KODE5, holding a simultaneous America, Asian and European  online DotA tournament division have released the Asian brackets. Games are played in a best of 1 format and as this tournament is based on single-elimination, the losing team is eliminated from the tournament.

There are alot of interesting match-ups in the first round. AEON.sg are going up against familiar rivals Kingsurf and is such a shame that one of these teams will be gone from the tournament at such an early stage. The odds for this match up seem to be in favour of Kingsurf since AEON has recently lost their five-man roster with the retirement of their only Malaysian player, ChuaN.

Also, a newly reformed EHOME featuring KingJ and Burning will test themselves against StarsBoBa. In addition, MCiTY face Singaporean powerhouse Xtreme Chaotix aka XtC although XtC's situation is mired in uncertainty as they are currently down to 2 players.

As can be seen, there doesn't seem to be a seeding process when the brackets were released leading us to a very exciting first round. Although, the backets may not be complete as there are only 39 teams, an unusual number for a tournament of single elimination format. Stay tuned for more updates on the brackets if they are forthcoming. Indeed if the brackets were to stay, this would lead to a very interesting tournament, to say the least.

-Update-

The KODE5 administration has reportedly removed the brackets, signalling the possibilities of a redrawing of brackets following much dissension from the community regarding the way the elite teams were arranged to pit against each other as early as the first round.

View the teams here!