The Worldwide 2025 (TI14) is across the nook, particularly it begins as early as June 4 for sure areas. It’s some of the anticipated qualifiers as slots to play at TI14 are at stake.
The Worldwide 2025 Regional Qualifiers (Picture credit score: Wykrhm Reddy)
TI14 Regional Qualifiers Format and Crew Placements
The TI14 regional qualifiers characteristic a double-elimination bracket with best-of-three matches. A number of groups, explicit the open-qualifier runner-up winners obtain placements one spherical earlier than the quarterfinal. Primarily, they should play an additional spherical, which the first-place winners don’t. However, it’s nonetheless a double-elimination bracket, so there’s all the time a lifeline for a second likelihood in decrease bracket.
For regional qualifiers that solely have one qualifying slot, resembling Japanese Europe, China, North and South America, the 2 finalists of their respective qualifier will play a best-of-five finals to find out who will get to play at TI14. Whereas for the regional qualifiers who’ve two qualifying slots, there shall be two finals, the higher and decrease bracket finals. The 4 finalists will compete in a best-of-three finals, the place the winners of every finals will qualify for TI14.
TI14 Open Qualifiers
In case you are all for catching the open qualifiers, these start as early as June 2. As much as sixteen collaborating groups will play in a single-elimination bracket. Every open qualifier could have 2-3 qualifying slots to play of their respective regional qualifier.
Dota 2 TI14 Regional Qualifiers Direct Invitations (Picture credit score: Wykrhm Reddy)
Dota 2 groups collaborating at TI14 Regional Qualifiers
Whereas the remainder of the regional qualifier members are to be determined over the upcoming days, we have already got a listing of direct invitations on the TI14 regional qualifiers. These embrace groups which were persistently participated all through the season however nonetheless haven’t qualify for TI14.
Western Europe TI14 Regional Qualifier Groups
Over on the hottest Dota 2 area, WEU TI14 regional qualifiers have OG, MOUZ, Nigma Galaxy and AVULUS. Amongst these groups, AVULUS is definitely essentially the most completed this season, the place they had been staples at PGL Wallachia and ESL One tournaments.
OG and Nigma Galaxy have its personal repute as a long-time powerhouse namesake, however wrestle to search out consistency of their efficiency. Nonetheless, MOUZ would possibly simply emerge as a possible candidate to win the WEU TI14 qualifiers themselves. Earlier in Might 2025, they’ve secretly introduced collectively Abed “Abed” Yusop and Melchior “Seleri” Hillenkamp as pillars for this new Esports title.
Japanese Europe TI14 Regional Qualifier Groups
The EEU TI14 regional qualifier comes off because the hardest area between its counterparts. With a TI-winning roster at Aurora Gaming, followers are rooting for them to comb this regional qualifier with ease.
Natus Vincere, L1GA and One Transfer‘s line-up has a number of promising gamers, however it’s a far cry from what Aurora Gaming’s seasoned crew has to supply.
China TI14 Regional Qualifier Groups
China’s crippling Dota 2 Esports scene turns into blatantly clear when there are solely two direct invitations of their TI14 regional qualifier. Yakult Brothers and Xtreme Gaming have promising Dota 2 gamers, which is likely to be the one ones price mentioning as potential candidates to win this qualifier. Nonetheless, we’d maintain an eye fixed out for Vici Gaming’s return to professional Dota 2, as they try the open qualifiers.
Southeast Asia TI14 Regional Qualifier Groups
If there’s ever a area that didn’t deserve two slots to play in TI14, it’s the SEA. Regardless of having six direct invitations within the SEA TI14 regional qualifier, none of those groups have completed any main feat all through the season.
Nonetheless, if we had been to say two candidates, it’s Talon Esports and BOOM Esports. Talon Esports introduced again the Thai prodigy, Nuengnara “23savage” Teeramahanon, so it will be fascinating to see if they will make it work. Whereas BOOM Esports additionally has its justifiable share of prodigies, notably Filipino skills, resembling Armel “Armel” Tabios and Timothy John “TIMS” Randrup, to call a number of.
Trailer Park Boys, The MongolZ, Ivory and Execration make up the remainder of the direct invitations at SEA TI14 regional qualifiers.
North America TI14 Regional Qualifier Groups
Very like China, the NA TI14 regional qualifier stays stagnated because it has all the time been. This time round, even Nouns Esports not take part on this area’s crippling professional scene. Anyhow, NA followers can nonetheless depend on Shopify Rebel and Wildcard as respectable candidates to qualify and compete at TI14.
South America TI14 Regional Qualifier Groups
Final however not least, the SA TI14 regional qualifier shockingly has respectable groups themselves. Whereas it’s simple to ignore the SA area’s prowess, this area has introduced many historic groups all through the Worldwide Championships with sudden underdogs.
If there’s one crew we had prefer to make that occur at TI14 once more, it’s HEROIC. This SA consultant is the area’s greatest wager at making a reputation for themselves at TI14. Furthermore, they aren’t too shabby themselves since they received PGL Wallachia S2. Though they’ve skilled fairly a turmoil since they kicked David “Parker” Nicho Flores, HEROIC continues to be a frequent SA crew in lots of main tournaments in 2025.
One other crew to look out for is OG’s SA crew, OG.LATAM, which they envisioned to beat HEROIC, Edge, Crew Den and different potential SA squads.
The Worldwide 2025 Regional Qualifier is the place hopes grow to be a actuality and desires are shattered for others. Catch the motion dwell over at PGL’s official Twitch channel.
