The thirteen season of Starladder is already well advanced with the regional qualifier process and the first to decide its top three teams that will make the travel to Minsk, Belarus where the final stage will take place, is China.

The third stage of the Chinese qualifiers for Starladder i-League will see twelve teams spread in upper and lower brackets according to their performance in the previous qualifier stage.

Among the upper bracket teams are the recent fourth place finishers at the Frankfurt Major, EHOME along with LGD Gaming and Invictus Gaming who missed this seasons Major due to passport issues.

While upper bracket if stuffed with big names in the scene, the lower bracket features only the new Chinese talents and it will be interesting to see if any of them, will grab one of the three spots available for the Minsk LAN event.

For this thirteen edition, Starladder partnered with the prestigious Chinese video production company, ImbaTv to bring us bigger live event experience and better price money for the participating teams.

Twelve qualified squads plus a couple of directly invited ones will face each other at the Minsk Arena, one of the most modern and multifunctional buildings in Europe, from 13th to 17th of January for a $300,000 starting prize pool.

Prize pool distribution:
1st place: $120 000
2nd place: $60 000
3rd-4th places: $30 000
5th-6th places: $15 000
7th-12th places: $5 000

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