The Immortal Cup Season 1 has a singular tackle how tournaments can function solely retired Chinese language professional gamers and nonetheless be attention-grabbing. The parents over at Immortal Cup Season 1 invited retired professional gamers and present professional gamers who’re taking a break from aggressive play, however places them in a bidding system for workforce constructing.
As such, we get fantasy groups of Chinese language veteran gamers that we by no means anticipate to see.
Immortal Cup Season 1 (Picture credit score: HUYA)
How participant public sale and bidding works in Immortal Cup S1?
The draft present at Immortal Cup S1 occurred throughout a reside stream on Could 6, the place eight gamers served as captains to construct eight Dota 2 groups. The captains embrace:
Jiang “YYF” Cen
Lu “Possibly” Yao
Xu “fy” Linsen
Xie “DD” Bin
Ding “Dy” Cong
老陈
Chen “Zhou” Yao
Tune “Sccc” Chun
In case you’re an old-school Dota 2 fan, many of those captains are undoubtedly acquainted faces, some are Worldwide Champions themselves and even the oldest Dota 2 gamers too. Anyway, these captains bid in every participant public sale, the place the captain providing the very best bid will win the particular participant’s public sale. That’s the gist of the Immortal Cup Season 1 draft present, however there are different guidelines, reminiscent of every auctioned participant has a special beginning bid, starting from ¥400,000, ¥200,000, and ¥100,000.
Every captain has an preliminary fund of ¥2.5 million and has to make sure their workforce’s complete age have to be greater than 170 years.
Participant Public sale Outcomes at Immortal Cup S1
On the high of the record of gamers with highest public sale worth is Zhou “Emo” Yi, Du “Monet” Peng, Lou “Lou” Zhen, Thiay “JT-” Jun Wen and Zeng “Ori” Jiaoyang. Contemplating the feats and accomplishments these gamers have of their books, that’s significantly cheap to bid on gamers with such calibre.
A few of the most promising Dota 2 workforce builds embrace Workforce Possibly, with Yang “Chalice” Shenyi, Yap “xNova” Jian Wei and Possibly himself. This roster is harking back to PSG.LGD’s glory days within the Worldwide 2018 and 2019. Workforce Sccc additionally scouted out some heavy-hitters among the many veteran professional gamers, notably Monet and Ye “BoBoKa” Zhibiao into his workforce. And Zhou, the one TI winner collaborating in Immortal Cup S1, additionally has his eye on promising abilities, reminiscent of Emo and Ren “previous eLeVeN” Yangwei.
What’s shocking from the outcomes of group stage is Workforce DD, which gained each single collection.
Immortal Cup Season 1 Match Format
Whereas we’re at it, the Immortal Cup Season 1 incorporates a distinctive match format as nicely. They’ve a Heat-up stage, that includes two single round-robin teams of 4 groups every, the place matches are best-of-three. Though no groups can be eradicated in Heat-up stage but, it determines the match-up for the upcoming Group stage, the place the highest seed of every group in Heat-up stage will get to select both backside seed groups from the opposite group as their first opponent.
The Group Stage incorporates a swiss-system format for the eight groups, the place top-four advances to the higher bracket of Playoffs, whereas fifth-sixth place groups proceed to the decrease bracket. The remainder are eradicated. Within the Playoffs, it’s a double-elimination bracket, the place matches are additionally best-of-three, besides the decisive best-of-five grand closing.
The Immortal Cup collection is a singular tackle how the Chinese language Dota 2 scene can nonetheless capitalize on its area’s getting old abilities that when made a reputation in Dota 2 Esports. Though these veterans is probably not match to compete towards the youthful technology of Dota 2 gamers, followers are nonetheless keen to observe these legendary gamers in motion.
The Immortal Cup S1 affords a beneficiant million-yuan prize pool, which is roughly $138,000. An quantity that’s fairly cheap in Chinese language Dota 2 scene. Catch the Immortal Cup S1’s Heat-up stage taking place from Could 12-19, then the group stage on June 3-7 and lastly, playoffs on June 8-15 on Bkop’s official Twitch channel.
