Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025

The Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025 is the first of the year’s Dota competitions, which kicks off a busy calendar in 2025. Although this is only the first event in what has become a somewhat crowded schedule of competitions, there will be many more chances for the best teams to be successful in pro-Dota this season.
Subject Dota 2
Start Date January 24, 2025
End Date February 2, 2025
Status Coming Soon
Location Sava Centar, Belgrade, Serbia
Prize Pool $1,000,000
Participants 16 men’s teams
Type LAN
Tournament Champion
Format Group Stage and Playoffs
Organizer FISSURE

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The Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025, the Tier-1 event, is the inaugural edition of the FISSURE PLAYGROUND series, which replaced the BetBoom Dacha series. It will last 10 days, from the end of January to the beginning of February.

The Armenian broadcasting studio from Yerevan, FISSURE, which moved to Belgrade, Serbia, last year, is well-known for organizing tournaments and providing broadcasts for games like Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Counter-Strike 2, and Dota 2. Following three BetBoom Dacha tournaments across 2023 and 2024, the “Dachas” were replaced by new events, which were renamed FISSURE Universe until the end of 2024 and FISSURE PLAYGROUND in 2025, both due to sponsorship complications. In between, FISSURE organized one more event last year, the Elite League Season 1.

Where and When Will the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025 Be Held?

The Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025 is offline. i.e., LAN tournament, which will take place from January 24 to February 2. One of the main reasons FISSURE moved its headquarters to Serbia was precisely the LAN feature of its tournaments. According to the information available online, the broadcasting studio was compelled to find a new host because of the dearth of contemporary locations for LAN competitions, Armenia’s poor Internet, and power interruptions.

The venue for the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025 is the Blue Hall (in Serbian, Plava dvorana) of the Sava Center (in Serbian, Sava Centar), situated in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, which serves as a hub for international congresses, cultural events, and business. It can accommodate 4,000 spectators.

The total prize pool of this tournament will be $1,000,000, but it’s yet unknown how will it be distributed.

Which Teams Will Take Part in the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025?

For the Dota 2 fans who were eager for more action, the FISSURE Playground Closed Qualifiers were a Christmas present. FISSURE decided to provide a single spot for the main event for each of the five regional qualifiers. Eleven more teams will be directly invited to the main event to round up the 16-team roster for the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025. Qualifications were conducted online, the same as the qualifications for the BB Dacha, the tournament’s predecessor. On December 27, 2024, all the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025 qualifiers were finished, so the names of five of the 16 teams ready to compete are known right now.
AVULUS
1
Smiling Knight
2
Stormstormer
3
Xibbe
4
Ekki
5
SoNNeikO
AVULUS
Chimera Esports
1
TA2000
2
lorenof
3
Daxak
4
OneJey
5
panto
Chimera Esports
Yakult's Brothers
1
Ame
2
Emo
3
zeal
4
BoBoKa
5
天命
Yakult's Brothers
Talon Esports
1
Natsumi
2
Mikoto
3
Ws
4
Jhocam
5
Kuku
Talon Esports
Apex Genesis
1
Yamsun
2
RCY
3
Fayde
4
Bignum
5
Speeed
Apex Genesis

Even though we’re not familiar with the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025 format (nor the exact dates for each stage), we can speculate that it will align with the format of the “Dachas”, meaning there will likely be two or more single round-robin groups (Group Stage) following by the double-elimination Playoffs bracket, with matches being Bo3, except for the final, which is presumably Bo5.

Who’ll Win the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025?

The Dota 2 community was taken aback by some of the lineups when the teams and squads for the Closed Qualifiers were revealed. Additionally, since these lists didn’t include many renowned Tier-1 teams, we can presume that some names, like Team Falcons, PARIVISION, BetBoom Team, and Team Liquid, might be invited directly. Among these and other invitees, whose names we await to be announced, you should look up for the favorites to win the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025.

After Closed Qualifiers concluded, for which odds were offered on some Interac betting sites (not for all regions for qualifications, though), for now, there are no markets available for the main event in Belgrade.

Pros and Cons of the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025 Favorites

Here, we’ll stick to those teams that secured their berth at the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025 by this very moment. Among these five, three are bigger favorites than the remaining two, albeit neither of them will be the favorites over the Falcons, PARIVISION, BB Team, or Liquid, who’ll be invited… let’s say 90%.

TEAMApex GenesisAVULUSTalon Esports
PROS
  • The surprising winners of the Americas Closed Qualifiers, beating M80 in the Grand Final
    Able to pull off the strategy their rivals don’t expect (ask the M80 players!)
  • The WEU Closed Qualifiers winnersWell-played rosterThe current RES Regional Champions winners
  • The SEA Closed Qualifiers winnersThe MESA Invitational 2024 winners
CONS
  • Not able to play on a high level consistently (15th-16th place at the PGL Wallachia 2024 Season 2, 12th-14th place at the Elite League Season 2)
  • Not able to play on a high level consistently (11th-12th place in the DreamLeague Season 24)
  • The lack of experience (9th-10th place at the DreamLeague Season 24, 11th-12th place at the BetBoom Dacha Belgrade 2024)

Features of the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025

The FISSURE will hold two LAN competitions in 2025. The first will be the one we discussed in the text. The second one will take place from October 24 to November 2, and there will be a $1,000,000 prize pool for each. Throughout the year, there will be four online tournaments. In March, teams will compete for $650,000, and then in June, August, and December, they’ll compete for $250,000.

If you were wondering where to watch the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025, the answer is that they have an English-language Twitch channel called Fissure_Dota_Eng and a YouTube channel called fiss_dota2_en. It’s available for watching there..

Who’ll win the Dota 2: FISSURE PLAYGROUND Belgrade 2025 in your opinion?
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Publication date : 04.01.2025
Last modified date: 04.01.2025

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