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StarLadder StarSeries Season 10
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StarLadder StarSeries Season 10
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Type:
Offline
Location:
Kiev Dates:
Aug 15 - Oct 26, 2014
Teams:
8
Format:
Online League Play
Offline Playoffs
Offline Playoffs
Prize Pool:
$233,980 USD
Dota TV Ticket:
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Overview[edit]
Format[edit]
Qualifiers[edit]
- Europe+CIS
- 16 Team Bo1 Round Robin
- Online: 27.08 - 05.10
- 4 Teams Qualify for Finals
- China
- 8 Teams, Bo1 Round Robin, Top 4 Teams Into Bo3 DE Bracket
- Online: 09.09 - 27.09
- 2 Teams Qualify for Finals
- America
- 8 Teams, Bo1 Round Robin, Top 4 Teams Into Bo3 DE Bracket
- Online: 26.08 - 24.09
- 1 Team Qualifies for Finals
- SEA
- 12 Team Bo1 Round Robin
- Online: 20.08 - 27.09
- 1 Team Qualifies for Finals
Finals[edit]
- Group Stage
- Two groups of four teams in a best-of-one round robin.
- Top two teams advance to the upper bracket and the bottom two advance to the lower bracket.
- All matches are played in a Best of One series.
- Playoffs
- Double Elimination Bracket with four teams seeded into the upper and lower bracket respectively.
- First two round of lower bracket are played in Best of One format.
- All other matches except Grand Finals are played in Best of Three format.
- Grand Finals are played in a Best of Five Series.
Prize Pool[edit]
The sponsored prize pool will be $80,000, but viewers will be able to increase it via ticket purchases.
As of October 25, 2014, the prize pool was $273,980. $40,000 of the overall prize pool was used to cover travel expenses for teams.
| Place | $ USD | Percent | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
 1st
|
$105,291 | 45% |  Evil Geniuses
|
 2nd
|
$46,796 | 20% |  Team Secret
|
 3rd
|
$32,757 | 14% |  Cloud9
|
 4th
|
$18,718 | 8% |  Alliance
|
| 5th-6th | $9,359 | 4% |  Natus Vincere
|
 Team Tinker
| |||
| 7th-8th | $5,850 | 2.5% |  Execration
|
 Virtus.pro
|
View Games[edit]
Official casters for the tournament are:
- StarLadder TV cast by Vitalii "v1lat" Volochai and Roman "CaspeRRR" Lepokhin.
Russian Stream cast by Viktor "GodHunt" Volkov and Rustam "Adekvat" Mavlutov.
BeyondTheSummitTV cast by BeyondTheSummit Studio.
Chinese Stream cast by "LGD.tv"
Brazilian Stream cast by "NoMad TV"
Participating Teams[edit]
(1)Apemother stood-in for Chessie at the LAN finals.[1]
(2)VG and Newbee withdrew over security concerns in Ukraine. They were replaced by C9 and VP.[2]
(3)bOne7 was replaced with Mag~ due to health issues.[3]
Results[edit]
Group Stage[edit]
Group A[edit]
| Round Robin | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Evil Geniuses
|
2-1 | ||||
| 2. | Team Tinker
|
2-1 | ||||
| 3. | Alliance
|
1-2 | ||||
| 4. | Cloud9
|
1-2 | ||||
| Group A Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| EG | 1 | 0 | TT |
| TT | 1 | 0 | [A] |
| EG | 1 | 0 | [A] |
| C9 | 0 | 1 | TT |
| C9 | 1 | 0 | EG |
| C9 | 0 | 1 | [A] |
Group B[edit]
| Round Robin | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Team Secret
|
3-0 | ||||
| 2. | Natus Vincere
|
1-2 | ||||
| 3. | Virtus.pro
|
1-2 | ||||
| 4. | Execration
|
1-2 | ||||
| Group B Matches | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VP | 0 | 1 | Secret |
| XctN | 0 | 1 | Na`Vi |
| XctN | 1 | 0 | VP |
| Na`Vi | 0 | 1 | VP |
| XctN | 0 | 1 | Secret |
| Na`Vi | 0 | 1 | Secret |
Playoffs[edit]
Winner's Round 1 (Bo3)
Evil Geniuses
2
Natus Vincere
1
Upper Bracket Finals
Loser's Round 1 (Bo1)
Loser's Round 2 (Bo1)
Loser's Round 3 (Bo3)
Loser's Finals (Bo3)
Grand Finals
Team Secret
2
October 26, 2014 - 20:20 EET
Default
40m43s
34m57s
41m26s
58m46s
Team Secret has a 1-0 lead as the upper bracket winner.
Evil Geniuses
3
VODs[edit]
- / StarLadder TV Official YouTube VODs @ dotasltv
- BeyondTheSummit Studio YouTube VODs @ beyondthesummittv
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Kelly Ong Xiao Wei (2014-10-17). "Kelly Ong ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ on Twitter: "Hey guys, @Apemother will be standing in for @ChessieDota for #SLTV Finals as Chessie is still healing up. [Apemother for #BELIEVE :"D""]. Twitter. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
- ↑ http://dota2.starladder.tv/news/5669
- ↑ Matthew Elmas (2014-10-23). "SL X: B0ne7 sick, Mag steps in for C9". joinDOTA. Retrieved 2015-07-16.