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Shanghai Major 2016
China China
Start Date:3 January 2016
End Date:6 March 2016
Teams:16
Version:6.86e
Prize Pool:$3,000,000
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The Shanghai Major 2016 is the second seasonal Valve-sponsored tournament (or "Major") to take place, after the Frankfurt Major 2015. The event will be organized by Chinese gaming company Perfect World at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China. It will feature 16 teams competing for a prize pool of US$3 million, the fourth biggest prizepool to ever be given by any event after the 2015 and 2014 editions of The International and the Dota 2 Asia Championship 2015. Unlike previous Valve-sponsored tournaments, the Shanghai Major 2016 did not increase its base prizepool via crowfunding, but has (like its predecessors) a dedicated compendium that includes numerous promotional items.

Access and Promotions[]

Coverage[]

Matches can be viewed live through DotaTV for free.

Schedule and Format[]

Date Event Notes
January 3 – 6 Open Qualifiers
  • Open to all teams.
  • Single elimination.
  • Two winners from each region advance to regional qualifiers.
January 7 – 10 Regional Qualifiers
  • 4 Regions: Americas, Europe, China, and Southeast Asia.
  • Each region consists of two round robin groups of five teams.
  • Top two teams from each group will advance to a double elimination bracket.
  • The winner and runner-up of each region will be invited to the main event.
February 25-28 Group Stage
  • 16 teams separated into four groups.
  • Double elimination.
  • Top 2 teams from each group advance to Main Event upper bracket.
  • Bottom 2 teams from each group advance to Main Event lower bracket.
March 2-6 Main Event
  • 16 teams.
  • 8 teams begin on the upper bracket, 8 on lower bracket.
  • Lower bracket round one matches are best of one, other matches are best of three.
  • Grand finals are best of five.


Teams[]

Invited Teams[]

OG
Jordan Miracle- Amer Barqawi
Denmark BigDaddy Johan Sundstein
Canada MoonMeander David Tan
Denmark Cr1t- Andreas Franck Nielsen
Israel Fly Tal Aizik
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Evil Geniuses
Canada Arteezy Artour Babaev
Pakistan SumaiL Syed Sumail Hassan
United States UNiVeRsE Saahil Arora
United States Fear Clinton Loomis
United States ppd Peter Dager
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Team Secret
Canada EternaLEnVy Jacky Mao
Romania w33 Aliwi Omar
Denmark MiSeRy Rasmus Filipsen
Estonia Puppey Clement Ivanov
Sweden pieliedie Johan Åström
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EHOME
China Cty Chen Tianyu
China old chicken Wang Zhiyong
China eLeVeN Ren Yangwei
China LaNm Zhang Zhicheng
China KaKa Hu Liangzhi
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CDEC
China Agressif Sun Zheng
China Shiki Huang Jiwei
China Xz Chen Zezhi
China Garder Lin Xinzhou
China Q Fu Bin
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Vici Gaming
China BurNIng Xu Zhilei
China Super Xie Junhao
Singapore iceiceice Daryl Koh Pei Xiang
China Fenrir Lu Chao
China fy Xu Linsen
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Virtus.pro
Russia Silent Airat Gaziev
Russia G Sergey Bragin
Ukraine DkPhobos Alexander Kucheria
Ukraine Lil Ilya Ilyuk
Belarus Fng Artem Barshak
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Alliance
Sweden Loda Jonathan Berg
Sweden s4 Gustav Magnusson
Sweden AdmiralBul… Henrik Ahnberg
Sweden EGM Jerry Lundkvist
Sweden Akke Joakim Akterhall
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Qualified Teams[]

Americas
Team Archon
Canada Jeyo Jio Madayag
United States monkeys-fo… Jaron Clinton
United States Moo David Hull
United States whiteBeard Bryant Lehwald
United States FLUFFNSTUFF Brian Lee
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Americas
compLexity Gaming
Sweden Chessie Rasmus Blomdin
Sweden Limmp Linus Blomdin
United States swindlemel… Kyle Freedman
United States Zfreek Zakari Freedman
Sweden Handsken Simon Haag
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Europe
Team Liquid
Finland MATUMBAMAN Lasse Urpalainen
Germany FATA- Adrian Trinks
Bulgaria MinD_ContRoL Ivan Borislavov
Germany KuroKy Kuro Salehi Takhasomi
Finland JerAx Jesse Vainikka
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Europe
Team Spirit
Russia RAMZES666 Roman Kushnarev
Ukraine Iceberg Bogdan Vasilenko
Russia AfterLife Vasily Shishkin
Ukraine ALWAYSWANN… Andrey Bondarenko
Ukraine Goblak Artur Kostenko
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China
LGD Gaming
China Sylar Liu Jiajun
China Maybe Lu Yao
China rOtK Bai Fan
China MMY Lei Zengrong
Macau ddc Liang Faming
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China
Newbee
China Hao Chen Zhihao
China Mu Pan Zhang
China Xiao2lei Meng Lei
Malaysia ChuaN Wong Hock Chuan
China le Zhang Xuanhao
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Southeast Asia
Fnatic
Malaysia Midone Yeik Nai Zheng
Philippines Chrissy Djardel Jicko b. Mampusti
Malaysia Ohaiyo Chong Xin Khoo
Malaysia Mushi Chai Yee Fung
Malaysia Net Wai Pern Lim
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Southeast Asia
MVP Phoenix
South Korea MP Pyo No-a
South Korea QO Kim Seon-yeob
South Korea Forev Lee Sang-don
South Korea Febby Kim Yong-min
South Korea DuBu Kim Doo-young
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Results[]

Open Qualifiers[]

Regional Qualifiers[]

Group Stage[]

  • 16 qualified teams are divided into 4 groups, double elimination.
  • Top two teams from each group advance to main event upper bracket.
  • Bottom two teams from each group advance to main event lower bracket.

