GESC Indonesia Group Format and Division: RRQ Directly Faced With Na'Vi

The GESC Indonesia Tournament will start on March 15. Eight teams Dota 2 from all over the world will compete in Indonesia for the prize pool US$300,000 (approximately Rp4.1 billion) and 300 Dota 2 Pro Circuit points.

This tournament itself has two phases, namely the group phase and also the playoffs. In the group phase, eight teams will be divided into two groups and compete in a GSL format. Opening match and scramble match runner-up the group will be played with the format best of one. While the rest are played with the format best of three.

Results in this group stage are for seeding for playoffs. In other words, the team that ranks last in the group will not immediately drop out of the tournament, but will have to go through a tougher path in playoffs.

Half playoffs itself has a format single elimination bracket. In the first round, the four teams that finished third and fourth in each group must compete in the format best of one to advance to the quarter-finals.

The two teams that advance to the quarter-finals must face the team that wins the two groups in the format best of three. After that, the two winning teams of the quarter-finals will face off against the group winners who are already waiting in the semifinals, once again with the format best of three. The remaining two teams will then compete in the final round in the format best of three.

In this tournament, Indonesia got one slots participants and will be represented by Rex Regum Qeon after winning the qualification. As you can see above, they are in the same group as Evil Geniuses, Infamous, and Natus Vincere (Na’Vi). No half-hearted, they had to directly face Na’Vi in the first match.

Although this tournament didn’t bring in top teams like Team Liquid and Virtus.Pro, the opponents RRQ had to face in this tournament were far more experienced. We’ll see how they perform on March 15th.

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