MDL Chengdu Major 2019
The first Major tournament of the season 2019/2020.
Match schedule
Bracket
Group play
The general information
MDL Chengdu Major 2019 will take place in Chengdu, China on November 16-24. The overall prize pool of the event will amount $980,000, $300,000 of which will go to a winner.
Participants of the championship
16 teams from different divisions will work on the distribution of grabs. Europe, CIS, and China will receive 3 invites to regional qualifiers, while North America and Southeast Asia will have 2. Only one invitation was detached for South America. The sixteenth quota will be taken by the winner of the Minor championship DOTA Summit 11.
The distribution of the prize pool
- 1st place: $300,000 and 4,850 points
- 2nd place: $160,000 and 3,000 points
- 3rd place: $110,00 and 2,100 points
- 4th place: $80,000 and 1,350 points
- 5th-6th place: $60,000 and 900 points
- 7th-8th place: $40,000 and 450 points
- 9th-12th place: $20,000 and 150 points
- 13th-16th place: $12,500 and 100 points
The format of the tournament
The championship will start with the group stage. There, 16 teams will be divided into 4 groups with 4 participants in each one where they will be playing by a GSL system (double-elimination). The top two rosters will be decided from each four, which will go to the upper playoff bracket. Teams to show worse results will start their way in the lower bracket of the next stage.
Teams will fight in a double-elimination bracket in the final stage. The first matches of the lower bracket will be hosted in a bo1 format, while the rest of the matches, except for the grand final, will be carried out in a bo3 series. The last battle between the top 2 teams will be carried out in a bo5 format.