BetBoom Team and PARIVISION advanced to Sunday’s grand final with semifinal victories at the Esports World Cup Dota 2 tournament in Paris.
Vici Gaming and Team Yandex, which lost in Saturday’s playoffs, will play in the third-place match earlier Sunday.
The Dota 2 event at the Esports World Cup is the final championship of the ESL Pro Tour, now in its fourth season. The tournament has a $2 million prize pool, with $750,000 and 1,000 EWC club points going to the first-place team.
The format consists of three phases: a group stage of 24 teams that competed in a round robin, a survival phase (Tuesday-Wednesday) formatted into a single-elimination bracket that saw four teams advance, then a final playoff stage (Thursday-Sunday), which is single elimination.
The four group winners advanced directly to the playoffs. Teams finishing second through fourth in their groups went to the survival stage, a two-round bracket that decided the other four teams to make the playoff field of eight.
All matches in Phase 1 were two games, while the matches in Phases 2 and 3 are best-of-three until the best-of-five grand final.
On Saturday, BetBoom Team swept Vici Gaming 2-0, winning in 30 minutes on red and 45 minutes on green. BetBoom was paced by Danil “gpk” Skutin of Russia with a 16-3-27 kill-death-assist ratio across the two maps; Matvey “MieRo” Vasyunin of Russia with a 13-1-25 K-D-A; and Vitalie “Save-” Melnic of Moldova with a 9-0-30 K-D-A.
PARIVISION outlasted Team Yandex 2-1 in the other semifinal. PARIVISION captured the opening map in 31 minutes on green, then Yandex drew level with a 66-minute victory on red. PARIVISION closed out with a 38-minute win on green.
The cause for PARIVISION was led by Alan “Satanic” Gallyamov of Russia with a 26-8-26 K-D-A; Volodymyr “No(o)ne-” Minenko of Ukraine with a 28-7-38 K-D-A; and Evgeniy “Noticed” Ignatenko of Russia with a ratio of 23-6-41.
Dota 2 Esports World Cup payouts (prize money, EWC club points)
1. $750,000, 1,000 — TBD
2. $340,000, 750 — TBD
3. $200,000, 500 — TBD
4. $120,000, 300 — TBD
5-8. $70,000, 200 — Team Spirit, Rune Eaters, Nigma Galaxy, Team Falcons
9-12. $40,000, 0 — LGD Gaming, 1w, Team Liquid, Aurora Gaming
13-16. $20,000, 0 — MOUZ, Xtreme Gaming, Virtus.pro, PlayTime
17-20. $10,000, 0 — GamerLegion, Level UP, REKONIX, OG
21-24. $7,500, 0 — Poor Rangers, L1 Team, Team Nemesis, Inner Circle x Insanity
–Field Level Media
