Tundra Esports maintained their perfect record with two wins on Wednesday as the BLAST Slam V’s group stage continued.
Victories over Natus Vincere and Tearlaments left Tundra Esports alone in first place at 4-0. MOUZ won two of their three Wednesday matches to sit at 4-1, tied for second place with Team Falcons, who swept two Wednesday matches.
The $1 million Dota 2 event is starting with 12 teams competing in a round-robin of single-map matches. The top two teams in the group-stage standings move straight into the playoff semifinals, while the next six teams head to a play-in event. Teams that come in ninth through 12th will compete in a last-chance playoff on Sunday.
One team will advance out of the last-chance playoff into the play-in event, also on Sunday. Four head-to-head, best-of-three play-in matches will be held, with the four winners earning playoff quarterfinal berths and the other teams eliminated.
The single-elimination playoffs are scheduled for Dec. 5-7 in Chengdu, China. The quarterfinals and semifinals will feature best-of-three matches, and the grand final will be best-of-five.
The championship team will receive $300,000 in prize money and $100,
On Wednesday, Tundra topped Natus Vincere in 47 minutes on red behind a 10-2-11 kill-death-assist ratio from Russia’s Ivan “Pure” Moskalenko. Great Britain’s Matthew “Ari” Walker produced a 7-4-26 K-D-A ratio as Tundra beat Tearlaments in 40 minutes on red.
In other Wednesday matches:
–MOUZ def. OG
–Team Falcons def. Natus Vincere
–MOUZ def. HEROIC
–Team Tidebound def. OG
–Team Falcons def. Xtreme Gaming
–Team Yandex def. HEROIC
–Team Tidebound def. Execration
–Team Yandex def. Tearlaments
–Execration def. Xtreme Gaming
–Yakult Brothers def. Tearlaments
–Team Yandex def. MOUZ
–Natus Vincere def. Yakult Brothers
BLAST Slam V group-stage standings
1. Tundra Esports, 4-0
T2. MOUZ, 4-1
T2. Team Falcons, 4-1
T4. Natus Vincere, 3-2
T4. Team Yandex, 3-2
6. Yakult Brothers, 2-2
T7. Execration, 2-3
T7. OG, 2-3
T7. Team Tidebound, 2-3
10. Xtreme Gaming, 1-3
11. Tearlaments, 1-4
12. HEROIC, 0-4
BLAST Slam V prize pool, with prize money and team earnings
1. $300,000, $100,000
2. $150,000, $50,000
3-4. $60,000, $20,000
5-6. $35,000, $15,000
7-10. $22,500, $6,250
11-12. $10,000, $2,500
–Field Level Media
