The Shanghai Major 2016

• Overview
• Open Qualifiers
• Main Qualifiers
• Group Stage
• Main Event
• Statistics

[e][h]The Shanghai Major 2016

League Information

Organizer:

Perfect World

Sponsor:

Valve

Game Version:

6.86f

Type:

Offline

Location:

 Shanghai

Format:

Group Stage
Double-elimination bracket

Prize pool:

$3,000,000

Start Date:

2016-02-25

End Date:

2016-03-06

Dota TV Ticket:

Free in Dota 2 Client

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

The Shanghai Major (or "Winter Major") is the second event of Valve's Dota Major Championships, which will add 3 new publisher-sponsored tournaments each year in addition to The International. The main event takes place at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China.

Format

• Open Qualifiers - January 3rd - January 6th, 2016
  • Eight Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers, two brackets for each region.
    • The winners of each Regional Qualifier will advance to the respective Main Qualifier.
• Main Qualifiers - January 7th - January 10th, 2016
  • Four Regional Qualifiers.
    • Two groups of five teams, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the Regional Double-elimination Playoff Bracket.
    • The winner and runner-up of each Regional Playoff Bracket will join the eight directly invited teams in Shanghai.
• Group Stage - February 25th - February 28th, 2016
  • Four groups of four teams
    • Double-elimination format with matches played in a best-of-three.
    • Top two teams in each group advance to upper bracket of the Main Event.
    • Bottom two teams in each group advance to lower bracket of the Main Event.
• Main Event - March 2nd - March 6th, 2016
  • Teams are seeded into a double-elimination bracket after the Group Stage.
    • Eight teams begin in the upper bracket, eight in the lower bracket.
    • First two lower bracket games are best of one, Grand Finals are best of five, all others are best of three.

Prize Pool

The prize pool of the tournament was $3,000,000 USD.
The prize pool is split among the participating teams as seen below:

Place	$ USD	Percent	Team
1st	$1,110,000	37%	TBD
2nd	$405,000	13.5%	TBD
3rd	$315,000	10.5%	TBD
4th	$255,000	8.5%	TBD
5th-6th	$202,000	6.75%	TBD
			TBD
7th-8th	$105,000	3.5%	TBD
			TBD
9th-12th	$45,000	1.5%	TBD
			TBD
			TBD
			TBD
13th-16th	$30,000	1%	TBD
			TBD
			TBD
			TBD

Participants

Invited Teams

OG

1	Miracle-
2	BigDaddy
3	MoonMeander
4	Cr1t-
5	Fly
Preview

Direct Invite

Evil Geniuses

1	Arteezy
2	SumaiL
3	UNiVeRsE
4	Fear
5	ppd
Preview

Direct Invite

Team Secret

1	EternaLEnVy
2	w33
3	MiSeRy
4	Puppey
5	pieliedie
Preview

Direct Invite

EHOME

1	Cty
2	old chicken
3	eLeVeN
4	LaNm
5	Kaka
Preview

Direct Invite

CDEC Gaming

1	Agressif
2	Shiki
3	Xz
4	Q
5	garder
Preview

Direct Invite

Vici Gaming

1	BurNIng
2	Super
3	iceiceice
4	fy
5	Fenrir
Preview

Direct Invite

Virtus.pro

1	Silent
2	God
3	DkPhobos
4	Lil
5	fng
Preview

Direct Invite

Alliance

1	Loda
2	s4
3	AdmiralBulldog
4	EGM
5	Akke
Preview

Direct Invite

Qualified Teams

Team Liquid

1	MATUMBAMAN
2	FATA-
3	MinD_ContRoL
4	JerAx
5	KuroKy

Europe Qualifier

Team Spirit

1	RAMZES666
2	Iceberg
3	AfterLife
4	Goblak
5	ALWAYSWANNAFLY

Europe Qualifier

Team Archon

1	Jeyo
2	monkeys-forever
3	Moo
4	whiteBeard
5	FLUFFNSTUFF

Americas Qualifier

compLexity Gaming

1	Chessie
2	Limmp
3	swindlemelonzz
4	Zfreek
5	Handsken

Americas Qualifier

LGD Gaming

1	Sylar
2	Maybe
3	rOtK
4	MMY!
5	DDC

China Qualifier

Newbee

1	Hao
2	Mu
3	Xiao2le
4	ChuaN
5	le

China Qualifier

Fnatic

1	Mushi
2	Miduan
3	DJ
4	Ohaiyo
5	Net

SEA Qualifier

MVP Phoenix

1	MP
2	QO
3	Forev
4	Febby
5	DuBu

SEA Qualifier

Results

Group Stage

Group A

Group A
February 25, 2016February 25, 2016
1.	MVP Phoenix			2-0	4-0
2.	Team Secret			2-1	4-3
3.	EHOME.cn			1-2	2-5
4.	CDEC Gaming			0-2	2-4

