The prize fund of the tournament is half a million dollars
Today, August 4, the last Major of the 2021/22 season kicks off. Dota 2 – PGL Arlington Major 2022. The tournament will be held in the American city of Arlington, Texas.
The Arlington Major is the last tournament where teams can earn DPC points to directly qualify for The International 11. Thunder Awaken, PSG.LGD, TSM and OG have already secured participation in the main event of the year.
Losses among participants, visa problems and the Ukrainian trace
The tournament in the USA was supposed to play 18 teams that qualified for the PGL Arlington Major following the results of the regional leagues, but the Chinese team Xtreme Gaming withdrew from the major due to visa problems.
Six teams will play with replacements in the roster (OG, Entity, Royal Never Give Up, Talon Esports, Fnatic and Tunder Awaken). The beastcoast trainer also couldn’t get to the USA.
- Western Europe: Tundra Esports, Team Liquid, OG, Entity
- Eastern Europe: Outsiders, Natus Vincere, Team Spirit
- China: Royal Never Give Up, Team Aster, PSG.LGD, Xtreme Gaming
- Yugo-Eastern Asia: BOOM Esports, Talon Esports, Fnatic
- Northern America: Evil Geniuses, Soniqs
- South America: Thunder Awaken, beastcoast
The Major in the USA will not do without representatives of Ukraine. The Ukrainian organization Natus Vincere and six Ukrainian cybersportsmen will take part in the tournament: Vladislav “laise” Lais, Vladimir “No[o]ne” Minenko, Alik “V-Tune” Vorobei (all – NAVI), Miroslav “Mira” Kolpakov, Ilya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk (both – Team Spirit), Artem “Yuragi” Golubev (OG).
Tournament format: group stage and playoffs
17 teams were divided into 2 groups of 9 and 8 teams respectively.
Group BUT: Fnatic, OG, Outsiders, PSG.LGD, Royal Never Give Up, Soniqs, Talon Esports, Team Liquid, Thunder Awaken
Group B: beastcoast, BOOM Esports, Entity, Evil Geniuses, Natus Vincere, Team Aster, Team Spirit, Tundra Esports
🥁 PGL Arlington Major 2022 Group stage draw 🎯#PGLMajor pic.twitter.com/WfU5adk9rv
— PGL (@pglesports) July 27, 2022
PGL Arlington Major group stage matches will be held in the best of 2 format. The top four teams from each group will advance to the upper bracket of the playoffs, the teams that take fifth-sixth places will advance to the lower bracket. Teams that take 7th-8th/9th places will finish their performance at the Major.
Almost all Major playoff matches will be played in the best of 3 format (up to two wins). An exception will be the grand final of the tournament, for which the best of 5 format (up to three wins) is provided.
The total prize fund of the tournament will be $500,000 and 4,570 DPC points.
PGL Arlington Major schedule and live streams
The group stage of the Major will take place from 4 to 8 August. Thursday’s matchday will start at 18:00 Kyiv time with four Group A matches:
Soniqs-Liquid
Outsiders – Royal Never Give Up
Fnatic-OG
PSG.LGD-Talon
Twitch links are correct now 🫢 pic.twitter.com/Ywvc8ewOrC
— PGL (@pglesports) July 28, 2022
In total, 16 matches will take place on the first game day. See the full schedule of the group stage link.
The PGL Arlington Major will be broadcast in Ukrainian by Maincast. The studio will show all matches of the tournament live on Twitch.
Source: Sportarena
