The Dota2Danger Cup is a new online tournament aimed at lower tier teams with the main purpose of creating a real competitive environment for them in order to grow and develop their players.

Despite the rather small prize pool for its first edition, only $3,500, Dota2Danger gathered 16 teams and will kick off the first season today, 26th of September with a closed qualifier group stage.

The 16 teams are split into four groups where they’ll be playing in a round robin, two games series format, in order to determine the top two finishers in each group. A clear 2-0 victory brings 3 points while a draw scored will grant 1 point. The top two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs stage, which is scheduled to commence on October 13.

Dota2Danger Cup groups:

Group AGroup B Comanche

Team Bad English

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

NoLifer5

Fantastic Five

GUS Gaming

Sanguine Sharks

Valkyrie

Group CGroup D

D2DANGER

Prodota Gaming

Sweet Boys

go2olymp

Yellow Submarine

FlipSid3 Tactics

BrooDMotherS

Power Rangers

At the end of the group stage, the eight qualified teams for the playoffs will fight in a double elimination bracket where all the matches are best-of-three, except the first two losers’ bracket rounds that are bo1 and the bo5 Grand Finals.

Dota2Danger Cup prize pool distribution:

1st place: $2,000       
2nd place: $1,000
3rd place: $500

The entire event will be broadcast on Hitbox in English by TeaTime and Russian by UCC Studio.