Team Empire seized title for Global Grand Master

Team Empire clinched their first championship title in months – wiping out Vega Squadron 3:0 in the Grand Finals of the Global Grand Master last night. The CIS team will walk away with the $25,000 prize and hopes for a better upcoming season.

Team Empire seemed to easily wipe the floor clean with Vega Squadron with their overwhelming 3:0 victory in the Grand Finals.

Coming into the series with a one game win advantage after advancing through the upper brackets – they wasted no time in tearing into their CIS counterparts. Despite Vega having the advantage in the first match and a fantastic game played by Andrey “Mag” Chipenko on his signature Broodmother, it was Dmitry “Undershock” Kostrov’s storm spirit that stole the show and the victory out from under them.

The second game lasted a mere 21 minutes and was an easy and convincing victory for Team Empire with their Drow Ranger-Medusa Core combo.

Team Empire’s last title was obtained for BTS 2 in February. The CIS team released Roman “Scandal” Sadotenkov from their lineup July 13th and have since been playing with stand-ins.

Global Grand Master main event

After multiple seasons of the ProDota Cup for Europe and North America, ProDotA organized their first top tier event – Global Grand Master featuring Tier 1 teams and $50,000 prize pool.

Eight teams competed in a double elimination playoff bracket that kicked off earlier this month.

Global Grand Master teams

• Alliance – directly invited
• Team Liquid* – directly invited
• Team Empire** – directly invited
• Vega Squadron – directly invited
• Escape Gaming – from closed qualifiers
• Ad Finem – from closed qualifiers
• Flipsid3 Tactics – from closed qualifiers
• Power Rangers – from closed qualifiers

*Team Liquid withdrew from the event after the quarter finals allowing Power Rangers to continue in the upper brackets after losing to Team Liquid just before they pulled out of the event.

**Team Empire replaced Na’Vi as one of the four invited teams.

Global Grand Master main event format

Global Grand Master prize pool

Global Grand Masters prize pool distribution:

• 1st place:$25,000 – Team Empire
• 2nd place: $12,500 – Vega Squadron
• 3rd place: $7,500 – Alliance
• 4th place: $5,000 – Power Rangers

ProDota Cup

ProDota Cup is currently in the seventh season for the North American Region and ninth season for Europe. Previous seasons have been ongoing monthly with success and Samuel “sammy” Manuelson has told Dotablast that the monthly series is expected to be ongoing until at least December 2017.

Infamous seized ProDota Cup Americas 6 title when they bested Void Boys 3:1 in the Grand Finals. ProDota Gaming seized their second series title when they bested Elements Pro Gaming 3:1 in the ProDota Cup Europe 8 title last season.