What to Watch This Week in Dota 2: The International 2024 Open Qualifiers Edition

With summer approaching, it's time for The International 2024 qualifiers. This week marks the beginning of open qualifiers for all regions. 

Last week, Valve announced the six teams that received direct invites to The International 2024. Along with this announcement, they revealed that the qualifiers would start almost immediately, which means this week!

In case you missed it, the six invited teams are:

• Team Spirit;
• Xtreme Gaming;
• Team Falcons;
• Team Liquid;
• Gaimin Gladiators;
• BetBoom Team.

For The International, there will be only six regions—sorry MENA, you are grouped with WEU as usual.

 The International 2024 Open Qualifiers

• Two Sets of Open Qualifiers for each region:
    - NA;
    - SA;
    - WEU;
    - EEU;
    - SEA;
    - CN;
• Single-elimination bracket
• Round of 16 onwards are Bo3, Seeding Match, and all other matches are Bo1

Advancement to Closed Qualifiers

- NA Round 1;
  - SA Rounds 1 and 2;
  - China Rounds 1 and 2.

• Two teams advance to the closed qualifiers for:
    - NA Round 2;
    - EEU Round 1;
    - SEA Rounds 1 and 2.
• One team advances to the closed qualifiers for:
    - WEU Rounds 1 and 2;
    - EEU Round 2;
• Three teams advance to the closed qualifiers for:

Dates

Open Qualifiers Round 1:

• June 3-4:
    - NA;
    - EEU;
    - SEA.
• June 5-6:
    - SA;
    - WEU;
    - CN.

Open Qualifiers Round 2:

• June 5-6:
    - NA;
    - EEU;
    - SEA.
• June 7-8:
    - SA;
    - WEU;
    - CN.

The International 2024 Closed Qualifiers will begin immediately following the results of the open qualifiers. The staggered start dates are June 9th for China and North America, June 14th for Eastern Europe and South America, and June 19th for Southeast Asia and Western Europe.

The International 2024 (TI13)

The International 2024 is set to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September at the Royal Arena. This will be the second time The International comes to Europe, but the first time when, hopefully, fans will be able to attend. The first attempt to bring the tournament to Europe was in 2020 when the pandemic struck. TI10 was postponed to 2021 and moved from Sweden to Romania, and although tickets were sold, a new wave of coronavirus forced Valve to refund all tickets and hold the tournament in an empty stadium in Bucharest. Since then, TI moved to Singapore in 2022 and last year it returned home to Seattle.