Boston major schedule December 7th. The Boston Major: eight teams left

Following the results of yesterday's game day The Boston Major half of the participants dropped out: in addition to Virtus.pro, Evil Geniuses, OG & WG.Unity four more teams advanced to the quarter-final round tournament bracket. By tomorrow, four more teams will leave the competition.

Yesterday, teams from Asia finished their performance at the championship: one representative of Southeast Asia and two teams from China lost to their rivals from the West. Digital Chaos dealt with easily Team Faceless, Team NP managed to beat EHOME with a score of 2:1, and Ad fine surpassed Newbee. The tournament also left the roster LGD Gaming, defeated from LGD.FY with a score of 2:0.

The teams that lost in the 1/8 finals took the last place in the tournament and were rewarded with $62,500 each. Participants who are defeated in the quarter-finals will take home double the amount. The schedule of games for today, as well as recordings of yesterday's matches and other details can be found on our website.

A week after the ESL One Katowice Major, we are moving to the Major in Bucharest. In 2018, PGL really organized a tournament worthy of Major status, which is especially nice from an organizer with such a reputation. Thesis Bucharest Major 2018 is 16 teams, 1 million money, no parallel matches and the Swiss holding system group stage Bucharest Major. The Swiss system always pushes equal opponents, which means an abundance of matches for betting with good odds. On paper, everything looks just gorgeous, let's see how the PGL Major will actually go from March 2018.

List of participants - Bucharest Dota 2 Major 2018

10 teams are invited directly, and 6 winners of regional qualifiers.

The Bucharest Dota 2 Major - Format and standings for March 4-11, 2018

With the format of the PGL tournament this time we were pleasantly surprised, we decide to play the group stage of the Bucharest Major according to the Swiss system. Swiss system - a system for conducting sports tournaments, but it is not new in eSports, although it is quite rare.

What is the Swiss system in esports? After random seeding, all teams play the first round with a random opponent. Further, in the second and subsequent rounds, the teams form groups with an equal number of points, and play one match with an opponent from their group. At Bucharest Major in the second round we will have 4 matches among the 8 teams of the winners of the first round, and 4 matches among the losers. In the third round, teams with two wins, two losses and teams with one win and one loss will play against each other, and so on. All matches of the group stage, the Swiss system, will be held in the Best of 1 format.

Eight teams that will score the most points in the groups will form the playoff bracket, and the spread is not accidental, the first place of the groups will meet with the eighth in the playoffs of the bracket, the second with the seventh, etc., which is especially important, because the final will take place in the Single Elimination format - knockout, all bo3 playoff matches, bo5 grand final.

The Bucharest Major 2018 tournament table is updated in this news. The Bucharest Major playoff bracket will be added after the group stage.

Schedule Dota 2 Major in Bucharest 2018 Moscow time

Games group stage will be held on March 4-7, 2018, in bo1 format, matches go one by one, start at 11:00 Moscow time. According to the schedule of the Bucharest Major for the playoffs, the games will be held on March 9-11, in the bo3 format, the matches will start at 12:00 Moscow time. The grand final of The Bucharest 2018 Major is scheduled for March 11, 15:00 Moscow time and will be held in bo5 format.