The Boston Major 2016

League Information

Series:

Dota Major Championships

Organizer:

PGL

Sponsor(s):

Valve

Type:

Offline

Location:

Boston

Venue:

Wang Theater

Format:

Group Stage
Single-elimination bracket

Prize Pool:

$3,000,000 USD

Start Date:

2016-12-03

End Date:

2016-12-10

Game:

Dota 2

Version:

6.88f

Teams:

16

Dota TV Ticket:

Free in Dota 2 Client

Liquipedia Tier:

Tier 1

Tier:

Major Championship

Links

Chronology

Manila Major 2016

Kiev Major 2017

The Boston Major is the first Major of the 2016-2017 season. The main event takes place at the Wang Theater in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Notably, The Boston Major is the first publisher sponsored event to not feature a double-elimination bracket. Instead, the 16 participating teams will be seeded into a single elimination bracket based on their performance in the group stage.^[1]

Format

Open Qualifiers - October 23rd - October 26th, 2016
- Eight Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers, two brackets for each region.
  - The winners of each Regional Qualifier will advance to the respective Main Qualifier.
Main Qualifiers - October 27th - October 31st, 2016
- Four Regional Qualifiers.
  - One group containing all teams, with the top four teams advancing to the Regional Double-elimination Playoff Bracket.
  - The winner and runner-up of each Regional Playoff Bracket will join the eight directly invited teams in Boston.
Group Stage - December 3rd - December 4th, 2016
- Four groups of four teams
  - Bo3 GSL double-elimination format
  - The top seed of each group will get a random bottom seed from another group as the opponent in the Main Event.
  - The second seed will similarly face off against a random third seed as the opponent.
Main Event - December 7th - December 10th, 2016
- Teams are seeded into a single-elimination bracket after the Group Stage.
  - All games are Bo3, with Bo5 grand finals.

Prize Pool

$3,000,000 USD are spread among the participants as seen below:

OG (from left to right):
N0tail, s4, Fly, ana and JerAx.

Participants

Player Info

Invited Teams

Wings Gaming

1	shadow
2	bLink
3	Faith_bian
4	y`
5	iceice


Invited

Digital Chaos

1	Resolut1on
2	w33
3	MoonMeander
4	MiSeRy
5	Saksa
C	Blitz
C	BuLba


Invited

Evil Geniuses

1	Arteezy
2	Suma1L
3	UNiVeRsE
4	zai
5	Cr1t-
C	Fear


Invited

Newbee

1	uuu9
2	Sccc
3	kpii
4	Faith
5	Kaka


Invited

EHOME

1	Sylar
2	old chicken
3	eLeVeN
4	LaNm
5	Garder


Invited

LGD Gaming

Notes

1	Ame
2	Maybe
3	Jixing
4	Xz
5	Victoria


Invited

OG

1	N0tail
2	ana
3	s4
4	JerAx
5	Fly
C	7ckngMad


Invited

MVP Phoenix

1	Velo
2	QO
3	Forev
4	Febby
5	DuBu


Invited

Qualified Teams

Team NP

1	Aui_2000
2	EternaLEnVy
3	MSS
4	SVG
5	1437


Americas

compLexity Gaming

1	Moo
2	canceL^^
3	monkeys-forever
4	Zfreek
5	melonzz


Americas

LGD.Forever Young

Notes

1	END
2	Super
3	Yao
4	xiao8
5	DDC


China

iG Vitality

Notes

1	Paparazi灬
2	Sakata
3	InJuly
4	BurNIng
5	Q


China

Ad Finem

1	Madara
2	ThuG
3	SkyLark
4	Maybe Next Time
5	SsaSpartan
C	SKANKS224


Europe

Virtus.pro

1	RAMZES666
2	No[o]ne
3	9pasha
4	Lil
5	Solo


Europe

Team Faceless

1	Black^
2	Jabz
3	iceiceice
4	xy-
5	NutZ


Southeast Asia

WarriorsGaming.Unity

1	Ahjit
2	NaNa
3	KaNG
4	Ahfu
5	xNova-


Southeast Asia

Group Stage

Group A

Group A
1.	Digital Chaos	2-0	4-0
2.	Wings Gaming	2-1	5-2
3.	WarriorsGaming.Unity	1-2	2-5
4.	LGD.Forever Young	0-2	0-4

Matches

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Opening Matches

Winners Match

Losers Match

Decider Match

Group B

Group B
1.	Virtus.pro	2-0	4-0
2.	Newbee	2-1	4-2
3.	Team NP	1-2	2-5
4.	MVP Phoenix	0-2	1-4

Matches

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Opening Matches

Winners Match

Losers Match

Decider Match

Group C

Group C
1.	LGD Gaming	2-0	4-0
2.	compLexity Gaming	2-1	4-4
3.	Evil Geniuses	1-2	4-4
4.	Team Faceless	0-2	0-4

Matches

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Opening Matches

Winners Match

Losers Match

Decider Match

Group D

Group D
1.	OG	2-0	4-2
2.	EHOME	2-1	5-4
3.	Ad Finem	1-2	4-5
4.	iG.Vitality	0-2	2-4

Matches

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Opening Matches

Winners Match

Losers Match

Decider Match

Main Event

Round 1

R1

Quarterfinals

Quarters

QF

Semifinals

Semis

SF

Grand Final

Final

GF

Trivia

This was the first Valve-sponsored event that Puppey did not attend as a player, as Team Secret finished 4th in the Europe Qualifier. The same went for MMY, who was inactive at the time.
MiSeRy and DDC became the only players to have attended every single Valve event as an active player. UNiVeRsE had also attended every Valve event, but was only a sub during The International 2011 while Hao attended the major, but only as a sub for Newbee.
Jabz became the first Thai player to attend a Valve event since The International 2011.

Additional Content

Streams

dotamajor on Twitch.tv
dotamajor2 on Twitch.tv
dotamajor3 on Twitch.tv
dotamajor4 on Twitch.tv
dotamajors on YouTube
dota2 on Facebook
dotamajorRU on Twitch.tv
dotamajorRU2 on Twitch.tv
dotamajorRU3 on Twitch.tv
dotamajorRU4 on Twitch.tv
FroggedTV on Twitch.tv
Dota2tv.pl on Twitch.tv
Spaziogames on Twitch.tv
bostonmajor on PandaTV

Broadcast Talent

Host:
- Machine (Alex Richardson)

Commentators:
- Capitalist (Austin Walsh)
- Godz (David Parker)
- LD (David Gorman)
- Merlini (Ben Wu)
- ODPixel (Owen Davies)
- TobiWan (Toby Dawson)

Observers:
- Skrff (Rikard Holm Melin)
- Weppas (Johan Westberg)

Analysts:
- Fogged (Ioannis Loucas)
- Purge (Kevin Godec)
- PyrionFlax (Ted Forsyth)
- Sheever (Jorien van der Heijden)
- Winter (Chan Litt Binn)

Interviewers:
- AutumnWindz (Joshua Lee)
- KBBQ (Jack Chen)
- SirActionSlacks (Jake Kanner)

Host:
- Faker (Ivan Demkin)

Commentators:
- 4ce (Nikita Kotkov)
- CaspeRRR (Roman Lepokhin)
- Droog (Dmytro Chumachenko)
- GodHunt (Viktor Volkov)
- LighTofHeaveN (Dmitry Kupriyanov)
- v1lat (Vitalii Volochai)

Analysts:
- Goblak (Artur Kostenko)
- NS (Yaroslav Kuznetsov)
- PGG (Vladimir Anosov)
- XBOCT (Oleksandr Dashkevych)

Host:
- BBC (Zhang Hongsheng)

Commentators:
- 5400 (Yang Huaining)
- 78 (Du Junnan)
- FreeAgain (Hao Peng)
- Haitao (Zhou Lingxiang)
- MengLuoKe (Yang Zhou)
- Mrrr (Meng Rui)
- Wind (Wang Zhibo)

Analysts:
- 357 (Yao Yi)
- AA (Li Qiming)
- Ams (Chen Juan)
- SDN (Shi Danni)
- Yaya (Chen Ya)

