$6,000 Russian DOTA 2 League to kick off 20 March

 

 

A new DOTA 2 tournament has been announced with a $6,000 prize pool with a list of participating teams including Natus Vincere, Empire and Fnatic. Hosted by Virtus Pro and Ritmix, the Russian DOTA 2 League (RDL) aims to bring together the best teams from the European and North American scene with live coverage in over five languages. The first matches begin on 20 March. 

 

RDL will be run from 20 to 30 March and feature a best-of-three double elimination bracket. A list of the teams invited to participate in the tournament as well as the schedule for the entire round of matches are as follow:

 

INVITED TEAMS

Natus Vincere

Virtus.Pro

Team Empire

No TideHunter

Team Fnatic

Evil Geniuses

Team  Dignitas

Team Liquid

 

SCHEDULE OF MATCHES

 

DATE	TYPE OF MATCH	TIME (GMT)
20 March	Two matches of Upper Bracket (Round 1)	20:00 and 23:00
21 March	Two matches of Upper Bracket (Round 1)	20:00 and 23:00
22 March	First match of Lower Bracket (Round 1)	20:00 and 23:00
23 March	First match of Upper Bracket (Round 2)	20:00
24 March	Second match of Upper Bracket (Round 2)	20:00
27 March	Lower Bracket match (Round 2)	20:00 and 23:00
28 March	Lower Bracket match (Round 3)	20:00
29 March	Upper Bracket Final	20:00
30 March	Lower Bracket Final	20:00
31 March	Grand Final	20:00

 

The matches will be available through Dota TV using StarLadder Season 5 tickets, or you can also watch them with livestream available in six different official languages: Casperrr , v1lat, and Maelstorm (Russian); TobiWan, Sheever, and Epi (English); Luci (French); Saga (German); AntenaDota (Spanish); Dota2vn (Vietnamese).

 

Last but not least, here is a breakdown of the prize pool for the top three teams:

 

Prizes:

1^st Place               - $4,000

2^nd Place              - $1,500

3^rd Place               - $500

 

Source:
http://www.virtuspro.org/news/dota2/Novyy-superturnir-Ritmix-DOTA2-League/#axzz2M6Dpi8J4