Dota 2 News: DreamLeague Season 11 Closed Qualifiers End; Fnatic, PSG LGD, Evil Geniuses (EG), Virtus Pro Book Their Spots To Play In the Third Major 

The DreamLeague Season 11 qualifiers for all the six regions has ended with 15 teams booking a slot to play in the third major of the season, which will be taking place in Stockholm. The last slot will be given to the winners of the next minor, the StarLadder ImbaTV Dota 2 minor which will be held in Kiev, Ukraine. With only 3 majors and minors each left this season, the teams were looking to qualify to the major and gather enough points to qualify to the TI directly.

The summary of each region is given below

North America

The North American region saw three slots being allocated to them and one of the slots predictably went to the North American superstar team Evil Geniuses(EG). Though EG did drop a series in the group stage, they beat Forward Gaming convincingly in the playoffs to book their spot in the major. The second team to qualify was J.Storm who beat Eternal Envys team, Flying Penguins 2-0. The final spot went to Forward Gaming who went to the lower bracket on account of their loss to EG. The quickly dispatched Team Team and Complexity Gaming in 2-0 wins to book their spot in the next major. The 3 teams qualifying from NA region were the same who qualified for the previous major.

South America

The SA region saw the first spot being claimed by the Chaos Esports club who dominated the qualifiers without dropping a game in any of their series thus showing why they deserved to be called the regions strongest team. The second spot was claimed by Infamous who went through the lower bracket and beat the unknown team rei do picolé in the losers finals to book the last and final spot given to the region.

Europe

The European region was awarded 3 spots and it was no surprise that one of the spots was taken by Team Secret. The second spot was taken by Ninjas In Pyjamas (NIP) who had actually beat Team Secret in the group stages. The final spot was taken by the TI 7 champs, Team Liquid who beat Vega Squadron 2-0 in the losers bracket finals after they had been sent to the lower bracket losing to secret by the same scoreline.

CIS

This regions first spot went to Virtus Pro who dominated the qualifiers without dropping a game in any of their series. The second spot surprisingly went to Natus Vincere (NAVI) who came third in their group and thus had to go through the entire lower bracket to claim the final spot in the major given to this region. This will be NAVI's first DPC event in which they will be participating in this season.

China

The Chinese region was also given 3 spots for the major and the first spot predictably went to PSG LGD, who were playing without their carry player Ame who is taking a break from professional Dota 2. The second spot went to the young Chinese team EHOME who continued the good form they showed last major and booked a spot convincingly where they also beat LGD in the group stages. The final spot was booked by Keen Gaming, giving them their first major or minor appearance for this season.

Southeast Asia

The SEA region saw the first of the 2 spots being taken by the star-studded Fnatic team who won all their series dropping only 1 game to Mineski in the upper bracket finals. The second spot was taken by Mineski who won the lower bracket finals with a scorelineof 2-1 against Boom ID.

With the last spot being given to the winner of the next minor, most of the teams which failed to qualify will try to get into the minor and winit to qualify to the major and earn some much needed DPC points. The closed qualifiers for the minor will start from 9th February and will end by the 13th.