Dota 2 Bali Major 2023 playoffs: Schedule, live updates, where to watch, and more

Modified Jul 13, 2023 15:34 GMT

Dota 2 Bali Major 2023 playoffs (Image via IO Esports)

As we move to the business end of the Dota 2 Bali Major 2023, fans around the world are eagerly waiting to see who will rise to the occasion and snatch the championship. The Group Stage has filtered out the qualifying teams into the upper and lower brackets of the playoffs, while six teams have been eliminated from the pool.

Dota 2 Bali Major 2023 Group Stage began on June 29, 2023, and lasted until July 3, 2023. Eighteen teams were divided into two groups and battled in a single round-robin format of Bo2. The top four from each group made it to the upper bracket of the playoffs, while the fifth and sixth-placed teams went to the lower bracket.

The remaining Dota 2 outfits were eliminated. They are:

Blacklist International
Bleed Esports
Execration
nouns
Invictus Gaming
Evil Geniuses

Dota 2 Bali Major 2023 playoffs: Format, schedule, and more

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Organized by IO Esports and Epulze Gaming, the Bali Major 2023 is the third and the final Major of the ongoing Dota 2 Pro Circuit (DPC) season. Thus, teams are trying to obtain as many DPC points as possible in order to secure a direct invite to this year's The International (TI) invite.

The prize distribution and the DPC points available at the event are as follows:

Standing	Prize Money	DPC Points	Team
1st	$200,000	600	Gaimin Gladiators
2nd	$100,000	550	Team Liquid
3rd	$75,000	500	Tundra Esports
4th	$50,000	450	Quest Esports
5th-6th	$25,000	400	PSG.LGD \|\| 9Pandas
7th-8th	$12,500	300	Azure Ray \|\| beastcoast
9th-12th			Team Spirit \|\| BetBoom Team \|\| Shopify Rebellion \|\| Team Aster
13th-14th			Blacklist International \|\| Bleed Esports
15th-16th			Execration \|\| nouns
17th-18th			Invictus Gaming \|\| Evil Geniuses

The playoffs are scheduled to be held from July 5, 2023, to July 9, 2023. Teams will fight in a double-elimination bracket of Bo3. Only the Grand Final is stipulated to be Bo5. The qualified teams are as follows:

Team Liquid
beastcoast
Tundra Esports
Team Aster
Team Spirit
Shopify Rebellion
Quest Esports
BetBoom Team
Gaimin Gladiators
PSG.LGD
9Pandas
Azure Ray

The final group standings are as follows:

Group A

Standings	Team	Record
1	Team Liquid (Qualified to Upper Bracket)	4-4-0
2	beastcoast (Qualified to Upper Bracket)	2-6-0
3	Tundra Esports (Qualified to Upper Bracket)	2-6-0
4	Team Aster (Qualified to Upper Bracket)	4-2-2
5	Team Spirit (Qualified to Lower Bracket)	2-5-1
6	Shopify Rebellion (Qualified to Lower Bracket)	1-4-3
7	Blacklist International (eliminated)	1-4-3
8	Execration (eliminated)	0-5-3
9	Invictus Gaming (eliminated)	1-2-5

Group B

Standings	Team	Record
1	Quest Esports (Qualified to Upper Bracket)	5-2-1
2	BetBoom Team (Qualified to Upper Bracket)	4-2-2
3	Gaimin Gladiators (Qualified to Upper Bracket)	3-4-1
4	PSG.LGD (Qualified to Upper Bracket)	3-4-1
5	9Pandas (Qualified to Lower Bracket)	3-2-3
6	Azure Ray (Qualified to Lower Bracket)	2-3-3
7	Bleed Esports (eliminated)	2-3-3
8	nouns (eliminated)	1-3-4
9	Evil Geniuses (eliminated)	0-3-5