Jordan Woodruff
BetBoom Crew completed atop Group A courtesy of a tiebreaker win by Gleb “kiyotaka” Zyryanov on Tuesday because the playoff bracket was finalized for the Betboom Dacha Belgrade occasion in Serbia.
Russia’s Gleb “kiyotaka” Zyryanov defeated Tundra Esports’ Artem “lorenof” Melnick of Ukraine 1-0 in quarter-hour and 16 seconds.
One other tiebreaker settled third place in Group A on Tuesday. Zhou “Emo” Yi of China gave the nod to Yakult’s Brothers with a 1-0 win in 6 minutes and 30 seconds towards Crew Liquid’s Michal “Nisha” Jankowski of Poland.
The $1 million Dota 2 occasion started with 12 groups divided into two teams for round-robin play. Group matches are all two maps. The highest 4 groups from every group advance to the double-elimination playoffs, which start Wednesday. The underside two groups in every group have been eradicated.
Playoff matches can be best-of-three till the grand closing on Saturday, which can be best-of-five. The champion will pocket $400,000, and the runner-up will get $200,000.
Playoffs start Wednesday with 4 upper-bracket quarterfinal matches:
–BetBoom Crew vs. Aurora Gaming
–Tundra Esports vs. Gaimin Gladiators
–Crew Spirit vs. Yakult’s Brothers
–Crew Falcons vs. Crew Liquid
BetBoom Dacha Belgrade prize pool:
1. $400,000
2. $200,000
3. $100,000
4. $60,000
5-6. $40,000
7-8. $30,000
9-10. $25,000 — MOUZ, L1GA TEAM
11-12. $25,000 — Talon Esports, Nouns Esports
–Discipline Stage Media
