StarLadder StarSeries Season 10

[e][h]StarLadder StarSeries Season 10

League Information

Series:

StarLadder

Organizer:

StarLadder

Type:

Offline

Location:

Kiev

Dates:

Aug 15 - Oct 26, 2014

Teams:

8

Format:

Online League Play
Offline Playoffs

Prize Pool:

$233,980 USD

Dota TV Ticket:

$9.99 USD

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

StarLadder StarSeries Season 9

StarLadder StarSeries Season 11

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
5th-6th	$9,359	4%	Team Tinker
7th-8th	$5,850	2.5%	Execration
7th-8th	$5,850	2.5%	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]

Natus Vincere

1	XBOCT
2	Dendi
3	Funn1k
4	fng
5	VANSKOR


StarSeries Europe and CIS

Team Secret

1	KuroKy
2	s4
3	Fly
4	BigDaddy
5	Puppey
C	1437


StarSeries Europe and CIS

Alliance⁽¹⁾

1	Loda
2	Apemother
3	AdmiralBulldog
4	MiSeRy
5	Akke


StarSeries Europe and CIS

Team Tinker

1	SingSing
2	Pajkatt
3	qojqva
4	EGM
5	BuLba


StarSeries Europe and CIS

Execration

1	Bimbo
2	Ewe
3	Foxx
4	Kim0
5	RR


StarSeries SEA

Evil Geniuses

1	Fear
2	Arteezy
3	UNiVeRsE
4	zai
5	ppd


StarSeries Americas

Cloud9^{(2) (3)}

1	EternalEnVy
2	FATA-
3	Mag~
4	Aui_2000
5	pieliedie


StarSeries China

Virtus.Pro⁽²⁾

1	BzzIsPerfect
2	God
3	Sedoy
4	yol
5	JotM


StarSeries China

⁽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 EG TT October 23, 2014 - 10:00 EEST 41m11s	0	TT
TT	1 TT [A] October 23, 2014 - 11:40 EEST 41m46s	0	[A]
EG	1 EG [A] October 23, 2014 - 17:50 EEST 31m42s	0	[A]
C9	0 C9 TT October 24, 2014 - 9:25 EEST 51m38s	1	TT
C9	1 C9 EG October 24, 2014 - 11:05 EEST 55m02s	0	EG
C9	0 C9 [A] October 24, 2014 - 12:40 EEST 39m30s	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 VP Secret October 23, 2014 - 13:30 EEST 60m05s	1	Secret
XctN	0 XctN Na`Vi October 23, 2014 - 15:25 EEST 31m25s	1	Na`Vi
XctN	1 XctN VP October 23, 2014 - 16:35 EEST 33m26s	0	VP
Na`Vi	0 Na`Vi VP October 23, 2014 - 19:10 EEST 43m56s	1	VP
XctN	0 XctN Secret October 23, 2014 - 20:50 EEST 52m29s	1	Secret
Na`Vi	0 Na`Vi Secret October 24, 2014 - 14:20 EEST 17m27s	1	Secret

Group B Tiebreaker[edit]

Tiebreaker
1.	Natus Vincere	2-0
2.	Virtus.pro	1-1
3.	Execration	0-2

Tiebreaker Matches
Na`Vi	1 Na`Vi VP October 24, 2014 - 15:25 EEST 64m47s	0	VP
VP	1 VP XctN October 24, 2014 - 17:10 EEST 51m46s	0	XctN
XctN	0 XctN Na`Vi October 24, 2014 - 18:40 EEST 42m23s	1	Na`Vi