Shanghai Major Qualifiers groups released

The Shanghai Major Qualifiers groups have been revealed, giving a glimpse into the first phase of the regional qualifiers scheduled between January 7-10. All four regions will be competing over the course of four days, and two teams from each region will qualify for the Shanghai Major set to take place between March 2-6, at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, in China. OG, Team Secret, Evil Geniuses, EHOME, ViCi Gaming, CDEC, Virtus.Pro and Alliance have already been directly invited to the event.

While the second round of the Shanghai Major Open Qualifiers is still taking place today and tomorrow, the Shanghai Major Qualifiers groups are starting to take shape.

Valve has released the groups for each of the four regions.

Each region consists of two round robin groups of five teams. The top two teams from each group will advance to a double elimination bracket.

All matches will be best-of-one.

The winner and runner-up of each region will be invited to The Shanghai Major.

Shanghai Major Qualifiers groups: Europe (January 7-10):

Dota 2 Shanghai Major Qualifiers groups, courtesy of Dota2RUHUB

Group A

• HellRaisers
• Team Empire
• Team Spirit
• Na’Vi
• MamasBoys (winner of the EU Open Qualifiers #1)

Group B

• Vega Squadron
• Elements
• Team Liquid
• Fantastic 5
• Winner of the EU Open Qualifiers #2

Shanghai Major Qualifiers Groups: China (January 7-10):

Dota 2 Shanghai Major Qualifiers groups, courtesy of Dota2RUHUB

Group A

• IG
• LGD Gaming
• FanTuan
• IG.Vitality
• Winner of the CN Open Qualifiers #2

Group B

• Newbee
• CDEC.Youth
• Wings Gaming
• Newbee.Young
• CDEC.A (winner of the CN Open Qualifiers #1)

Shanghai Major Qualifiers groups: Americas (January 7-10):

Dota 2 Shanghai Major Qualifiers groups, courtesy of Dota2RUHUB

Group A

• Leviathan
• Digital Chaos
• Archon
• Void Boys
• Winner of the Americas Open Qualifiers #2

Group B

• compLexity
• Shazam
• Power of Friendship
• Not Today
• Team Freedom (winner of the Americas Open Qualifiers #1)

Shanghai Major Qualifiers Groups SEA(January 7-10th):

Dota 2 Shanghai Major Qualifiers Groups courtesy of Dota2RUHUB

Group A

• SatuDuaTiga
• Mineski
• TnC
• First Departure
• Winner SEA Open Qualifiers #2

Group B

• MVP.Phoenix
• XCTN
• Signature.Trust
• Fnatic
• Mineski-X (winner of the SEA Open Qualifiers #1)

The Shanghai Major

The second Dota 2 Major will be held in Shanghai, China, at the Mercedes-Benz Arena – an indoor arena located on the former grounds of Expo 2010 in Pudong, Shanghai, China, with a seating capacity for 18,000 people. The total prize-pool of $3,000,000 is a fixed amount and Perfect World will be in charge of production.

Perfect World and MarsTV had partnered up to organize The Dota 2 Asia Championships (DAC) in January-February 2015, known to some as “The International of the East”. The tournament was set up to be very similar to The International. The starting prize fund was set at $250,000 USD, but through crowdfunding of compendium sales, the prize-pool reached $3,057,519.

Perfect World also hosted The International 5 Chinese qualifiers.