ESL One Genting 2017
esl one genting dota esports championship tournament hosted esl took place genting highland malaysia january tournament involved eight team included three directly invited team five team represented qualifying region america china europe malaysia southeast asia final digital chaos defeated newbee – win tournament first major trophy rd place tournament went international champion wing gaming virtuspro dota freetoplay multiplayer online battle arena video game moba developed valve game two team consist five cooperating player battling destroy main base called ancient player controlling special unit called hero unique ability playstyle team manages destroy opponent team ancient first win game game played topdown perspective player see segment game map minimap showing ally revealed enemy outside fog war playercontrolled hero health ability status game map three symmetric path called lane connect two base automated defense turret positioned side periodically base spawn group weak nonplayable unit called creep automatically march lane attack every hostile unit building encounter hero killed midgame hero automatically respawn back base delay period length get progressively longer farther match tournament involved directly invited team regional qualifier winner regional qualifier took place five qualifying region america china europe malaysia southeast asia excluding malaysia october november qualifier used singleelimination format consisted two phase open qualifier main qualifier open qualifier used bestofone format four team qualified main qualifier main qualifier consisted team eight team directly invited four qualified team open qualifier match main qualifier except grand final used bestofthree format grand final used bestoffive format invited team tournament malaysianbased team fnatic international champion runnersup wing gaming digital chaos main event tournament took place arena star musical amphitheater capacity around seat located genting highland one popular tourist resort malaysia esl chose host tournament malaysia due massive popularity dota southeast asia group match used double elimination format playoff used single elimination format participating team divided group four first two match group used bestofone format rest tournament used bestofthree format exception grand final used bestoffive format loser first two match group move lower bracket face winner face take first playoff seed second playoff seed determined bygenting highland malaysia match lower bracket winner upper bracket loser defeated newbee – grand final digital chaos became champion tournament first major trophy win digital chaos best result runnersup international champion received u prize money esl confirmed tournament prize pool u u went champion runnersup received u tournament broadcast via dota builtin spectating client well via esl official live stream esl tv esl twitch channel estimated million people watched tournament online official site