Group A Matches
EHOME	0 EHOME MVP.Phx 25 February 2016 - 9:00 CST 25m56s 30m14s	2	MVP.Phx
Secret	2 Secret CDEC 25 February 2016 - 9:00 CST 34m15s 24m27s 32m51s	1	CDEC
EHOME	2 EHOME CDEC 25 February 2016 - 12:30 CST 46m07s 44m20s 47m15s	1	CDEC
MVP.Phx	2 MVP.Phx Secret 25 February 2016 - 16:00 CST 18m34s 24m02s	0	Secret
EHOME	0 EHOME Secret 25 February 2016 - 19:30 CST 40m40s 34m32s	2	Secret

Group B

Group B
February 26, 2016February 26, 2016
1.	Alliance			2-0	4-0
2.	Fnatic			2-1	4-4
3.	Team Spirit			1-2	3-4
4.	Vici Gaming			0-2	1-4

Group B Matches
[A]	2 [A] TSpirit 26 February 2016 - 9:00 CST 36m34s 44m28s	0	TSpirit
VG	1 VG Fnatic 26 February 2016 - 9:00 CST 50m48s 34m55s 21m52s	2	Fnatic
TSpirit	2 TSpirit VG 26 February 2016 - 14:15 CST 32m45s 28m43s	0	VG
[A]	2 [A] Fnatic 26 February 2016 - 17:15 CST 60m34s 50m24s	0	Fnatic
TSpirit	1 TSpirit Fnatic 26 February 2016 - 20:45 CST 54m53s 31m14s 41m55s	2	Fnatic

Group C

Group C
February 27, 2016February 27, 2016
.	LGD Gaming				-
.	Newbee				-
.	OG				-
.	Team Archon				-

Group C Matches
OG	0 OG Archon DotaMajor27 February 2016 - 9:00 CST	0	Archon
LGD	0 LGD Newbee DotaMajor27 February 2016 - 9:00 CST	0	Newbee
	0 DotaMajor27 February 2016 - 12:30 CST	0
	0 DotaMajor27 February 2016 - 16:00 CST	0
	0 DotaMajor27 February 2016 - 19:30 CST	0

Group D

Group D
February 28, 2016February 28, 2016
.	compLexity Gaming				-
.	Evil Geniuses				-
.	Team Liquid				-
.	Virtus.pro				-

Group D Matches
EG	0 EG coL DotaMajor28 February 2016 - 9:00 CST	0	coL
VP	0 VP Liquid DotaMajor28 February 2016 - 9:00 CST	0	Liquid
	0 DotaMajor28 February 2016 - 12:30 CST	0
	0 DotaMajor28 February 2016 - 16:00 CST	0
	0 DotaMajor28 February 2016 - 19:30 CST	0

Main Event

 

Upper Bracket Round 1 (Bo3)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 2, 2016 - 03:00 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 2, 2016 - 06:30 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 3, 2016 - 03:00 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 3, 2013 - 06:30 CET

 

Upper Bracket Round 2 (Bo3)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 4, 2016 - 03:00 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 4, 2016 - 06:30 CET

 

Upper Bracket Finals (Bo3)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 5, 2016 - 10:00 CET

 

Lower Bracket Round 1 (Bo1)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 2, 2016 - 10:00 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 2, 2016 - 11:30 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 2, 2016 - 13:00 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 2, 2016 - 14:30 CET

 

Lower Bracket Round 2 (Bo1)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 3, 2016 - 10:00 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 3, 2016 - 11:30 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 3, 2016 - 13:00 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 3, 2016 - 14:30 CET

 

Lower Bracket Round 3 (Bo3)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 4, 2016 - 10:00 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 4, 2016 - 13:30 CET

 

Lower Bracket Round 4 (Bo3)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 5, 2016 - 03:00 CET

 

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 5, 2016 - 06:30 CET

 

Lower Bracket Round 5 (Bo3)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 5, 2016 - 13:30 CET

 

Lower Bracket Finals (Bo3)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 6, 2016 - 06:30 CET

 

Grand Finals (Bo5)

 

TBD

TBD

DotaMajorMarch 6, 2016 - 08:00 CET