40m35s 31m57s 26m26s	1	Gambit
Decider Match
J.S	2 J.S bc November 17, 2019 - 19:00 CST 43m32s 56m28s 45m18s	1	bc

Playoffs[edit]

Show bracket

Date	Team	Score	Vs. Team
2019-11-18 02:00:00November 18, 2019 - 02:00	TNC	2 : 1	[A]
2019-11-18 06:00:00November 18, 2019 - 06:00	Liquid	1 : 2	J.S
2019-11-18 09:30:00November 18, 2019 - 09:30	EHOME	1 : 0	TSpirit
2019-11-18 11:00:00November 18, 2019 - 11:00	Aster	1 : 0	Gambit
2019-11-18 12:30:00November 18, 2019 - 12:30	Fnatic	1 : 0	UNK
2019-11-18 14:00:00November 18, 2019 - 14:00	bc	1 : 0	Adroit
2019-11-19 02:00:00November 19, 2019 - 02:00	VG	2 : 0	PandaS
2019-11-19 04:00:00November 19, 2019 - 04:00	iG	0 : 2	EG
2019-11-19 06:30:00November 19, 2019 - 06:30	Liquid	2 : 0	EHOME
2019-11-19 09:30:00November 19, 2019 - 09:30	[A]	2 : 1	Aster
2019-11-20 02:00:00November 20, 2019 - 02:00	iG	2 : 1	Fnatic
2019-11-20 05:30:00November 20, 2019 - 05:30	PandaS	0 : 2	bc
2019-11-20 08:00:00November 20, 2019 - 08:00	TNC	2 : 0	J.S
2019-11-20 11:10:00November 20, 2019 - 11:10	VG	2 : 1	EG
2019-11-22 04:20:00November 22, 2019 - 04:20	Liquid	2 : 0	[A]
2019-11-22 07:30:00November 22, 2019 - 07:30	iG	2 : 1	bc
2019-11-22 11:00:00November 22, 2019 - 11:00	EG	2 : 0	Liquid
2019-11-23 04:00:00November 23, 2019 - 04:00	J.S	0 : 2	iG
2019-11-23 07:00:00November 23, 2019 - 07:00	TNC	0 : 2	VG
2019-11-23 10:30:00November 23, 2019 - 10:30	EG	1 : 2	iG
2019-11-24 05:00:00November 24, 2019 - 05:00	TNC	2 : 0	iG
2019-11-24 09:00:00November 24, 2019 - 09:00	VG	1 : 3	TNC

Show schedule

Upper Bracket R1 (Bo3)

TNC Predator

2

Alliance

1

Team Liquid

1

J.Storm

2

Vici Gaming

2

Fighting PandaS

0

Invictus Gaming

0

Evil Geniuses

2

Upper Bracket R2 (Bo3)

TNC Predator

2

J.Storm

0

Vici Gaming

2

Evil Geniuses

1

Upper Bracket Final (Bo3)

TNC Predator

0

Vici Gaming

2

Lower Bracket R1 (Bo1)

EHOME

1

Team Spirit

0

Team Aster

1

Gambit Esports

0

Fnatic

1

Team Unknown

0

beastcoast

1

Team Adroit

0

Lower Bracket R2 (Bo3)

Team Liquid

2

EHOME

0

Alliance

2

Team Aster

1

Invictus Gaming

2

Fnatic

1

Fighting PandaS

0

beastcoast

2

Lower Bracket R3 (Bo3)

Team Liquid

2

Alliance

0

Invictus Gaming

2

beastcoast

1

Lower Bracket R4 (Bo3)

Evil Geniuses

2

Team Liquid

0

J.Storm

0

Invictus Gaming

2

Lower Bracket R5 (Bo3)

Evil Geniuses

1

Invictus Gaming

2

Lower Bracket Final (Bo3)

TNC Predator

2

Invictus Gaming

0

Grand Final (Bo5)

Vici Gaming

1

TNC Predator

3

Additional Content[edit]

Streams[edit]

Huya | 2 | 3 | 4
Douyu | 2 | 3 | 4
Huomao | 2 | 3 | 4
Bilibili | 2 | 3 | 4
BeyondTheSummit | 2 | 3 | 4
Dota2RuHub | 2 | 3 | 4
MissClick TV | 2
EG
CZ/SK Coverage

Miscellaneous[edit]

