The International 2016 Invites Announced
Fresh off the finals of ESL One Frankfurt, Valve have announced the teams directly invited to this year’s The International Dota 2 Championships on August 3 – 13, and its upcoming regional qualifiers.
In a departure from previous Valve events, only six teams have been directly invited to Seattle. All of the Manila Major’s top 4 were invited, as well as 5th-6th place finisher MVP Phoenix and 7th-8th place finisher Natus Vincere. Notably absent are the teams they tied with, Fnatic and Vici Gaming Reborn respectively, who will be competing in the regional qualifiers instead.
A format qualifying the top two teams of each of the regional qualifiers from the Frankfurt and Shanghai Majors as well as two ‘Wild Card’ teams from previous The Internationals will be used to decide the remaining slots. Each regional qualifier will have 8 invited teams and 2 teams from the Open Qualifiers on June 21 – 24, save for the Americas region where only six teams were eligible to be invited. The regional qualifiers themselves take place on June 25 – 28.
For full details on the invites, one can check the official website.
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