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==Legacy==
==Legacy==
As with every consecutive International since 2014, the event broke the eSports tournament record for the largest prize pool, which finalized at {{USD}}24,787,916.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Prescott|first1=Shaun|title=The Dota 2 International prize pool has comfortably broken its record|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/the-dota-2-international-prize-pool-has-comfortably-broken-its-record/|website=PC Gamer|accessdate=August 8, 2017}}</ref> A four-part episodic documentary television series produced by [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|TBS]] regarding the event aired throughout August 2017. Known as ''[[Eleague]]: Road To The International Dota 2 Championships'', the documentary followed [[compLexity Gaming]]'s attempt to qualify for the tournament.<ref>{{cite web|title=Over 21 Million on the Line in New DOTA 2 Esports Docu-series|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/news/dota-2-players-race-to-the-international-2017-w492838|website=Rolling Stone|accessdate=July 18, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Rose|first1=Victoria|title=TBS's TI7 documentary is worthwhile for fans and casual viewers alike|url=https://www.theflyingcourier.com/2017/8/4/16098594/dota-2-eleague-tbs-television-documentary-road-to-the-international-review-pilot-ti7|website=The Flying Courier|publisher=Polygon|accessdate=August 5, 2017}}</ref> Other events took place during the tournament, including an [[all-star game|all-star match]], featuring players voted in by Battle Pass owners,<ref>{{cite web|title=All-Star Voting and Player Card Packs|url=http://blog.dota2.com/2017/07/all-star-voting-and-player-card-packs/|website=blog.dota2.com|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref> a fan [[cosplay]] competition, and a ''Dota 2'' themed short film contest, with all of them having their own independent prize pools.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rose|first1=Victoria|title=Short Film and Cosplay Competitions bring creative heat to The International 7|url=https://www.theflyingcourier.com/2017/7/20/16003860/dota-2-ti7-short-film-cosplay-competitions|website=The Flying Courier|publisher=Polygon|accessdate=July 25, 2017}}</ref> Also during the event, Valve revealed a teaser trailer for ''Artifact'', a [[collectible card game]] based on the universe of ''Dota'',<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gies|first1=Arthur|title=Valve announces Artifact, a Dota 2 card game|url=https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/8/16116786/valve-artifact-dota-2-card-game|website=Polygon|accessdate=August 9, 2017}}</ref> as well as two new [[playable characters]] for the game itself.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Horti|first1=Samuel|title=Valve reveals two new Dota 2 heroes|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-reveals-two-new-dota-2-heroes/|website=PC Gamer|accessdate=August 12, 2017}}</ref> A live [[1v1]] demonstration was also played during the event between professional ''Dota 2'' player [[Dendi (Dota player)|Dendi]] and an [[OpenAI]]-curated [[machine learning|machine learned]] [[Video game bot|bot]], to which Dendi lost.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dota 2|url=https://blog.openai.com/dota-2/|website=blog.openai.com|accessdate=August 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Frank|first1=Blair Hanley|title=OpenAI’s bot beats top Dota 2 player so badly that he quits|url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/11/openais-bot-beats-top-dota-2-player-so-badly-that-he-quits/|website=Venture Beat|accessdate=August 12, 2017}}</ref> The grand finals of the tournament between Team Liquid and Newbee were featured in an episode of Valve's ''Dota'' documentary series, ''True Sight''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rose|first1=Victoria|title=True Sight mini-documentary, this time featuring TI7’s Grand Finals, is now available to watch|url=https://www.theflyingcourier.com/2017/9/27/16376074/true-sight-the-international-7-dota-2-esports-documentary|website=The Flying Courier|publisher=Polygon|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref>
