The 2022 Dota 2 pro circuit kicks off later this month – here are the details

The 2021 version of the Dota 2 pro racing circuit is barely around the box, and the multiplayer game's developer Valve has dropped a whole bunch of information on what to expect when its archetypical season kicks off. The studio has now declared the format will be broken thrown into cardinal seasons in the run-leading to the MOBA game's Supranational 2021 event later this year, with the eldest opening in a fortnight's clip.

According to Valve, the 2021 Dota 2 pro circuit's first flavor launches on January 18, running through to February 28 ("March 14 for China with a break in the middle"), followed past the second in take form, which runs April 13 to May 23. As the studio's outlined before, each season will see six-week-long leagues followed past a prima at the end, with majors one and deuce held March 25 to April 4 and June 2 to June 13, respectively.

Once these seasons are up, there'll follow many qualifiers held to fill The International 2021's remaining slots ahead of the event, which will personify held in Stockholm in Grand this fourth dimension some.

Here's the schedule, via Valve:

Matchless change this year is that DPC points from the premature season won't be used to seed teams for the climax event's leagues – instead, the "top foursome teams in best form from for each one area [volition] be directly qualified to the upper division", with the left 12 teams for both past divisions being distinct through a serial of closed and open qualifiers. This change is due to several teams having "experienced a circle of roster changes passim the year and performance has varied among teams from the previous DPC temper", the dev explains.

At the league's end, the top teams from the upper division of each region will then qualify to enter the prima, with the breakdowns of the 18 slots for the first major organism atomic number 3 follows: spinning top Little Jo for both EC and China, and go past three for each of the SEA, CIS, Sodium, and SA regions.

"The buns cardinal teams of the upper division in each region will be relegated to the lower division, while the top deuce teams of the lower division will represent promoted, "Valve says. "The bottom two teams of the lower section testament be eliminated from the conference and subject qualifiers will decide which are the two teams that will occupy those slots on the next season."

Before the end of Jan, the studio adds, the DPC pro circuit will let intermingled into the game's node, and then you'll beryllium able to catch info on the contest's standings, agenda, and tournament in-plot. To boot, at that place'll represent extraordinary "seasonal rooter affirm bundles" forthcoming to buy, the dev says.