Perfect World is putting on another Dota 2 Asia Championships and this year they will organize the event in partnership with PGL and it is also a Major this time around.

The tournament will follow the Major format of having regional open qualifiers all around the world that leads into closed qualifiers which in turn determines 10 of the 16 teams that will participate in the main tournament that will be held, just like last year, at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. All of the qualifiers will be played online.

The teams that are invited directly to the event are Invictus Gaming, Newbee, Team Liquid, Vici Gaming, Virtus Pro and Team Secret. 

The Open qualifiers will kick off on the 28th of January and the main event will start on the 30th of March.