The Immortal Cup Season 1 has a singular tackle how tournaments can characteristic solely retired Chinese language professional gamers and nonetheless be fascinating. 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 Might 6, the place eight gamers served as captains to construct eight Dota 2 groups. The captains embody:
Jiang “YYF” Cen
Lu “Perhaps” Yao
Xu “fy” Linsen
Xie “DD” Bin
Ding “Dy” Cong
老陈
Chen “Zhou” Yao
Music “Sccc” Chun
Should you’re an old-school Dota 2 fan, many of those captains are positively 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, resembling every auctioned participant has a distinct 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 whole age have to be greater than 170 years.
Participant Public sale Outcomes at Immortal Cup S1
On the prime of the record of gamers with highest public sale value 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.
Among the most promising Dota 2 workforce builds embody Workforce Perhaps, with Yang “Chalice” Shenyi, Yap “xNova” Jian Wei and Perhaps himself. This roster is paying homage 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the one TI winner taking part in Immortal Cup S1, additionally has his eye on promising skills, resembling Emo and Ren “outdated eLeVeN” Yangwei.
What’s stunning from the outcomes of group stage is Workforce DD, which received each single sequence.
Immortal Cup Season 1 Event Format
Whereas we’re at it, the Immortal Cup Season 1 contains 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 might 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 choose both backside seed groups from the opposite group as their first opponent.
The Group Stage contains 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 sequence is a singular tackle how the Chinese language Dota 2 scene can nonetheless capitalize on its area’s growing older skills that after made a reputation in Dota 2 Esports. Though these veterans is probably not match to compete towards the youthful era of Dota 2 gamers, followers are nonetheless keen to observe these legendary gamers in motion.
The Immortal Cup S1 provides 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 Might 12-19, then the group stage on June 3-7 and lastly, playoffs on June 8-15 on Bkop’s official Twitch channel.
