2024 Saudi Esports World Cup's

TapTechNews July 5th news, on the first match day of the 2024 Saudi Esports World Cup's DOTA2 project and the Riyadh Masters qualifier stage, which ended early this morning, two of the three Chinese teams participating in this stage ranked at the bottom of their respective groups.

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

On the first match day, the domestic team LGD.Taobao in Group A tied 1:1 with two opponents, Virtus.pro (i.e., VP) and beastcoast successively, and was tied for second place in the group with the same 2-2 record as the other four teams;

While the domestic team G2xiG in the same group as LGD.Taobao tied with Entity in the first round and then lost to BlacklistInternational in the second round, ranking at the bottom of Group A with a 1-3 record;

In terms of Group B, the domestic team AzureRay consecutively lost to Aurora and PSGQuest 0:2, ranking last in Group B with a 0-4 record, and the promotion situation is rather risky.

The second match day of the 2024 Saudi Esports World Cup's DOTA2 project qualifier stage will start at 5:00 PM Beijing time today, and both AB groups will also play two rounds of BO2 in the second match day.

TapTechNews attached the specific schedule of the second match day of the DOTA2 project qualifier as follows: