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MDL Chengdu Major has hit the halfway mark -- eight teams down, eight left standing.
The remaining teams at MDL Chengdu Major have secured top eight placements. They will go home with nothing less than a whopping 450 DPC points and are still in contention for the grand prize and title honors.
Unfortunately, that doesn't include Fnatic or Fighting Pandas who both took a hit yesterday. Fnatic took a fast and furious one-sided victory over Invictus Gaming in just 22 minutes, taking the lead in their series. The second two games belonged all to iG though, as they came out very aggressive against Fnatic's late-game carries and gave the SEA no room to breathe or farm enough to allow their carry to come online. With the reverse sweep, iG progressed further in the playoffs.
beastcoast gave a very dominant first game performance, overpowering EE and Company in just 26 minutes. Taking one of their signature heroes - WraithKing in the second game, beastcoast constantly punished Fighting Pandas for their mistake. Bad fight after bad fight was enough for the NA team to succumb to the South American sweethearts. In a 2:0 sweep beastcoast secured another top 8 finish after TI9 to prove they are from among the best of the best.
After a day off, the action resumes with three sets of best-of-three lower bracket elimination series.
MDL Chengdu Major Teams
Alliance
Team Liquid
Vici Gaming
Team Aster
EHOME
Gambit
Team Spirit
Fnatic
TNC Predator
Team Adroit
Evil Geniuses
Fighting Pandas
J.Storm
beastcoast
Team Unknown
Invictus Gaming
MDL Chengdu Major Main Event Format
16 team Double Elimination with 8 starting in Lower Bracket
Bo1 matches for 1st round of the lower bracket
Bo5 finals
Bo3 every other game
MDL Chengdu Major prize pool and point distribution
Place
Prize pool
Points
1
$300,000
4850
2
$160,000
3000
3
$110,000
2100
4
$80,000
1350
5-6
$60,000
900
5-6
$60,000
900
7-8
$40,000
450
7-8
$40,000
450
9-12 Fighting Pandas
$20,000
150
9-12 Fnatic
$20,000
150
9-12 Team Aster
$20,000
150
9-12 EHOME
$20,000
150
13-16 Gambit
$12,500
100
13-16 Team Spirit
$12,500
100
13-16 Team Adroit
$12,500
100
13-16 Team Unknown
$12,500
100
MDL Chengdu Major
MDL is holding it's 10th iteration of events in Chengdu, Sichuan on November 16-24th. This is the first Major of the season for teams on the road to TI2020. Sixteen teams —15 teams determined via qualifiers and the lucky winner of the BTS Dota Summit Minor —are batteling it out for the lion's share of the $1,000,00,000 prize pool and 15,000 DPC points.
