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The International 2016
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The International 2016
League Information
Series:
Sponsor(s):
Type:
Offline
Location:
SeattleVenue:
KeyArena
Format:
Group Stage
Round-robin
Playoffs
Double-elimination
Round-robin
Playoffs
Double-elimination
Prize Pool:
$20,770,460 USD
Start Date:
2016-08-02
End Date:
2016-08-13
Game:
Version:
Teams:
16
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Chronology
The International 2016 was the fourth Major of the 2016 season and the sixth annual edition of The International. The tournament was hosted in Seattle for the fifth consecutive year; it was the third consecutive year that the Main Event took place at KeyArena, a multi-purpose arena in Seattle Center with a total seating capacity of over 17,000.
Format[edit]
- Open Qualifiers - June 21st - June 24th, 2016
- 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 - June 25th - June 28th, 2016
- Four Regional Qualifiers.
- One group, with the winner advancing directly to The International.
- Second through fifth place teams advance to the Regional Double-elimination Playoff Bracket.
- The winner of each Regional Playoff Bracket will join the six directly invited teams in Seattle.
- Third-place teams will advance to the Wild Card round in Seattle.
- Four Regional Qualifiers.
- Wild Card - August 2nd, 2016
- Four team double-elimination bracket.
- Top two teams advance to group stage.
- Bottom two teams are eliminated.
- All matches are best of three.
- Four team double-elimination bracket.
- Group Stage - August 3rd - August 5th, 2016
- Two groups of eight teams.
- Teams play every other team in their group in a best of 2
- Top four teams in each group advance to upper bracket of the Main Event.
- Bottom four teams in each group advance to lower bracket of the Main Event.
- Two groups of eight teams.
- Main Event - August 8th - August 13th, 2016
- Sixteen teams play in a double elimination format over six days.
- 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.
- Sixteen teams play in a double elimination format over six days.
Broadcast Talent[edit]
- Host:
ReDeYe (Paul Chaloner)
- Statistician:
Noxville (Ben Steenhuisen)
- Interviewers:
- Kaci Aitchison
- SirActionSlacks (Jake Kanner)
- Translators:
- AutumnWindz (Joshua Lee)
- KBBQDota (Jack Chen)
- tiltachu (Tiffany Chao)
- XiiTuzi (Helen Xu)
- Staff:
- Icelement (Rob Rygh)
- Host:
Faker (Ivan Demkin)
- Interviewers:
- derrick_deny (Alexander Hitrov)
- Morf-designer
prb (Oleg Bulavko)
- Statistician:
- Leo (Oleh Povar)
- Host:
BBC (Zhang Hongsheng)
Prize Pool[edit]
The base prize pool of the tournament was $1,600,000 USD.
An additional 25% of all Battle Pass sales were added to the total prize pool ($19,170,460 USD added).[4][5]
$20,770,460 USD are spread among the participants as seen below:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Wings Gaming (from left to right):
Faith_bian, iceice, shadow, y` and bLink
Participants[edit]
Invited Teams[edit]
| 1 |  MATUMBAMAN |
|---|---|
| 2 |  FATA- |
| 3 |  MinD_ContRoL |
| 4 | JerAx |
| 5 | KuroKy |
| C |  Heen |
7th - 8th  (2013) | |
| Preview | |
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| Invited | |
Qualified Teams[edit]
Wild Card Qualified[edit]
Results[edit]
Group Stage[edit]
Group A[edit]