2019-11-18 | Good Morning Purge - MDL Chengdu Major: Main Event - Day 1 by Beyond the Summit
2019-11-19 | Good Morning Purge - MDL Chengdu Major: Main Event - Day 2 by Beyond the Summit
2019-11-20 | Good Morning Purge - MDL Chengdu Major: Main Event - Day 3 by Beyond the Summit
2019-11-22 | Good Morning Purge - MDL Chengdu Major: Main Event - Day 4 by Beyond the Summit
2019-11-22 | Good Morning Purge - MDL Chengdu Major: Main Event - Day 5 by Beyond the Summit
2019-11-24 | Good Morning Purge - MDL Chengdu Major: Main Event - Day 6 by Beyond the Summit
2019-11-24 | MDL Chengdu Major - Final Day Highlights by Beyond the Summit

Additional Data[edit]

Country Representation[edit]

#	Country / Region	Representation	Players
1	China	16 / 80 (20%)	897, BoBoKa, Dy, Emo, Eurus, Fade, Faith_bian, flyfly, kaka, Ori, Pyw, Sccc, XinQ, Xxs, y`, Yang
2	Philippines	10 / 80 (13%)	Abed, Armel, Bok, Boombacs, cml, DJ, Gabbi, Mac, Natsumi-, TIMS
3	Peru	8 / 80 (10%)	Berna, Chris Luck, greeDy, k1, MoOz, Prada, ScofielD, StingeR
4	Russia	6 / 80 (8%)	gpk~, iLTW, Immersion, Misha, RAMZES666, Shachlo
5	Canada	5 / 80 (6%)	Arteezy, Aui_2000, Bryle, EternaLEnVy, MoonMeander
5	Malaysia	5 / 80 (6%)	ChYuan, JT-, MooN, Oli~, vtFαded
5	Sweden	5 / 80 (6%)	Boxi, Handsken, iNSaNiA, LIMMP, m`iCKe
8	United States	4 / 80 (5%)	Brax, Fear, Moo, Sneyking
9	Germany	3 / 80 (4%)	Fata, Nine, qojqva
10	Belarus	2 / 80 (3%)	Ergon, fng
10	Israel	2 / 80 (3%)	33, Fly
10	Thailand	2 / 80 (3%)	23savage, jabz
13		1 / 80 (1%)	AtunnN
13	Argentina	1 / 80 (1%)	Wij
13	Australia	1 / 80 (1%)	kpii
13	Bolivia	1 / 80 (1%)	Wisper
13	Bulgaria	1 / 80 (1%)	Nikobaby
13	Denmark	1 / 80 (1%)	Cr1t-
13	Kazakhstan	1 / 80 (1%)	XSvamp1Re
13	Kyrgyzstan	1 / 80 (1%)	dream
13	Norway	1 / 80 (1%)	Taiga
13	Singapore	1 / 80 (1%)	iceiceice
13	South Korea	1 / 80 (1%)	March
13	Ukraine	1 / 80 (1%)	Ghostik

References[edit]

↑ Mars Media (2019-09-20). "MDL Return to China with the Chengdu Major". facebook.com.
↑ BeyondTheSummit (2019-11-01). "Beyond the Summit will be providing English coverage". Twitter.com.
↑ Dota 2 RuHub (2019-11-08). "С 16 по 24 ноября в Чэнду пройдет первый мейджор сезона с призовым фондом 1 000 000 $ и 15 000 DPC-очков!". vk.com.
↑ 0x04b8 (2019-10-24). "New Team Spirit Dota 2 Roster". teamspirit.ru.

[announcement-1] Mars Media (2019-09-20). "MDL Return to China with the Chengdu Major". facebook.com.

[2] BeyondTheSummit (2019-11-01). "Beyond the Summit will be providing English coverage". Twitter.com.

[3] Dota 2 RuHub (2019-11-08). "С 16 по 24 ноября в Чэнду пройдет первый мейджор сезона с призовым фондом 1 000 000 $ и 15 000 DPC-очков!". vk.com.

[team_spirit-4] 0x04b8 (2019-10-24). "New Team Spirit Dota 2 Roster". teamspirit.ru.

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MDL Chengdu Major

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Format[edit]

Broadcast Talent[edit]

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Participants[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Playoffs[edit]

Additional Content[edit]

Streams[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

Additional Data[edit]

Country Representation[edit]

References[edit]

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Contents

MDL Chengdu Major

Format[edit]

Broadcast Talent[edit]

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Participants[edit]

Group Stage[edit]

Group A[edit]

Group B[edit]

Group C[edit]

Group D[edit]

Playoffs[edit]

Additional Content[edit]

Streams[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]

Additional Data[edit]

Country Representation[edit]

References[edit]

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