As with every consecutive International since 2014, the event broke the eSports tournament record for the largest prize pool, which finalized at {{USD}}24,787,916.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Prescott|first1=Shaun|title=The Dota 2 International prize pool has comfortably broken its record|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/the-dota-2-international-prize-pool-has-comfortably-broken-its-record/|website=PC Gamer|accessdate=August 8, 2017}}</ref> A four-part episodic documentary television series produced by [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|TBS]] regarding the event aired throughout August 2017. Known as ''[[Eleague]]: Road To The International Dota 2 Championships'', the documentary followed [[compLexity Gaming]]'s attempt to qualify for the tournament.<ref>{{cite web|title=Over 21 Million on the Line in New DOTA 2 Esports Docu-series|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/news/dota-2-players-race-to-the-international-2017-w492838|website=Rolling Stone|accessdate=July 18, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Rose|first1=Victoria|title=TBS's TI7 documentary is worthwhile for fans and casual viewers alike|url=https://www.theflyingcourier.com/2017/8/4/16098594/dota-2-eleague-tbs-television-documentary-road-to-the-international-review-pilot-ti7|website=The Flying Courier|publisher=Polygon|accessdate=August 5, 2017}}</ref> Other events took place during the tournament, including an [[all-star game|all-star match]], featuring players voted in by Battle Pass owners,<ref>{{cite web|title=All-Star Voting and Player Card Packs|url=http://blog.dota2.com/2017/07/all-star-voting-and-player-card-packs/|website=blog.dota2.com|accessdate=July 13, 2017}}</ref> a fan [[cosplay]] competition, and a ''Dota 2'' themed short film contest, with all of them having their own independent prize pools.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rose|first1=Victoria|title=Short Film and Cosplay Competitions bring creative heat to The International 7|url=https://www.theflyingcourier.com/2017/7/20/16003860/dota-2-ti7-short-film-cosplay-competitions|website=The Flying Courier|publisher=Polygon|accessdate=July 25, 2017}}</ref> Also during the event, Valve revealed a teaser trailer for ''Artifact'', a [[collectible card game]] based on the universe of ''Dota'',<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gies|first1=Arthur|title=Valve announces Artifact, a Dota 2 card game|url=https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/8/16116786/valve-artifact-dota-2-card-game|website=Polygon|accessdate=August 9, 2017}}</ref> as well as two new [[playable characters]] for the game itself.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Horti|first1=Samuel|title=Valve reveals two new Dota 2 heroes|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-reveals-two-new-dota-2-heroes/|website=PC Gamer|accessdate=August 12, 2017}}</ref> A live [[1v1]] demonstration was also played during the event between professional ''Dota 2'' player [[Dendi (Dota player)|Danylo "Dendi" Ishutin]] and an [[OpenAI]]-curated [[machine learning|machine learned]] [[Video game bot|bot]], to which Dendi lost.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dota 2|url=https://blog.openai.com/dota-2/|website=blog.openai.com|accessdate=August 12, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Frank|first1=Blair Hanley|title=OpenAI’s bot beats top Dota 2 player so badly that he quits|url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/11/openais-bot-beats-top-dota-2-player-so-badly-that-he-quits/|website=Venture Beat|accessdate=August 12, 2017}}</ref> The grand finals of the tournament between Team Liquid and Newbee were featured in an episode of Valve's ''Dota'' documentary series, ''True Sight''.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rose|first1=Victoria|title=True Sight mini-documentary, this time featuring TI7’s Grand Finals, is now available to watch|url=https://www.theflyingcourier.com/2017/9/27/16376074/true-sight-the-international-7-dota-2-esports-documentary|website=The Flying Courier|publisher=Polygon|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref>


