IESF World Championship 2023
IESF World Championship 2023 is an annual Dota 2 tournament organised by the International Esports Federation. The event is a competition between national teams for the prize money.
The IESF World Championship Series was launched in 2014 before taking a pause and returning to the professional scene in 2019. In 2020, with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, the organisers had to abandon the LAN format. Instead, they held a series of regional tournaments.
Match schedule
Bracket
Group play
Overview of IESF World Championship 2023: participants and prize pool
The tournament will start on 25 August this year and continue until 3 September. The host city will be Iasi, Romania. A total of 16 national teams are expected to take part in the tournament. So far, two countries are known, namely Romania as the host country, as well as Indonesia, which became the champion of the IESF World Championship 2022.
The names of the other countries will be known after the series of qualifiers. 2 slots will be allocated to Africa, 3 to the Americas, 4 to Europe and the biggest number of national teams from Asia and Oceania. There will be 5 slots up for grabs.
The prize money for the IESF World Championship 2023 will be $100,000. The champion will collect the main prize of $50,000, the silver medallist will receive $30,000 and the team that finishes third will earn $20,000.
Format of IESF World Championship 2023
The tournament will be divided into two rounds - group stage and play-offs. The group stage will be a Single Round Robin format and there will be four groups of four teams. The match format is bo1.
The 12 teams will advance to the play-off phase, which will be played as a Double-Elimination grid. All matches except grand final will be played as bo3. The champion will be decided by the results of a bo5 showdown.
Where to watch IESF World Championship 2023
You will find all IESF World Championship 2023 matches at EGamersWorld. There will also be multi-language Dota 2 streams and match live scoring available, while our editors will provide detailed analysis and predictions for all tournament games.