WePlay AniMajor Begins Tomorrow with Wild Card
WePlay AniMajor Begins Tomorrow with Wild Card
This season’s second and final Dota 2 major event – WePlay AniMajor – begins already tomorrow. The tournament’s first stage – Wild Card – will last only two days and determine two teams that will advance to the group stage.
Among Wild Card participants are Team Nigma and Team Secret from Western Europe, Vici Gaming and Invictus Gaming from China, as well as Execration from Southeast Asia and AS Monaco Gambit from Eastern Europe. These teams will compete in a round-robin format with best-of-two series. The schedule looks as follows (UK time):
June 2nd
- 12:00 PM: Secret vs Gambit / Vici vs Nigma
- 2:00 PM: Execration vs IG / Nigma vs Gambit
- 4:00 PM: Vici vs Secret / Gambit vs Execration
- 6:00 PM: Nigma vs IG / Execration vs Vici
June 3rd
- 12:00 PM: Vici vs Gambit / Execration vs Secret
- 2:00 PM: Execration vs Nigma / IG vs Vici
- 4:00 PM: Nigma vs Secret / IG vs Gambit
- 6:00 PM: IG vs Secret
Two winners of the Wild Card stage will advance to the Group Stage (June 4th – 7th), where they will compete with Team Liquid, PSG.LGD, TNC Predator, Team Spirit, Evil Geniuses and Beastcoast. Meanwhile the leaders of the regional DPC leagues, among which Alliance, Team Aster, T1, Virtus.pro, Quincy Crew and NoPing e-sports will start competing from the Playoffs Stage (June 9th – 13th).
WePlay AniMajor will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, without live audience. The tournament features $500,000 in prize money and 2700 DPC points up for grabs. The matches will be streamed on Twitch on this and this channels.