Dota 2 Championships Day Five roundup: Virtus Pro, Vici Gaming eliminated

This is it! The final day of the Dota 2 worldwide has arrived! The 20-player mode was played in the new client, the Dota 2 Reborn/Source 2.0 client, which has become quite popular for its custom games. They beat out CDEC in three out of four matches.

The pros still have two days to stake their claim on over 18 million dollars in prize money at the tournament. “I think we’re all just super-pumped right now”, said the team’s spokesman. They plan to “go outside and get rid of this pasty monitor tan”. VP had not looked good at all during their series against CompLexity, and they were going up against on of the strongest teams at this tournament in Team Secret. CDEC play EG in the upper bracket final. Here are the final brackets, for anyone that missed them, courtesy of the official Dota 2 global website. The first tournament was held in 2011, and the prize pool has grown steadily since then.

Dota 2 is a fiercely competitive MOBA that Valve‘s developers have spent years balancing and rebalancing to suit the standard 5-v-5 structure, so throwing so many players into a single match is effectively throwing the game’s finely tuned structure out the window. The first is that viewers were treated to an extended collective hallucination where it appeared that 20 players were all playing in a single game of Dota at once and nothing made any sense anymore.