Teams from Eastern Europe have flocked to Western Europe in the hope of having a better opportunity to win tickets to the Dota World Championship 2 this year.

Regional qualifying for The International (TI) 2025 - Dota 2's annual world championship - taking place. This is the key time in the Dota 2 season when teams compete for eight qualifying to fight for Aegis of Champions.

Naturally, the attention to the Western Europe (WEU), often considered to be the most competitive area in the Dota 2 world. But after the WEU opening qualifying round ended on June 3, the community realized an abnormal composition of the participating teams.

Some of the Eastern European teams (EEU) notably appeared in the open qualifying round of WEU. Including 1win, Yellow Submarine, and more surprisingly Virtus.pro (VP) and Natus Vincere (Navi) Junior. Earlier, VP and Navi Junior rejected the invitation to participate in the EEU closed qualifying round, but registered to attend the open qualifying qualifier in the WEU area.

In the first qualifying round, all three of the WEU qualifiers belong to EEU teams: 1win first -class, Navi Junior Second -class and third -class 4pirates. The second open qualifying round also witnessed the same results as many EEU teams continue to lead. The second ranked VP, Yellow Submarine third -class, with only Team Secret - the second round champion - is the only representative of WEU.

That means that half of the teams in the upcoming WEU qualifying round come from EEU. EEU teams include 1win, Navi Junior, 4pirates, VP and Yellow Submarine will join the World teams invited Nigma Galaxy, Mouz, OG and Avulus in closed qualifying to Friday (June 13).

A strategic state of EEU teams

This massive wave of EEU teams to the Wood region, especially in the qualifying season, is likely to be a strategy to win tickets to the world championship this year. Despite being a strong area, EEU is only Valve - Dota 2 developer - allocating a capacity to TI 2025 through the regional qualifying round. Meanwhile, the Water area has two capacity thanks to its competitive reputation.

At EEU, Aurora Gaming is considered to be the leading candidate to win the only area of ​​the area to TI 2025. Although only in March, Aurora has continuously reached the top 6 in the three recent Tier 1 prizes, including the impressive fourth place at Dreamleague season 26. When Aurora is almost sure to win the EEU qualifier, many weaker teams have shifted in the area that has shifted in the area that has shifted to the w and can take the w and can take the waistline, it can take the WEU elimination direction, it can take the w and can take the w and can take the waistline, it can take the w and can take the waistline, it can take the WEU elimination, it can take the WEU elimination, it can take the WEU elimination, it can take the WEU elimination, it can take the w and can take the w and can take the w and can take the waistline, it can take the w and can take the WEU elimination. Additional capacity of this area.

That decision proved to be wise when Aurora won the Eeu Ti 2025 qualifier in an overwhelming way, losing only one match on the journey to win tickets to the biggest tournament of the year.

In addition, most of the strongest teams of World have been invited directly to TI 2025, leaving a relatively closed qualifying group. OG has just changed the entire squad after the poor performance at Fissure Universe Episode 5: Play in. Mouz, under the guidance of veteran captain Melchior "Seleri" Hillenkamp, ​​also played unsuccessful in that tournament. Although Nigma Galaxy and Avulus are somewhat more stable when constantly winning tickets to the tournaments, both do not show the recent impressive performance.

We will have to wait to see how everything will happen when the WEU qualifier starts, from 13 to 17/6. The four teams invited and six teams overcome the open qualifying round will play in the winning branch - the losing branch with the BO3 format, except for the final final will be the full Bo5.

The two strongest teams will win tickets to TI 2025 and join the invited team directly: Team Liquid, Tundra Esports, Team Falcons, and Gainin Gladiators from Western Europe; Parivision, Betboom Team, and Team Spirit from Eastern Europe; Along with All Gamers Global (formerly the TideBound team) from China.

TI 2025 will take place in Hamburg, Germany, from September 4 to 14, gathering 16 strongest teams in the world to compete for the world championship and great reward (not yet announced).