Chinese DOTA2 Teams' Struggles in 2024 Esports World Cup Qualifier

TapTechNews July 6th news, the second day of the 2024 Esports World Cup qualifier ended early this morning. The Chinese team AzureRay successively lost 0:2 to MOUZ and the Heroic team, failing to win a single game for two consecutive days and losing 8 games in a row, and has been confirmed to be eliminated from this event.

The qualifier stage adopts a double group system of AB, with a BO2 double round-robin format for each group of 6 teams. The top three in each group advance directly, and the sixth is directly eliminated. The fourth and fifth in each group will have a cross-BO3 showdown to determine the last two group stage spots.

The other two Chinese region teams, G2xiG and LGD, are also not in good shape, both at the bottom of Group A with a 2-win-6-loss record. Today at 17:00, the two teams will have a direct confrontation, and the losing team will be directly eliminated, while the AR team will play against the Nouns team at 19:45.

TapTechNews attaches today's schedule:

Currently, the directly invited XG team has almost become the last hope in this year's event. They will start their group stage journey from July 10th to July 14th. A total of 16 teams participate in the group stage, including 8 directly invited teams and 8 teams advancing from the qualifier. The 16 teams are divided into two groups for a Bo2 points-based round-robin. The top four in each group advance to the winner's bracket of the knockout stage, the fifth and sixth to the loser's bracket, and the last two are directly eliminated.

The knockout stage competition time is from July 16th to July 21st. The knockout stage is a double-elimination format. The final is Bo5, and the rest of the games are all Bo3. The final will be held at 23:00 Beijing time on July 21st..