Majors

Majors are tournaments sponsored by Valve. They must have a prize pool of at least 500,000$ and will receive an additional 500,000$ prize pool from Valve on top of that. To be eligible to be a Major, the tournaments need to have at least one qualifier for each of the primary regions (NA, SA, SEA, CN, EU and CIS) and have a LAN finals component. The schedule of these Majors is managed by Valve.

Based on a teams performance, the total prize pool and the time of the year of these Majors, as well as the Minors, Valve will award the individual players on the teams with Qualifying Points for The International.

Roster restrictions

In order to qualify for Majors, professional teams must adhere to a set of rules that limit roster changes. This system was designed to create a stabler competitive scene by restricting frequent player trading. Detailed rules and team management can be found on the registration page.

• In order to participate in a Majors tournament, players must be locked into a team.
• Locked players cannot leave the team, or be kicked.

Tournaments

2018/2019 Season

Tournament	Date	Teams	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place
The Kuala Lumpur Major	2018-11-09 — 2018-11-18	16
?	2019-01-17 — 2019-01-27	16
?	2019-03-14 — 2019-03-24	16
?	2019-05-02 — 2019-05-12	16
?	2019-06-20 — 2019-06-30	16

2017/2018 Season

Tournament	Date	Teams	Winner	Runner-up	Third place	Fourth place
ESL One Hamburg 2017	2017-10-26 — 2017-10-29	8	Virtus.pro	Team Secret	Team Liquid	Newbee
DreamLeague Season 8	2017-12-01 — 2017-12-03	8	Team Secret	Team Liquid	Evil Geniuses	Natus Vincere
ESL One Katowice 2018	2018-02-20 — 2018-02-25	16	Virtus.pro	Vici Gaming	Team Liquid	Fnatic
The Bucharest Major	2018-03-04 — 2018-03-11	16	Virtus.pro	VGJ.Thunder	Newbee	Team Liquid
Dota 2 Asia Championships 2018	2018-03-29 — 2018-04-07	16	Mineski	PSG.LGD	Virtus.pro	TNC Pro Team
EPICENTER XL	2018-04-27 — 2018-05-06	12	PSG.LGD	Team Liquid	FlyToMoon	Virtus.pro
MDL Changsha Major	2018-05-14 — 2018-05-20	12	PSG.LGD	VGJ.Storm	Vici Gaming	Newbee
ESL One Birmingham 2018	2018-05-23 — 2018-05-27	12	Virtus.pro	OpTic Gaming	paiN Gaming	Fnatic
China Dota2 Supermajor	2018-06-02 — 2018-06-10	16	Team Liquid	Virtus.pro	PSG.LGD	Team Secret
The International 2018	2018-08-15 — 2018-08-25	18	OG	PSG.LGD	Evil Geniuses	Team Liquid

External links

• The 2017 – 2018 Competitive Season
• Registration and Team Management

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