The eight teams invited to TI 2025 will be joined by eight teams to cross the regional qualifying round, scheduled to take place in June.

Dota 2 developer, Valve Software, has revealed the list of teams invited directly and regional qualifying schedule for The International (TI) 2025 - this year's version of the Annual World Championship Dota 2 - Thursday (May 15).

Like the previous versions of the tournament, TI 2025 will give tickets directly to the eight teams with the best achievement up to the present time of the year, with the defending champion team, the Liquid team leads the list. Accompanying them are Tundra Esports, Team Falcons and Gainin Gladiators from Western Europe; Parivision, Betboom Team and Team Spirit from Eastern Europe; Like TideBound team from China.

These eight direct invited teams will be joined by eight teams from the regional qualifier to complete the list of 16 teams competing at this year's Aegis of Champions. The TI area of ​​TI area 2025 will be held from June 4 to 17, with three batches consisting of two simultaneous areas.

Two teams from Western Europe and Southeast Asia will win tickets to TI TI 2025 through regional qualifying, while Eastern Europe, China, North America and South America will have each area. The TI TI area qualifying schedule 2025, as well as the list of participating teams in each area, is listed below:

Eastern Europe and South America (June 4 to 8)

Eastern Europe (1 capacity)

• Aurora Gaming
• Natus Vincere
• Navi Junior
• One Move
• L1GA Team
• Virtus.pro
• (+4 teams from open qualifiers)

South America (1 capacity)

• Heroic
• OG.Latam
• Edge
• Team Den
• (+6 teams from open qualifiers)

China and North America (June 9 to 12)

North America (1 capacity)

• Shopify Rebellion
• Wildcard
• (+6 teams from open qualifiers)

China (1 capacity)

• Xtreme Gaming
• Yakult Brothers
• (+6 teams from open qualifiers)

Southeast Asia and Western Europe (June 13 to June 17)

Western Europe (2 capacity)

• Nigma Galaxy
• Mouz
• OG
• Avulus
• (+6 teams from open qualifiers)

Southeast Asia (2 capacity)

• Talon
• Boom esports
• Trailer Park Boys
• The Mongolz
• Ivory
• Execration
• (+4 teams from open qualifiers)

TI 2025 is scheduled to take place from September 4 to 14 in Hamburg, Germany, with the playoffs round held at Barclays Arena. This will be the first time since the opening version of Ti in 2011, the Dota 2 World Championship was held in Germany. Ti 2011 was the place where Dota was officially launched in the world for the first time through a US $ 1 million tournament - something unprecedented in the field of electronic sports at that time.

TI 2025 will be divided into two separate stages: The Road to the International and The International, along with a new group group group group. The Road to the International will include the Swiss format group stage and special qualifying, while The International will officially include the playoffs.

The group stage and special qualifying round of TI 2025 will take place from 4 to 7 September. The new Swiss format group stage will include 16 teams playing in a Swiss branch of five rounds, all in the BO3 format. The teams need to win four victories to enter the Playoffs, while the four losing teams will be eliminated. The three teams will go straight to the playoffs and the three teams are eliminated after the group stage.

The remaining 10 teams will continue to play in the special qualifying round, where high seed teams will face low seed teams. Winning teams will win the right to playoffs, and the losing team will be eliminated. In total, this year The Road to The International will select eight teams to enter The International and break up with the other eight teams.

The official International, the playoffs, will take place from 11 to 14 September, and still keep the familiar double format that fans are so familiar with. However, instead of some teams starting in the losing branch like the previous versions, the TI 2025 playoffs will allow all eight teams to start at the Branch.

As usual, the matchoffs matches of TI 2025 will follow the BO3 formula, except for the final final will be a series of bo5s to compete for the championship with the prestigious Aegis of Champions.