OGA Dota PIT Season 1
Match schedule
OGA Dota PIT 2020 Online is a new virtual tournament that replaced the canceled OGA Dota PIT Online 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The championship starts on 1 May and hosts three regions with the prize pool of 210 thousand dollars. China plays separately while Europe and CIS are fighting together as the difference in the ping is not considerable.
China starts first
The tournament starts on 1 May in the Chinese region. Europe and CIS will join later as many teams are still taking part in WePlay! Pushka League and Epic Prime League. Eight teams receiving direct invitations from organizers will be fighting for 60 thousand dollars:
- RNG;
- Aster;
- Keen Gaming;
- LGD;
- EHOME;
- IG;
- Vici Gaming;
- Newbee (refused);
- CDEC Gaming (substitute);
- Sirius (substitute).
Newbee refused to participate, so CDEC Gaming and Sirius will be fighting for the last slot. The teams will get divided into two groups with four participants in each. On the first stage, the matches will be happening up to two wins by the Round Robin system. The first place in the group will make it to the upper part of the playoff, the second and the third ones to its lower part. The team at the last place gets kicked out from the event winning 2 thousand dollars. The final matches will be happening on 10 May, the grand final will finish with three wins (Bo5).
The Chinese region is unpredictable due to analytics and tips for matches. Everybody remembers open qualifiers for ESL One Los-Angeles 2020 where PSG.LGD was not able to deal with Blaze. And now the players are the favorites of the tournament having gotten in good shape during the season. The second challengers is Vici Gaming. The teams already met at DPL-CDA where the winner was PSG.LGD with the score of 2-0. Both rosters are likely to pass to the upper bracket and make it to the final.
A real fierce fight will be happening between the rest of the teams that will pass to the low bracket. Every team has a chance to make it to the grand final and fight with the winner of the upper bracket. Only Sirius is not to surprise us as the team made Li ‘ASD’ Zhiwen their midder, took former carry of PSG.LGD, and also Keen Gaming that changed three members of the roster.
Europe and CIS
The organizers has not reported about the invited teams from Europe and CIS yet. ANd the same with the holding date. The information will be available after the end of the competition in the Chinese region. However, now we can claim that invites were given to the teams that showed themselves well at Pushka League:
- Virtus.pro;
- Team Secret;
- Alliance;
- Team Liquid;
- HellRaisers;
As for any prediction for CIS and Europe, the bears have finally found their aggressive play style replacing Cooman by iLTW. Virtus.pro won ESL One Los-Angeles 2020 and now the gamers show great results at the current competition. Team Secret keeps on performing well taking the highest positions in the groups and playoff. They are followed by Alliance and Team Liquid. But the true revelation for our region was the team VP.Prodigy that broke into open qualifiers for Pushka League and has already made it to the playoff. Now we just should hope that the young roster representing Virtus.pro will keep on playing in the same way and get an invitation to OGA Dota PIT 2020 Online.