Riyadh Masters 2024 is an offline Dota 2 tournament going to take place in Boulevard Riyadh City, Riyadh and organised by Esports World Cup Foundation and ESL Gaming. The tournament will start from 4th July 2024 and will conclude on 21st July 2024 and 20 teams will participate in this event. Lets see the specifics of this event.

Format Of Riyadh Masters 2024

Eight teams from EPT Leaderboard will be seeded into the group stage. Twelve teams from regional qualifiers will be seeded into play-in. Three teams will be from China.Two teams each will be from Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and South America. One team each will be from Eastern Europe, MENA, and North America. Play-In will be from 4th July to 7th July, 2024. There will be two groups of six teams each. Single round-robin format will be followed. All matches will be played in the best of two format. Top three teams from each group will advance to the group stage.4th to 5th place team from each group will be matched. Matches will be played from opposite groups. Winners will advance to the group stage and losers will be eliminated.

Group Stage will take place from 10th July to 14th July,2024.There will be two groups of eight teams each and single round-robin format will be applicable. All matches will be played in best of two series.Top four teams from each group will advance to the upper bracket of the playoffs.5th and 6th place team from each group will advance to the lower bracket of the playoffs. Remaining teams will be eliminated.

Playoffs will take place from 16th July to 21st July, 2024.Double-elimination bracket will be applicable and all matches except Grand Final will be played in best of three series. The Grand Final will be played in the best of five series.

The following teams are participating in this event:

• Team Falcons
• BetBoom Team 
• Gaimin Gladiators
• WBG.XG
• Tundra Esports
• Team Liquid
• OG
• Team Spirit
• Entity 
• MOUZ
• Virtus.pro 
• PSG Quest
• G2 x iG
• LGD Gaming 
• Azure Ray 
• Aurora 
• Blacklist International
• nouns
• HEROIC 
• beastcoast

Prize Pool

The event boasts a massive prizepool of $5,000,000 USD with the distribution as follows:

• The champion will receive $1,500,000 and 1,000 club points.
• The second place holder will receive $800,000 and 600 club points.
• The team securing the third place will take home $600,000 and 350 club points.
• The fourth place finisher will receive $400,000 and 200 club points.

The event will be streamed live on Twitch and Youtube.