Virtus.pro Are Your Three-Time Summit Champions
Virtus.pro defeated Fnatic in the Grand Finals of Dota Summit 8 minor tournament to claim their third consecutive victory at events organized by Beyond the Summit studio.
DOTA Summit 8 was held on December 13-17 in Los Angeles. First, nine participating teams were placed into three groups with round-robin format. Then, the best team from each group advanced to the playoffs, while the second-placed teams qualified for the Wild Card stage, where they were joined by the team with the highest number of points across third-placed teams. Thus, the results of the group stage looked as follows:
Group Stage Results:
| Group A | Group B | Group C | ||||||
| 1. | Virtus.pro | 6-0 | 1. | Team Kinguin | 4-2 | 1. | Fnatic | 5-1 |
| 2. | OG | 3-3 | 2. | Evil Geniuses | 3-3 | 2. | OpTic Gaming | 4-2 |
| 3. | Sacred | 0-6 | 3. | compLexity Gaming | 2-4 | 3. | LGD Gaming | 0-6 |
Both Wild Card and Playoffs stages featured a sing-elimination brackets with best-of-three matches, with the Grand Finals of the playoffs being best-of-five. OG advanced to the playoffs by defeating Evil Geniuses (2-0) and compLexity (2-1). In the playoffs Virtus.pro outplayed Team Kinguin (2-0) and made it to the Grand Finals, where they faced Fnatic. The match ended in VP’s favour with the 3-1 score. Despite playing with ArtStyle, who is temporary replacing the team’s captain Solo, the team managed to win their third Summit event in a row and end the year on a high note.
Wild Card Bracket:
Playoffs Bracket:
Tournament’s Results:
| Place | $ USD | DPC Points | Team |
| 1st | $120,000 | 150 | Virtus.pro |
| 2nd | $60,000 | 90 | Fnatic |
| 3rd-4th | $36,000 | 30 | OG, Kinguin |
| 5th | $18,000 | - | compLexity |
| 6th-7th | $9,000 | - | EG, Sacred |
| 8th-9th | $6,000 | - | Sacred, LGD |