ESL One Birmingham 2024: format, prize pool distribution, participants and more

Perhaps the highlight of April on the professional Dota 2 scene is ESL One Birmingham 2024, the second LAN championship in the ESL Pro Tour Season 2 tournament series. In this article you will learn about when and where the tournament will be held, what is the format of the competition, how the prize pool will be distributed among the participants, as well as who exactly will go to England to fight for the coveted prizes.

Dates and venues of ESL One Birmingham 2024

ESL One Birmingham 2024 Long Start on the 22nd of April and will run until the 28th of April this year. The tournament will be LAN-format, but only the last three days of the play-offs will be played in front of the public. The rest of the matches will be played without spectators.

The venue for the tournament is the Sun Resorts World Arena, which is located in Birmingham, England, and can seat up to 15,685 spectators. This arena is known for holding various sporting and musical events, including concerts of Pendulum, Judas Priest and other world stars. It is worth noting that the last time a major Dota 2 tournament was held in Birmingham back in 2018, then ESL One Birmingham 2018 was hosted by Arena Birmingham.

ESL One Birmingham 2024 Format

ESL One Birmingham 2024 will take place in a fairly traditional Dota 2 format. Firstly, the 12 teams will be split into two groups within the group stage where they will play bo2 matches in Single Round-Robin format. The top 2 teams from each group will advance to the top of the play-offs grid. The 3rd-4th place finishers from each group will go to the bottom of the grid. The two worst teams from each sextet will finish ESL One Birmingham 2024 in 9th-12th place in the standings.

Eight teams will play in the play-offs stage, which will be placed in the Double-Elimination grid. Four competitors will start at the bottom of the grid and will have no margin for error while the other four teams will be Long-Segged from the grid winners. All matches except the grand finals will be played in bo3 format. The champion of ESL One Birmingham 2024 will be determined by the result of bo5 confrontation.

ESL One Birmingham 2024 prize pool distribution

ESL One Birmingham 2024 will feature the classic $1,000,000 prize pool for ESL tournaments. There will also be 12 competitors competing for the 26,640 EPT points needed to qualify for the Riyadh Masters 2024, the final event of ESL Pro Tour Dota 2 Season 2, which will be part of the Esports World Cup 2024.

The distribution of prize money and ranking points at ESL One Birmingham 2024 is as follows:

ESL One Birmingham 2024 participants

As previously mentioned, ESL One Birmingham 2024 will feature 12 teams, 4 of which made it to the tournament directly due to their high ranking on the EPT leaderboard. There are also 2 teams from Eastern Europe, while Western Europe, China, Southeast Asia, North America, South America, and the Middle East and North Africa region will be represented by one team each.

The list of participants for ESL One Birmingham 2024 can be found below:

• Gaimin Gladiators
• BetBoom Team
• Xtreme Gaming
• Team Liquid
• Tundra Esports
• Team Spirit
• 1win
• Team Falcons
• G2.iG
• Talon Esports
• Shopify Rebellion
• Heroic

ESL One Birmingham 2024 features all ranked regions with the largest representation of teams from Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Based on the line-up, the prestige and the importance of the tournament, a week of extremely exciting Dota 2 games awaits all eSports fans in April, which is definitely not to be missed.