The top 16 Dota 2 teams in the world will compete to win its part in the total prize worth US $ 3 million at Esports World Cup 2025.

The focus of DOTA 2 poured to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the next twelve days when the tournament is most anticipated - Dota 2 at the Esports World Cup (EWC) 2025 - officially started.

EWC is a multi -game electronic sports event with a huge total prize of more than $ 70 million - the Dota 2 tournament has occupied one of the largest rewards with US $ 3 million. While the entire event lasts nearly two months and consists of up to 25 different games, the DOTA 2 will be one of the first tournaments, from July 8 to 19.

Stressful matches will take place live at Boulevard Riyadh City, where the world's top Dota 2 teams will confront not only for the title but also to win extremely attractive rewards. Here is all important information you need to know before the tournament starts!

All teams attend

The Dota 2 Prize at EWC will have the presence of the top 16 teams - of which 8 teams are invited directly thanks to the high performance on the ESL Pro Tour (EPT) rankings, and 8 other teams win tickets through the regional qualifying round. The teams with impressive performance during the EPT season, high ranking in tournaments like Dreamleague and ESL One, have accumulated enough points to be present at EWC.

The eight teams are directly invited: Gainmin Gladiators, along with Parivision, Betboom Team, Spirit, Team Falcons, Team Liquid, Tundra Esports, Talon Esports and Aurora Gaming.

The eight teams crossing the regional qualifying round include: Xtreme Gaming (China), Natus Vincere (Western Europe, formerly Natus Vincere Junior), team Yandex (Eastern Europe), Virtus.pro (crossing the Middle East and West Asia), Execrate (Southeast Asia), Shopify Rebellion (North America), South America (South America).

Tournament format
Dota 2 at EWC is divided into three stages: group stage, knockout round, and playoffs. There will be two days off between the knockout round and the playoffs round.

Stage 1: group stage
July 8 - 11
Four groups, each table 4 teams, competing in the circle format BO2
The top team in each table is straight to playoffs
The team ranked second in the second round of the knockout round
The 3rd and 4th teams each in the first round of the knockout round

Stage 2: Live qualifying
July 12 - July 13
Gauntlet format
3rd rank team 4th team in the same table, the losing team is eliminated
The team won against the second team, the losing team was eliminated, the team won the playoffs

Stage 3: Playoffs
July 16 - July 19
Single -category branches + third -class matches
All matches are bo3, the final is Bo5

Total prize and division
DOTA 2 at Esports World Cup owns a total prize of US $ 3 million - one of the largest awards in the event, on par with Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB), Honor of Kings (Hok) and PUBG Mobile.

The tournament will divide the prize for all 16 teams to attend, of which the champion will receive a reward of up to $ 1 million. Below is a complete division of award:

1ST: 1,000,000 USD
2nd: 500,000 USD
3rd: 300,000 USD
4th: 200,000 USD
5th-8th: 125,000 USD
9th-12th: 75,000 USD
13th-16th: 50,000 USD

ORGANIZATION OF LESSONS AND MC at EWC DOTA 2

The tournament has the presence of leading names in the Dota 2 comment industry. In the group stage period, there will be two broadcasting streams with two different talk teams. Below is a full list:

Stream

Neal "Tsunami" Khandheria - Host Theater
Ghassan "Milosh" Finge - Host Theater
Jorien "Sheever" Van der Heijden - Host Analysis
Natalie "Nattea" Mahoney - Host Analysis
Mira "Ephey" RIAD - Analyst
Clinton "fear" Loomis - Analyst
Andrew "Jenkins" Jenkins - Analyst
Dominik "Lacoste" Stipić - Analyst
Brian "BSJ" Canavan - Analyst
Austin "cap" Walsh - Analyst
Avery "SVG" Silverman - commentators
Shannon "Sunsfan" Scotten - commentators
Maurice "Khuzu" Gutmann - commentators
Jake "Siractlacks" Kanner - Content and reporters
Jared "Nomad" Bajina - Interview
Kevin "Purge" Godec - Analysis & Interview
Thread b

Tsunami - Host Analysis
Nomad - Host Analysis table
Mkrdich "MLPDOTA" Zobouian - commentators
Ricky "Rkryptic" Peterson - Commentator
John "Johnxfire" Fernandez - Commentator
Sébastien "Ceb" Debs - commentators

Where to see
All matches are available on VSGG