Tournament operator BLAST has announced a series of Dota 2 championships for the 2025-2026 seasons, called SLAM. A total of ten tournaments are planned, with the first one starting on November 26, 2024.
The debut BLAST SLAM tournament will begin with a group stage held online, while the final stages will take place at the BLAST studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. The prize pool for the championship is set at $1 million, and ten invited teams will participate, with no open qualifiers.
The tournament format will start by dividing the teams into two groups of five, where they will compete in a Round Robin format with best-of-one matches. No teams will be eliminated in this stage. The playoffs, called the Gauntlet Stage by BLAST, will follow, with team seeding based on their group stage performance.
Prize pool distribution for the BLAST SLAM I tournament
- 1st place — $400,000
- 2nd place — $200,000
- 3rd-4th places — $80,000
- 5th-6th places — $50,000
- 7th-8th places — $40,000
- 9th-10th places — $30,000
Schedule for the BLAST SLAM tournament series
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