| Standings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Evil Geniuses | 1-2-0 | 4 | |||
| 1. |  LGD Gaming | 1-2-0 | 4 | |||
| 1. |  OG | 1-2-0 | 4 | |||
| 4. |  Alliance | 1-1-1 | 3 | |||
| 4. |  TNC Pro Team | 1-1-1 | 3 | |||
| 6. | Wings Gaming | 1-1-1 | 3 | |||
| 7. |  Natus Vincere | 0-2-1 | 2 | |||
| 8. |  Escape Gaming | 0-1-2 | 1 | |||
| 1. | Evil Geniuses | 3-2-0 | 8 | |||
| 2. | OG▼1 | 2-3-0 | 7 | |||
| 3. | Wings Gaming▲3 | 2-2-1 | 6 | |||
| 4. | Alliance | 2-1-2 | 5 | |||
| 5. | TNC Pro Team▼1 | 2-1-2 | 5 | |||
| 6. | Natus Vincere▲1 | 1-2-2 | 4 | |||
| 7. | LGD Gaming▼6 | 1-2-2 | 4 | |||
| 8. | Escape Gaming | 0-1-4 | 1 | |||
| 1. | OG▲1 | 4-3-0 | 11 | |||
| 2. | Evil Geniuses▼1 | 3-3-1 | 9 | |||
| 3. | Wings Gaming | 3-2-2 | 8 | |||
| 4. | Alliance | 3-2-2 | 8 | |||
| 5. | TNC Pro Team | 3-1-3 | 7 | |||
| 6. | Natus Vincere | 2-2-3 | 6 | |||
| 7. | LGD Gaming | 1-3-3 | 5 | |||
| 8. | Escape Gaming | 0-2-5 | 2 | |||
Group B[edit]
| Standings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Digital Chaos | 1-1-0 | 3 | |||
| 1. |  EHOME | 1-1-0 | 3 | |||
| 1. |  Newbee | 1-1-0 | 3 | |||
| 1. |   Team Secret | 1-1-0 | 3 | |||
| 5. |  MVP Phoenix | 0-2-0 | 2 | |||
| 5. |  Team Liquid | 0-2-0 | 2 | |||
| 7. | Fnatic | 0-0-2 | 0 | |||
| 7. |  VG.Reborn | 0-0-2 | 0 | |||
| 1. | EHOME | 4-1-0 | 9 | |||
| 2. | Digital Chaos▼1 | 3-2-0 | 8 | |||
| 3. | Newbee▼2 | 2-1-2 | 5 | |||
| 3. | Team Liquid▲2 | 1-3-1 | 5 | |||
| 5. | MVP Phoenix | 0-4-1 | 4 | |||
| 5. | VG.Reborn▲2 | 1-2-2 | 4 | |||
| 7. | Team Secret▼6 | 1-1-3 | 3 | |||
| 8. | Fnatic▼1 | 1-0-4 | 2 | |||
| 1. | EHOME | 5-2-0 | 12 | |||
| 2. | Digital Chaos | 4-3-0 | 11 | |||
| 3. | Newbee | 3-2-2 | 8 | |||
| 4. | MVP Phoenix▲1 | 0-6-1 | 6 | |||
| 5. | Fnatic▲3 | 2-1-4 | 5 | |||
| 6. | Team Secret▲1 | 2-1-4 | 5 | |||
| 7. | Team Liquid▼4 | 1-3-3 | 5 | |||
| 8. | VG.Reborn▼3 | 1-2-4 | 4 | |||
Click here for more information about the Group Stage matches.
Main Event[edit]
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Upper Bracket R1 (Bo3) Upper Bracket R2 (Bo3) Upper Bracket Final (Bo3) Grand Final (Bo5) 1 2 1 2 August 8, 2016 - 11:00 PDT       39m06s          43m21s         30m47s   
      1 2 1 2 August 8, 2016 - 14:20 PDT   43m07s     27m33s      25m32s   
0 2 0 2 August 10, 2016 - 16:35 PDT 32m59s      36m39s 
2 0 2 0 August 9, 2016 - 10:40 PDT   36m20s   36m53s 
2 0 2 0 August 9, 2016 - 12:50 PDT  31m04s   70m42s 
0 2 0 2 August 10, 2016 - 18:45 PDT  75m35s  38m13s 
2 0 2 0 August 12, 2016 - 13:45 PDT    38m26s    23m46s 
Lower Bracket R1 (Bo1) Lower Bracket R2 (Bo3) Lower Bracket R3 (Bo3) Lower Bracket R4 (Bo3) Lower Bracket R5 (Bo3) Lower Bracket Final (Bo3) 1 0 1 0 August 8, 2016 - 17:15 PDT 36m36s 
0 2 0 2 August 9, 2016 - 15:35 PDT   54m17s    59m23s 
0 1 0 1 August 8, 2016 - 18:25 PDT 69m44s
2 0 2 0 August 9, 2016 - 18:25 PDT  39m46s   56m48s 
1 2 1 2 August 11, 2016 - 10:55 PDT 39m30s   47m50s  28m14s
0 2 0 2 August 11, 2016 - 17:15 PDT 31m52s  37m50s
1 0 1 0 August 8, 2016 - 20:05 PDT  26m00s
0 2 0 2 August 10, 2016 - 10:40 PDT 63m32s 39m48s
0 1 0 1 August 8, 2016 - 21:10 PDT 35m55s
1 2 1 2 August 10, 2016 - 13:20 PDT 54m17s 17m19s 36m00s
2 0 2 0 August 11, 2016 - 14:35 PDT 40m10s 54m52s
0 2 0 2 August 12, 2016 - 10:55 PDT 47m31s  54m06s
2 0 2 0 August 12, 2016 - 16:05 PDT 49m04s   47m52s
1 2 1 2 August 13, 2016 - 10:55 PDT 35m27s 45m03s  48m55s
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