Beginning from the 16th of October, Na`Vi and Virtus.Pro will collaborate to host the Dota 2 Champions League, an online tournament boasting $50,000 as their base prize pool and more interestingly, winning teams will also benefit from 25% of the total DotaTV ticket sales.

The approach to the Dota 2 Champions League is indeed unique considering no other large scale tournaments offered to share their direct profit with the players. In Na`Vi's CEO, Alexander 'ZeroGravity' Kohanovsky's official statement, he said, "We believe that players and teams need to receive additional bonuses for participating in such projects, which will stimulate them to play on 200%.

"We are using Valve’s technique as well, and we are sure that crowdfunding should become a part of any big tournament."

The main reason why Na`Vi and and Virtus.Pro worked together on this project can be best explained by Anton 'Sneg1' Cherepennikov, CEO of Virtus.Pro. "All the workers of our project, starting with the management, play DotA and really like the game. When we planned the league, our main goal was making a quality product for both viewers and participants.

"Cooperated work by people from competing organization gives us more responsibility, which will be a good motivation to reach the goal. The league will be an example as well, proving the benefits from cooperated work of eSports clubs and, I hope so, in the future will serve as an additional argument in favor of creating full-scale clubs federations, about necessity of which we are talking for such a long time," added Cherepennikov.

Not much details were given in the official announcement apart from the start date, end date and format. The tournament will begin on October 16 and will run two months before ending on December 12.
 

Format:

Groupstage - 2 groups, 5 teams. Points counted per game.
Tiebreaker - 2nd and 3rd placer of each groups play a bo3 match to determine who gets into the playoffs.
Playoffs - Best-of-five.


Prize pool breakdown:

1. $25,000
2. $15,000
3. $7,000
4. $3,000

Source: Na`Vi Gaming