Biggest and most prestigious online DotA tournament has made it to a two digit number. This PriDe is the first one officially announced as PDL qualifier, the elite league that only six best teams will qualify to in order to fight for some big cash.
Changes
Last league stable map will be the one used, 6.48b, but hero bans are limited only to Dark Seer, Faerie Dragon and Templar Assassin. PriDe has quit with the group stage formula, and after qualifiers will run again a bo1 single elimination preliminaries before double eliminations bo1 playoffs. A change that sure is worth a notice is a bo5 final, that will surely be a festival of top class DotA.

Seedings
Standard seedings - all the teams that reached playoffs of last PriDe are seeded and qualify directly for the preliminaries:
Seeded teams

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Qualifiers
Four qualifiers, from each 8 teams qualify to preliminaries. West Europe is together with Africa, American is second, East Europe third and Asian, Australian and mixed teams are the fourth one. Altogether four playdays that are scheduled to finish 9th of April. Tight schedule, let’s hope it runs smoothly.

Prizes
Nothing changed since last PriDe, except that six best teams get a chance to fight for bigger money in Prime Defending League.

Let’s hope for another great tournament and wish best of luck to all participants!

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