Tundra Esports edged PARAVISION 2-1 to win the upper bracket on Saturday and advance to the grand final of the Dota 2 DreamLeague Season 25.
Tundra will face the winner of Sunday’s lower-bracket final between PARAVISION and Team Spirit. The grand final — a best-of-five showdown — will also be played Sunday.
The winner will get $290,000 total prize money while the runner-up will get $130,000 and the third-place club $105,000. Each club will also receive a share of the 20,440 ESL Pro Tour points awarded in the tournament.
PARAVISION actually entered the day as the top seed after going a perfect 7-0 in Group Stage 2. Tundra was second at 5-2. Tundra opened the match with a 30-minute win on red but PARAVISION won in 52 minutes on green to even the match. Tundra needed 28 minutes to put the match away, winning on red again.
Russian Alan “Satanic” Gallyamov led Tundra with 21 kills in the three matches, averaging a 7/5/6.7 kill-death-assist ratio. Another Russian, Anton “dyrachyo” Shkredov, led the losers with an 11.3/4/12.3 KDA ratio.
In the day’s first match, Team Spirit beat Chimera Esports 2-1 in the lower-bracket semifinal. Spirt and Chimera earned the final two seeds in the playoff after each finished 4-3 in Group Stage 2. Chimera got the first map in 72 minutes on red but Spirit responded with a reverse sweep, winning in 25 and 82 minutes, each time on green.
Ukrainian Illya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk paced Spirit with a 12.3/2.4/14.3 KDA ratio, while fellow Ukrainian Artem “lorenof” Melnick posted an 11.7/6/11.7 KDA ratio in the loss. Chimera was eliminated with the loss, finishing in fourth place.
DreamLeague Season 25 prize pool (cash winning, EPT points, club reward)
1. $250,000, TBD, $40,000
2. $100,000, TBD, $30,000
3. $80,000, TBD, $25,000
4. $60,000, 2,450, $20,000 — Chimera Esports
5. $40,000, 1,785, $15,000 — Team Falcons
6. $35,000, 1,610, $15,000 — BetBoom Team
7. $30,000, 840, $12,500 — Team Liquid
8. $25,000, 560, $12,500 — HEROIC
9-10. $20,000, 350 points, $10,000 — Shopify Rebellion, Yakult Brothers
11-12. $17,500, 175 points, $10,000 — Moodeng Warriors, Gaimin Gladiators
13-14. $15,000, 98 points, $10,000 — Xtreme Gaming, BOOM Esports
15-16. $10,000, 42 points, $10,000 — 9Pandas, AVULUS
–Field Level Media