The biggest online DotA 2 tournament in SEA yet is now set to kick off this weekend. Twenty-four of the region's finest teams are poised to duke it out for a $5000 prize pool.  

Hosted by Gigabyte and scheduled to run for six weeks, the tournament will initially employ a round-robin format, with the twenty-four teams (two still yet to be decided, by qualifiers) divided into these just confirmed four groups of six:

After the group stage, the tournament will switch to a Double Elimination bracket format. The top two teams in each will advance into the Winner's Bracket, the third and fourth placed into the Loser's Bracket, with the bottom two eliminated entirely.

All of the matches will be played as a best-of-three, up until the Grand Final, which will be a best-of-five, with the Winner's Bracket finalist taking a one-game lead into the final showdown. The overall winners will take away a $3000 prize, with $1250 going to the runners-up and $750 for the third-place finishers.

The group stages will begin this coming Sunday, April 29th, and will be completed by May 23rd. An English language stream and commentary of the action will be provided by GosuGamers' David 'GoDz' Parker, now of course from his new studio in Thailand.

(Source:Gosugamers.net)