Player Profiles

2016-12-08 | The Boston Major - Player Profiles: JerAx (OG) by PGL
2016-12-08 | The Boston Major - Player Profiles: Rose (Team NP) by PGL
2016-12-08 | The Boston Major - Player Profiles: kpii (Newbee) by PGL
2016-12-09 | The Boston Major - Player Profiles: MiSeRy (Digital Chaos) by PGL

Team Intros

Additional Data

Statistics

Picks

Radiant Side

Dire Side

Hero

∑

W

L

WR

%T

∑

W

L

WR

∑

W

L

WR

Details

1

Rubick

42

23

19

54.76%

49.41%

19

15

4

78.95%

23

8

15

34.78%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	AF	9	6	3	66.67%
2	DC	5	4	1	80.00%
3	WG.U	4	2	2	50.00%
4	Newbee	3	3	0	100.00%
5	OG	3	2	1	66.67%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Ogre Magi	10	6	4	60.00%
2	Luna	9	7	2	77.78%
3	Juggernaut	8	5	3	62.50%
4	Nyx Assassin	8	5	3	62.50%
5	Timbersaw	8	5	3	62.50%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Shadow Demon	12	7	5	58.33%
2	Juggernaut	10	5	5	50.00%
3	Sand King	9	7	2	77.78%
4	Dragon Knight	9	5	4	55.56%
5	Ogre Magi	9	5	4	55.56%

2

Ogre Magi

40

17

23

42.50%

47.06%

20

11

9

55.00%

20

6

14

30.00%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	EHOME	7	4	3	57.14%
2	AF	6	3	3	50.00%
3	Newbee	5	3	2	60.00%
4	EG	5	1	4	20.00%
5	VP	3	2	1	66.67%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Rubick	10	6	4	60.00%
2	Nyx Assassin	9	5	4	55.56%
3	Juggernaut	7	2	5	28.57%
4	Sniper	6	3	3	50.00%
5	Clockwerk	6	2	4	33.33%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Mirana	12	5	7	41.67%
2	Shadow Demon	11	8	3	72.73%
3	Rubick	9	4	5	44.44%
4	Batrider	9	1	8	11.11%
5	Luna	8	4	4	50.00%

3

Luna

34

21

13

61.76%

40.00%

24

16

8

66.67%

10

5

50.00%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	OG	5	5	0	100.00%
2	EHOME	5	2	3	40.00%
3	AF	4	3	1	75.00%
4	NP	4	2	2	50.00%
5	WG.U	4	2	2	50.00%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Shadow Demon	16	9	7	56.25%
2	Rubick	9	7	2	77.78%
3	Legion Commander	7	6	1	85.71%
4	Timbersaw	7	5	2	71.43%
5	Sand King	7	4	3	57.14%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Shadow Demon	13	8	5	61.54%
2	Juggernaut	9	6	3	66.67%
3	Clockwerk	8	6	2	75.00%
4	Mirana	8	4	4	50.00%
5	Ogre Magi	8	4	4	50.00%

4

Shadow Demon

33

17

16

51.52%

38.82%

17

11

6

64.71%

16

6

10

37.50%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	OG	6	4	2	66.67%
2	AF	6	2	4	33.33%
3	EG	4	3	1	75.00%
4	NP	4	1	3	25.00%
5	WG.U	3	1	2	33.33%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Luna	16	9	7	56.25%
2	Mirana	11	7	4	63.64%
3	Dragon Knight	8	3	5	37.50%
4	Slardar	7	6	1	85.71%
5	Clockwerk	7	2	5	28.57%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Luna	13	5	8	38.46%
2	Rubick	12	5	7	41.67%
3	Ogre Magi	11	3	8	27.27%
4	Warlock	7	2	5	28.57%
5	Sniper	6	4	2	66.67%

5

Mirana

29

17

12

58.62%

34.12%

13

9

4

69.23%

16

8

50.00%

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Played By Teams
	Team	∑	W	L	WR
1	coL	7	3	4	42.86%
2	AF	4	2	2	50.00%
3	NP	3	3	0	100.00%
4	EG	3	2	1	66.67%
5	OG	3	2	1	66.67%

Played With
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Shadow Demon	11	7	4	63.64%
2	Nyx Assassin	7	4	3	57.14%
3	Weaver	6	4	2	66.67%
4	Lifestealer	6	3	3	50.00%
5	Luna	5	3	2	60.00%

