• Best of five series between Quantic Gaming and RattleSnake
  • Winning team becomes the sixteenth and final team to compete in The International

A coin toss decides which team has 'Selection Priority'. The team with Selection Priority gets to either pick their side of the map or the drafting order. At the start of the next game, the team that lost the coin toss will have Selection Priority.
It alternates until Game 5 where another coin toss is done.

  • Two groups of eight teams
  • Each series is two games against the same opponent
  • The order of team matchups is random

In each series, a coin toss decides which team has Selection Priority. The team with Selection Priority gets to either pick their side of the map or the drafting order. At the start of the next game, the team that lost the coin toss will have Selection Priority.

Extra Games: If teams tie along the Upper and Lower Bracket divider, more games will be played to determine seed.

Other seeds are resolved with the following steps:
1- Compare the matchup history of these teams
2- Compare their wins vs the seed right below them. Repeat until resolved
3- Coin toss

The 1st place in each group picks their opponent from either the 3rd or 4th place finish in the opposite group.

Upper Bracket

  • Upper Bracket A: Group A Seed 1 vs Group B Seed 3/4
  • Upper Bracket B: Group B Seed 2 vs Group A Seed 3/4 (The team Group B Seed 1 didn't choose)
  • Upper Bracket C: Group B Seed 1 vs Group A Seed 3/4
  • Upper Bracket D: Group A Seed 2 vs Group B Seed 3/4 (The team Group A Seed 1 didn't choose)

First Round: The higher seed has Selection Priority for game one and then alternates for game two. If it goes to a third game, the higher seed has Selection Priority again.

Other Rounds: Selection Priority is determined by total games W-L record of the Main Event. If it is tied, a coin toss determines it.

All Upper Bracket games are Best of Three. Grand Final is Best of Five, no game advantage.

Lower Bracket

  • Lower Bracket A: Group A Seed 5vs Group B Seed 7/8
  • Lower Bracket B: Group B Seed 6 vs Group A Seed 7/8 (The team Group B Seed 5 didn't choose)
  • Lower Bracket C: Group B Seed 5 vs Group A Seed 7/8
  • Lower Bracket D: Group A Seed 6 vs Group B Seed 7/8 (The team Group A Seed 5 didn't choose)

Same choosing order rules as Upper Bracket, except when a Lower Bracket team faces a team that is or was previously in the Upper Bracket, the Upper Bracket team has initial Selection Priority.

Lower Bracket games are Best of One until Round 4 where they become Best of Three games.

  • Eight player, One vs One tournament
  • Best of three series
  • Single elimination
  • The game is won when a player has 2 hero kills or 2 tower kills
  • Coin toss decides side, then alternates
  • Each player starts with a courier

Draft rules:
Every game is a mirror match, meaning that each player plays the same hero.
Each player picks their two favorite heroes (their first and second choice). Shadow Fiend not allowed as one of these, he is always used if a third game is needed.

Example:
If both players pick four different heroes, the first choice of each is done for game 1 and 2.
If only one is the same, the ones that are not the same are used.


    Not Allowed:
  • Jungling
  • Major creep blocks/reroutes (like Fissure)
  • Soul Ring

    Allowed:
  • Runes and Bottle Crowing
  • Upgrading Courier