The Gaimin Gladiators, PARIVISION, Tundra Esports and Crew Falcons emerged from the elimination part with sweeps on Sunday to advance to the playoffs on the Dota 2 Esports World Cup 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The quarterfinals are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. The elimination part started on Saturday with Xtreme Gaming, Crew Yandex, Talon Esports and Crew Falcons staying alive with 2-0 sweeps within the best-of-three matches.
The Esports World Cup 2025 is the ultimate championship of the third season of the ESL Professional Tour. Beforehand often known as the Riyadh Masters, the Esports World Cup takes place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and has a prize pool of $3 million, with $1 million in addition to 1,000 membership factors going to the workforce that is topped champion on subsequent Saturday.
The format consists of three phases: a gaggle stage (July 8-11) of 4 teams of 4 groups competing in a round-robin, an elimination part (July 12-13) formatted right into a gauntlet bracket that rewards high finishers from Part 1, then a remaining playoff stage (July 16-19), which is single elimination.
All matches in Part 1 are two video games, whereas the matches in Phases 2 and three are best-of-three till the best-of-five grand remaining.
On Sunday, PARIVISION knocked off Xtreme Gaming in 44 minutes and 47 minutes, each on inexperienced. The Gaimin Gladiators downs Crew Yandex in 26 minutes on pink and 34 minutes on inexperienced.
Tundra Esports dispatched Talon Esports in 33 minutes on pink and half-hour on inexperienced.
All three of the shedding sides in these matches had received on Saturday. Crew Falcons, nonetheless, received back-to-back matches, downing Natus Vincere in 39 minutes on pink and 35 minutes on inexperienced on Sunday.
Group stage winners who already superior to Part 3 had been Crew Spirit (Group A), BetBoom Crew (B), Aurora Gaming (C) and Crew Liquid (D).
Quarterfinal matches on Wednesday:
–Crew Spirit vs. Gaimin Gladiators
–Aurora Gaming vs. PARAVISION
–Winners play on Friday within the semifinals
Quarterfinals on Thursday:
–BetBoom Crew vs. Tundra Esports
–Crew Liquid vs. Crew Falcons
–Winners play on Friday within the semifinals
The semifinal winners play within the best-of-five grand remaining on Saturday; the semifinal losers battle in a best-of-three for third place the identical day.
Prize pool payouts and membership factors:
1. TBD, $1,000,000, 1,000
2. TBD, $500,000, 750
3. TBD, $300,000, 500
4. TBD, $200,000, 300
5-8, TBD, $125,000, 200
9-12. $75,000, Xtreme Gaming, Crew Yandex, Talon Esports, Natus Vincere
13-16. $50,000, Execration, Shopify Rise up, HEROIC, Virtus.professional
–Subject Degree Media
