The first edition of MYM Prime Nations #1

Following the very succesful MYM Prime Defending series which caused numerous great events in the Dota community, MYM presents a new league format in which the best players of DotA countries face each other for the crown!

Tournament Format

4 groups of 5 teams each will be seeded.

• 1^st phase :

Those teams will play a championship, playing one side each (sentinel and scourge), using the extended league mode format (-xl).

Win = 3 pts
Draw = 1 pts
Loss = 0 pts

The 1^st step will last three weeks starting on June 16^th.

We will announce within a week the groups and the order on which the match will have to be play.

We expect a match to be played every seven days. We will not push back any date or reschedule any match : There are 10 allowed players per team, it should be fairly easy to gather five of those every week.

To the captains: if some of your top 5 player is not available on a certain date.. Well in other sports, sometimes injuries happen, sometimes players are out playing with their real teams, etc... Your role is to select the players and team and to coach them. You will have to do with the players available on the default time period, rescheduling won't be an option.

• 2^nd phase :

The two winning teams of each group will advance into a new stage where they will fight on a double elimination grid, best of 3, similar to the one on MYM Prime #5

country list

There will be 20 countries participating in this tournament!

We named 18 captains and left two spots available.

Australia	Brazil	Denmark	France
Canada	China	England	Germany
Holland	Russia	Poland	Greece
Norway	Romania	Singapore	Sweden
Ukraine	USA	Open spot	Open spot

If your country is not on this list and you feel like you can propose a competitive team, we will hold within the next 7 days a small qualification round. There are two spots available!

To find out more about the countries that were chosen, their captains and the first seedings, visit the Participating Countries page!

Prizes

Making this a live event

You want to know how your nation is doing in this tournament. You want to have more than just the result?

In an effort to develop pro-gaming journalism along with dota, we will offer shoutcast, and / or live broadcast of some games, in different language (English and French, serious shoutcasters from other countries should contact me, and also game reports!

The MYM crew will be referees in most of the games, and a short report will be written and put online, with :

- Hero pick and player list, description,
- A brief comment and analysis of the game,
- Election of the "player of the game",
- We will propose "Before" and "after" games comments, interviews of the captain and players.

This should be interesting to say the least!