== Notes ==
== Notes ==

Revision as of 01:14, 18 January 2018

The International 2017
Tournament information
SportDota 2
LocationSeattle, Washington, United States
DatesAugust 7–12, 2017
AdministratorValve Corporation
Tournament
format(s)
Group stage
Round robin
Main event
Double elimination
Host(s)Valve Corporation
Venue(s)KeyArena
Participants18 teams
PurseUS$24,787,916
Final positions
ChampionsTeam Liquid
1st runner-upNewbee
2nd runner-upLGD.Forever Young

The International 2017 (TI7) was the seventh iteration of The International, an annual Dota 2 eSports championship tournament. Hosted by Valve Corporation, the game's developer, the tournament began with the qualifier phase in June 2017, and ended after the main event at the KeyArena in Seattle in August. It awarded the biggest prize pool in eSports history at over US$24 million, breaking the record set by the previous year's tournament. The Grand Finals took place between the European-based Team Liquid and the Chinese-based Newbee, with Liquid sweeping Newbee 3-0 in a best-of-five series, winning nearly $11 million in prize money.

Background and format

Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena video game (MOBA) developed by the Valve Corporation. In it, two teams of five players compete by selecting pre-designed in-game hero characters, each with a variety of innate skills and deploy-able powers, and cooperating together to destroy the base of the other team before their own base is destroyed as to win the round. The game is played from a top-down perspective, and the player sees a segment of the game's map near their character as well as mini-map that shows their allies as well as any enemies revealed outside the fog of war. The game's map has three symmetric "lanes" between each base, with a number of automated defense turrets protecting each side. Periodically, the team's base will spawn an army of weak non-playable minions that will march down one lane towards the opponents' base, fighting any enemy hero, minion, or structure they encounter. If a hero character is killed, that character will respawn back at their base after a delay period, which gets progressively longer the farther into the match.[1][2] The game is a free-to-play, but financially supported by Valve with a variety of microtransactions such as cosmetic items for its heroes. As with previous years of the tournament, a corresponding digital compendium for Dota 2 was released before the event, allowing the prize pool to be crowdfunded.[3][4][5] Known as the "Battle Pass", 25% of revenue made by it was sent directly towards the tournament's prize pool.[5]

At the time of event, Dota 2 featured 113 playable characters, called "heroes". Prior to each game in the tournament, a pre-game draft was held between the opposing team captains to select which heroes their teams will use, going back and forth until each side has selected and banned five heroes. Once a hero is picked, it cannot be selected by any other player that match, so teams use the draft to strategically plan ahead and deny the opponent's heroes that may be good counters or would be able to take advantage of weaknesses to their current lineup. The first pick in a match is decided by an in-game coin toss, and switches between each game in that match; the team that does not get first pick does get the option of which side of the map to defend.[1]

The tournament initially began with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), China, Europe, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia regional qualifiers in June 2017.[6] Prior to the main event on August 2–5, two separate best-of-two round robin groups consisting of nine teams each were played, with the bottom placed team of each group being eliminated.[7][8][9] The remaining 16 teams moved on to the double elimination main event at the KeyArena in Seattle from August 7–12, with the top four finishing teams from both groups advancing to the upper bracket, and the bottom four advancing to the lower bracket.[8][7][6] The first round of the lower bracket was treated as single-elimination, with the loser of each match being immediately eliminated from the tournament.[7][9] Every other round of both brackets was played in a best-of-three series, with the exception being the Grand Finals, which was played between the winners of the upper and lower brackets in a best-of-five series.[7][9] As with previous years of the event, Seattle KCPQ reporter Kaci Aitchison reprised her role as co-host and interviewer.[7] However, Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner, the desk host of the last two Internationals, was not invited.[7] Instead, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament host Alex "Machine" Richardson and StarCraft personality Sean "Day[9]" Plott replaced him.[7]

Teams

Six teams were directly invited to the event, with an additional twelve qualifying teams participating.[6][10] New to the event from previous years was the expansion from 16 to 18 total teams, as well as establishment of new qualifying regions; the Americas were split into separate North and South America regions, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region was split off from Europe.[10][11] The International 2016 champion Wings Gaming disbanded earlier in 2017 with its members taking a break from professional Dota, marking the first time in the International's history that a defending champion or any player of its former roster did not defend their title.[12] The rosters of two independent teams, Planet Dog and Team NP, were signed after the qualifier stage respectively by the eSports organizations HellRaisers and Cloud9.[13][14] Valve tournament rules allow for players to freely play for another team or organization without restrictions, as long as the rosters remain the same.[15]

Direct invitation
Regional qualifier winners
  • China iG Vitality (China)
  • China LGD.Forever Young (China runner-up)
  • China LGD Gaming (China third place)
  • Russia Team Empire (CIS)
  • Europe Team Secret (Europe)
  • Europe HellRaisers (Europe runner-up)[a]
  • United States Cloud9 (North America)[b]
  • United States Digital Chaos (North America runner-up)
  • Peru Infamous (South America)
  • Philippines TNC Pro Team (Southeast Asia)
  • Malaysia Fnatic (Southeast Asia runner-up)
  • Philippines Execration (Southeast Asia third place)

Results

Group stage

The group stage events were round robin matches played before the main event that, based on results, either placed teams into the upper or lower bracket. The bottom placed team of both groups were eliminated entirely.

Group A
Pos Team W L
1 Team Liquid 13 3 Advanced to the upper bracket
2 LGD Gaming 12 4
3 Evil Geniuses 11 5
4 TNC Pro Team 9 7
5 Team Secret 7 9 Advanced to the lower bracket
6 iG.Vitality 7 9
7 Team Empire 6 10
8 Infamous 5 11
9 Fnatic 2 14 Eliminated
Source: [16][17]
Group B
Pos Team W L
1 LGD.Forever Young 14 2 Advanced to the upper bracket
2 Newbee 11 5
3 Invictus Gaming 10 6
4 Virtus.pro 10 6
5 OG 9 7 Advanced to the lower bracket
6 Cloud9 6 10
7 Digital Chaos 6 10
8 Execration 5 11
9 HellRaisers 1 15 Eliminated
Source: [16][17]

Main event

KeyArena in Seattle, the venue where the main event took place

The main event featured two brackets in the double-elimination tournament format. In the upper brackets, played to best-of-three, the winning team moved on, while the losing team would then be placed in respective rounds of the lower bracket. The winner of the upper bracket moved to the Grand Finals. The first round in the lower bracket was played as a best-of-one, with the loser being immediately eliminated. All other matches were best-of-three, with the winner of the lower bracket advancing to the Grand Finals, which was a best-of-five series, to face the winner of the upper bracket.[18][19][20][21][22]

Upper bracket

Quarterfinals Semifinals Upper bracket finals
         
Europe Team Liquid 1
China Invictus Gaming 2
China Invictus Gaming 1
China Newbee 2
United States Evil Geniuses 0
China Newbee 2
China Newbee 2
China LGD.Forever Young 1
China LGD.Forever Young 2
Philippines TNC Pro Team 0
China LGD.Forever Young 2
Russia Virtus.pro 0
China LGD Gaming 0
Russia Virtus.pro 2

Lower bracket

Grand Finals

Template:2TeamBracket-Compact-NoSeeds Team Liquid defeated Newbee three straight times in the best-of-five series, the first time a team had been shut out in the International Grand Finals.[23] PC Gamer described Team Liquid's approach as a "dominating snowball style" strategy.[24] One of Liquid's team members would aggressively attack the Newbee base in a sacrificial manner, harming some of their defenses a little at a time. This allowed the CPU-controlled mobs for Team Liquid, known in-game as "creeps", to easily clear through one of the lanes that were no longer defended and harass the opponent's base, requiring Newbee's players to focus more on defending against the creeps than the attacking heroes. Eventually Newbee were overwhelmed and succumbed to Team Liquid's attack. Newbee attempted to adjust their strategy at the start of the third match by changing their hero drafting picks, but were unable to recover.[22] The third and final match was won by a coordinated effort by Team Liquid's players, using several powerful hero abilities in synergy, to take out all of Newbee's heroes. They then pressed their advantage to advance towards Newbee's base, unable to be stopped, winning the match and therefore the tournament.[24]

Winnings

(Note: Prizes are in USD)

Place Team Prize money
1st European Union Team Liquid $10,862,683
2nd China Newbee $3,950,067
3rd China LGD.Forever Young $2,592,231
4th China LGD Gaming $1,728,154
5th/6th China Invictus Gaming $1,110,956
Russia Virtus.pro
7th/8th Europe OG $617,198
Russia Team Empire
9th–12th United States Digital Chaos $370,319
United States Evil Geniuses
Europe Team Secret
Philippines TNC Pro Team
13th–16th United States Cloud9 $123,440
Philippines Execration
China iG Vitality
Peru Infamous
17th–18th Malaysia Fnatic $61,720
Europe HellRaisers

Viewership

The matches were broadcast through the game's built-in spectating client, as well as through the live streaming platform Twitch.tv. Valve reported that concurrent viewership numbers exceeded five million during the event, surpassing numbers set at previous Internationals.[25] During the Grand Finals, more than 400,000 people were watching the series via Twitch, with the KeyArena also being filled to its 15,000+ capacity.[26]

Legacy

As with every consecutive International since 2014, the event broke the eSports tournament record for the largest prize pool, which finalized at US$24,787,916.[27] A four-part episodic documentary television series produced by TBS regarding the event aired throughout August 2017. Known as Eleague: Road To The International Dota 2 Championships, the documentary followed compLexity Gaming's attempt to qualify for the tournament.[28][29] Other events took place during the tournament, including an all-star match, featuring players voted in by Battle Pass owners,[30] a fan cosplay competition, and a Dota 2 themed short film contest, with all of them having their own independent prize pools.[31] Also during the event, Valve revealed a teaser trailer for Artifact, a collectible card game based on the universe of Dota,[32] as well as two new playable characters for the game itself.[33] A live 1v1 demonstration was also played during the event between professional Dota 2 player Danylo "Dendi" Ishutin and an OpenAI-curated machine learned bot, to which Dendi lost.[34][35] The grand finals of the tournament between Team Liquid and Newbee were featured in an episode of Valve's Dota documentary series, True Sight.[36]

Notes

  1. ^ Played through the qualifiers as Planet Dog
  2. ^ Played through the qualifiers as Team NP

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