Played Against
	Hero	∑	W	L	WR
1	Ogre Magi	12	7	5	58.33%
2	Luna	8	4	4	50.00%
3	Rubick	8	4	4	50.00%
4	Batrider	6	5	1	83.33%
5	Sand King	5	5	0	100.00%

85 games played

52W - 33L (61.18%)

33W - 52L (38.82%)

Click here for complete statistics table

Country Representation

#	Country / Region	Representation	Players
1	China	28 / 80 (35%)	Ame, bLink, BurNIng, END, Faith, Faith_bian, Garder, iceice, InJuly, Jixing, Kaka, LaNm, uuu9, old chicken, eLeVeN, Paparazi灬, Q, Sakata, Sccc, shadow, Maybe, Super, Sylar, Victoria, xiao8, Xz, y`, Yao
2	United States	7 / 80 (9%)	melonzz, monkeys-forever, Moo, MSS, SVG, UNiVeRsE, Zfreek
3	Canada	5 / 80 (6%)	1437, Arteezy, Aui_2000, EternaLEnVy, MoonMeander
3	Greece	5 / 80 (6%)	Madara, Maybe Next Time, SkyLark, SsaSpartan, ThuG
3	Malaysia	5 / 80 (6%)	Ahfu, Ahjit, KaNG, NaNa, xNova-
6	South Korea	4 / 80 (5%)	DuBu, Febby, Forev, QO
7	Australia	3 / 80 (4%)	ana, kpii, Velo
7	Denmark	3 / 80 (4%)	Cr1t-, MiSeRy, N0tail
7	Russia	3 / 80 (4%)	9pasha, RAMZES666, Solo
7	Singapore	3 / 80 (4%)	iceiceice, NutZ, xy-
7	Ukraine	3 / 80 (4%)	Lil, No[o]ne, Resolut1on
12	Romania	2 / 80 (3%)	canceL^^, w33
12	Sweden	2 / 80 (3%)	s4, zai
14	Finland	1 / 80 (1%)	JerAx
14	Germany	1 / 80 (1%)	Black^
14	Israel	1 / 80 (1%)	Fly
14	Macau	1 / 80 (1%)	DDC
14	North Macedonia	1 / 80 (1%)	Saksa
14	Pakistan	1 / 80 (1%)	Suma1L
14	Thailand	1 / 80 (1%)	Jabz

References

↑ Dota Team (3 October 2016). "The Boston Major". Valve Corporation. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
↑ Wykrhm Reddy (2016-11-30). "LGD will be replacing Execration at The Boston Major due to visa issues. They leave for Boston tomorrow. #BostonMajor". Retrieved 2016-11-30.
↑ LGD Gaming (2016-11-23). "关于LGD.FY战队出征秋季赛签证情况和人员临时调整的公告 (LGD.FY's announcement of the temporary roster change for The Boston Major)". Retrieved 2016-11-23.
↑ Wykrhm Reddy (2016-11-29). "Boston Updates. #BostonMajor". Retrieved 2016-11-29.

[Boston_Major_announcement-1] Dota Team (3 October 2016). "The Boston Major". Valve Corporation. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

[LGD_will_be_replacing_Execration-2] Wykrhm Reddy (2016-11-30). "LGD will be replacing Execration at The Boston Major due to visa issues. They leave for Boston tomorrow. #BostonMajor". Retrieved 2016-11-30.

[LFY_roster_change-3] LGD Gaming (2016-11-23). "关于LGD.FY战队出征秋季赛签证情况和人员临时调整的公告 (LGD.FY's announcement of the temporary roster change for The Boston Major)". Retrieved 2016-11-23.

[iG.V_roster_change-4] Wykrhm Reddy (2016-11-29). "Boston Updates. #BostonMajor". Retrieved 2016-11-29.

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General

Specific

The Boston Major 2016

Format

Prize Pool

Participants

Invited Teams

Qualified Teams

Group Stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Main Event

Trivia

Additional Content

Streams

Broadcast Talent

Player Profiles

Team Intros

Additional Data

Statistics

Country Representation

References