SEA Dota loses one team before the tournament even starts.

For the longest time, the final boss in any esports competition has been the Visa process. And for PGL Wallachia Season 1, he has already claimed two victims. Much like Tundra Esports, from Western Europe, the Southeast Asia representative Blacklist International have faced the same issues in securing the travel documents for all their members and will not be able to take the trip to Bucharest, Romania for the $1,000,000 tournament.

According to PGL, the tournament organiser, none of the other Southeast Asia teams were able to confirm their participation due to the same Visa issues therefore, the spot went to Azure Ray, the second placed team in the China regional qualifiers for the tournament.

With Blacklist International having to watch the event from home, SEA fans are left with just Aurora in the competition. PGL Wallachia Season 1 is bound to start this coming Friday, May 10, 2024, with a total of 16 teams entering the battle for the championship title. Due to the latest change in the teams line-up, China will be fighting with three teams for the championship title.  Azure Ray are joining the already qualified G2.iG roster and Xtreme Gaming, who have been granted a direct invite to the event.

PGL Wallachia Season 1 is the first event planned in a three-year plan from PGL that includes eight Dota 2 tournaments, each with one million dollars on the line, to be held across 2024, 2025, and 2026. The tournament will run behind closed doors in Bucharest, Romania, with no live audience. 

PGL Wallachia Season 1

Directly invited teams

Team Falcons  
Team Liquid  
Team Secret  
Gaimin Gladiators  
Team Spirit  
BetBoom Team  
Xtreme Gaming  
Aurora Gaming  
Shopify Rebellion  
Heroic

Qualified teams

Tundra Esports (WEU qualifiers) /replaced by MOUZ 
Virtus.pro (EEU qualifiers)  
G2.iG (China qualifiers)  
Blacklist International (SEA qualifiers)  / replaced by Azure Ray
nouns (NA qualifiers)  
BOOM Esports (SA qualifiers)

The tournament starts with a five-round group stage played on a modified Swiss-system that will eliminate half of the teams. At the end of the five-round battle, the top eight teams will make the cut to the playoffs which will run until May 19, when the champions will be determined in a best-of-five grand final.