Group A (Feb 25th)[]

  Round 1 Round 2 Grand Final
                       
Winner's bracket
  EHOME EHOME 0
  MVP Phoenix MVP Phoenix 2
  MVP Phoenix MVP Phoenix 2
  Team Secret Team Secret 0
  Team Secret Team Secret 2
  CDEC Gaming CDEC Gaming 1
  MVP Phoenix MVP Phoenix U
  Team Secret Team Secret U
Loser's bracket
  Team Secret Team Secret 2
  EHOME EHOME 2
  EHOME EHOME (L) 0
  CDEC Gaming CDEC Gaming (L) 1

Group B (Feb 26th)[]

  Round 1 Round 2 Grand Final
                       
Winner's bracket
  Alliance Alliance 2
  Team Spirit Team Spirit 0
  Alliance Alliance 2
  Fnatic Fnatic 0
  Vici Gaming Vici Gaming 1
  Fnatic Fnatic 2
  Alliance Alliance U
  Fnatic Fnatic U
Loser's bracket
  Fnatic Fnatic 2
  Team Spirit Team Spirit 2
  Team Spirit Team Spirit (L) 1
  Vici Gaming Vici Gaming (L) 0

Group C (Feb 27th)[]

  Round 1 Round 2 Grand Final
                       
Winner's bracket
  OG OG 2
  Team Archon Team Archon 0
  OG OG 2
  PSG.LGD PSG.LGD 1
  PSG.LGD PSG.LGD 2
  Newbee Newbee 1
  OG OG U
  PSG.LGD PSG.LGD U
Loser's bracket
  PSG.LGD PSG.LGD 2
  Team Archon Team Archon (L) 0
  Newbee Newbee (L) 0
  Newbee Newbee 2

Group D (Feb 28th)[]

  Round 1 Round 2 Grand Final
                       
Winner's bracket
  Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses 2
  compLexity Gaming compLexity Gaming 1
  Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses 2
  Virtus.pro Virtus.pro 0
  Virtus.pro Virtus.pro 2
  Team Liquid Team Liquid 1
  Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses U
  Team Liquid Team Liquid U
Loser's bracket
  Virtus.pro Virtus.pro (L) 0
  compLexity Gaming compLexity Gaming (L) 0
  Team Liquid Team Liquid 2
  Team Liquid Team Liquid 2

Main Event[]

  Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Grand Finals
                                                       
  Alliance Alliance 1
  Team Liquid Team Liquid 2
  Team Liquid Team Liquid 2
  MVP Phoenix MVP Phoenix 0
  MVP Phoenix MVP Phoenix 2
  PSG.LGD PSG.LGD 0
  Team Liquid Team Liquid 0
  Team Secret Team Secret 2
  OG OG 1
  Team Secret Team Secret 2
  Team Secret Team Secret 2
  Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses 1
  Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses 2
  Fnatic Fnatic 0
  Team Secret Team Secret 3
  Team Liquid Team Liquid 1
  Alliance Alliance 1
  EHOME EHOME 1
  EHOME EHOME 0   Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses 2
  Team Archon Team Archon 0   Alliance Alliance 1
  compLexity Gaming compLexity Gaming 0
  compLexity Gaming compLexity Gaming 2
  PSG.LGD PSG.LGD 0
  Team Spirit Team Spirit 0   Team Liquid Team Liquid 2
  compLexity Gaming compLexity Gaming 1   Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses 2
  compLexity Gaming compLexity Gaming 1   Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses 0
  MVP Phoenix MVP Phoenix 0
  OG OG 1
  Virtus.pro Virtus.pro 1
  Virtus.pro Virtus.pro 0   MVP Phoenix MVP Phoenix 2
  Vici Gaming Vici Gaming 0   OG OG 1
  Fnatic Fnatic 0
  Fnatic Fnatic 2
  Fnatic Fnatic 1
  CDEC Gaming CDEC Gaming 0
  Newbee Newbee 0
  Newbee Newbee 1

Prize Allocation[]

Final Prize Pool: $3,000,000 USD
Place Team Winnings Percent
A11st  Team Secret Team Secret
Europe
$1,110,000 37%
A22nd  Team Liquid Team Liquid
Europe
$405,000 13.5%
A33rd  Evil Geniuses Evil Geniuses
United States
$315,000 10.5%
A44th  MVP Phoenix MVP Phoenix
South Korea
$255,000 8.5%
A55th  Fnatic Fnatic
Malaysia
$202,500 6.75%
A66th  compLexity Gaming compLexity Gaming
United States
$202,500 6.75%
A77th  OG OG
Europe
$105,000 3.5%
A88th  Alliance Alliance
Sweden
$105,000 3.5%
A99th  Newbee Newbee
China
$45,000 1.5%
B010th  Virtus.pro Virtus.pro
Russia
$45,000 1.5%
B111th  PSG.LGD PSG.LGD
China
$45,000 1.5%
B212th  EHOME EHOME
China
$45,000 1.5%
B313th  Team Archon Team Archon
United States
$30,000 1%
B414th  Team Spirit Team Spirit
Russia
$30,000 1%
B515th  Vici Gaming Vici Gaming
China
$30,000 1%
B616th  CDEC Gaming CDEC Gaming
China
$30,000 1%

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