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Listen up all Dota 2 players and fans! Today we are presenting the details regarding the online qualifiers for DreamHack Vengeance Dota 2 Cup at DreamHack Summer 2012. We also are very happy to announce the first six of the eight direct invites to the tournament.

The DreamHack Vengeance Dota 2 Cup at DHS12 will be one of the absolute highlights of the summer festival, today we are presenting the dates and structure for the online qualifiers where the winning teams will be rewarded a slot in the playoffs and the chance to battle it out with the worlds best teams at DreamHack this summer.

DreamHack Vengeance Dota 2 Cup DHS12 will have SEK 200 000 prize purse and feature some of the very best teams in the world. We are extremely hyped to welcome Natus Vincere, Counter Logic Gaming, Quantic Gaming, mousesports, Evil Geniuses and the DreamHack champions from Winter 2011 mTw as the first six teams to receive a direct invite.

Invited teams

Mortal Team Work
Natus Vincere
Counter Logic Gaming
Quantic Gaming
Evil Geniuses
mousesports

Note: The last two invites are already handed out and will be presented as soon we have final confirmation.

Online Qualifiers

Four spots are up for grabs through online qualifiers. These will be given out to the winners of each qualifiers. We allow up to 32 teams to play in each qualifier. The system is single elimination knock-out where all the matches are best-of-1, except the final game (round 5) which is best-of-3.

NOTE: DreamHack Vengeance Dota 2 Cup at DreamHack Summer 2012 is an offline event in Jönköping, Sweden. Please only sign up if your team can actually attend this event. DreamHack will not pay for your costs regarding travel, accommodation or entrance fee.

Qualifier 1
April 24, 19.00 CEST — Round 1-3
April 25, 19.00 CEST — Round 4-5
Registration opens: April 16, 20.00 CEST
REGISTER HERE!

Qualifier 2
April 28, 15.00 CEST — Round 1-5
Registration opens: April 26, 20.00 CEST

REGISTER HERE!

Qualifier 3
May 1, 19.00 CEST — Round 1-3
May 2, 19.00 CEST — Round 4-5
Registration opens: April 29, 20.00 CEST

REGISTER HERE!

Qualifier 4
May 5, 15.00 CEST — Round 1-5
Registration opens: May 3, 20.00 CEST

REGISTER HERE!

BYOC Qualifier at DreamHack Summer 2012
June 16.
REGISTER HERE!
Note: This is a LAN tournament on DreamHack Summer 2012 – 5 BYOC tickets and confirmation on location is mandatory

DreamHack Vengeance Dota 2 Cup DHS12 Tournament structure

- 16 Teams
- 8 direct invites
- 4 slots from online qualifiers
- 4 slots from BYOC qualifier

Online Qualifiers
- 4 online qualifiers
- Best of 1 Single elimination
- 32 teams / qualifier
- Winner get slot in play offs at DreamHack Summer 2012

BYOC Qualifier at DreamHack Summer 2012
- 256 teams
- Best of 1 Single elimination
- Top 4 goes to the play off stage

Play offs
Groupstage
- 4 groups with 4 teams in each group, games are best of 1

Playoffs
- Quarter finals, best of 1
- Semi finals, best of 3
- Grand final, best of 3

Contact DreamHack Dota 2 administration
Mail: dota2@dreamhack.se
IRC: #dh.dota2 @quakenet

RULES

Dreamhack Summer 2012 Rules for Dota 2 — Qualifiers

Ruleset
Attendance and communication

Idle in #dh.dota2 (IRC: quakenet) atleast one hour before the qualifier starts. If this is not done, your team may lose the spot to another team. If you know you that this is impossible, contact admins beforehand and it can be worked through.

All scheduling will happen through IRC, in the channel #dh.dota2. If you don’t know how to operate IRC, we suggest you use http://webchat.quakenet.org during the time of the qualifier.
Use your teamname as the nickname or atleast add the teamtag in front of your regular nickname.

Connection

Host game by selecting “Practice Game” and setting a password for the lobby. The other team can join the game by filtering by passwords. Select Server: Europe (unless other server is decided)

Behaviour

Flaming and bad-mouthing is not allowed. No offensive nicknames are allowed.

Choosing sides

If there is an issue, the winner of a “coin toss” gets to decide either if they want to choose
first pick /second pick, or
Radiant / Dire

The other team (who didn’t win the coin toss) decides the other factor.
Map-set

The version to play is the current Tournament Version. Only spectators greenlighted by Dreamhack-admins are allowed (such as streamers, referees)
The mode is Captains Mode. There are no restrictions in terms of heroes or items.

Disconnects, pauses and crashes

Pausing is not allowed during picks unless the captain disconnects.
If the game crashes during the picks, the game will be remade and the same picks will be picked.
Players have rights to pause the game if needed. Be sure to announce the pause in all-chat a few seconds before if not an emergency.
The reason for the pause must be reasonable. Both teams must agree on resuming before resuming the game.
If a player disconnects, the player’s team should pause the game right away.

Pooling: Rules about sharing items

You can buy or give following items to a teammate:
Scroll of Teleportation
Healing Salve
Clarity Potion
Tango
Smoke of Deceit
Dust of Appearance
Observer Ward
Sentry Ward
It is allowed to share passive regeneration items (such as ring of health, void stone, etc). Bottle is allowed to share as well, but you may not buy it for another player.
You may never sell an item that has been given to you from an ally.
Admins got the final word regarding what counts as pooling and what doesn’t.

Bugs and glitches

You are not allowed to use bugs or glitches in the game for your advantage. Each team is responsible to know about bugs that may effect the game. You can read more about bugs on the official bug forum dev.dota2.com

If bugs are used intentionally to your advantage, the team will be disqualified from the current event.
If a game-breaking bug occur, you should pause the game, and contact an admin.
If the bug is noticeable for both teams and no pause is made, and admins aren’t contacted until the end of the game – the game result stands.

Game end

The game is over when either team’s Ancient Fortress is destroyed or when a team forfeits and disconnects from the game.

Admin is God

Rules can be changed during the tournament if admins consider it necessary. Admins will always have the final word. Note that rules can be changed with out prior notice