The International 2017 is the third Major of the 2017 season and the seventh annual edition of The

International. The tournament was

hosted in Seattle for the sixth consecutive year. The Main Event took place for the fourth consecutive time at KeyArena, a multi-purpose
arena in Seattle Center with a total seating capacity of over 17,000.

Format[edit]
Champions Qualifiers - June 20th - June 22nd, 2017
Four Regional Champions Qualifiers.
The winners of each Champions Qualifier will advance to the respective Main Qualifier.
Open Qualifiers - June 22nd - June 26th, 2017[1]
Twelve Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers, two brackets for each region.
The winners of each Open Qualifier will advance to the respective Main Qualifier.
Main Qualifiers - June 26th - June 30th, 2017[1]
Six Regional Qualifiers.
The winners of each Main Qualifier will advance directly to The International.
The runners-up of the Europe, China, Southeast Asia, and North America Main Qualifiers will advance directly to The International.
The third place team of the China and Southeast Asia Main Qualifiers will advance directly to The International.
Group Stage - August 2nd - August 5th, 2017
All eighteen teams are divided into two groups where they play in a Round Robin format.
All matches are played in a Bo2.
The top four teams in each group advance to the Upper Bracket of the Main Event.
The bottom team in each group is eliminated.
The remaining teams advance to the Lower Bracket of the Main Event.
Main Event - August 7th - August 12th, 2017
Sixteen teams play in a double-elimination format over six days.
Eight teams begin in the Upper Bracket, eight in the Lower Bracket.
First Lower Bracket round is Bo1, Grand Finals are Bo5, all others rounds are Bo3.

Broadcast Talent[edit]
EN Hosts:
Day[9] (Sean Plott)
Machine (Alex Richardson)
EN Observers:
skrff (Rikard Holm Melin)
Weppas (Johan Westberg)
EN Interviewers:
Kaci (Kaci Aitchison)
SirActionSlacks (Jake Kanner)
EN Commentators:
Capitalist (Austin Walsh)
Draskyl (Andy Stiles)
Fogged (Ioannis Loucas)
GoDz (David Parker)
LD (David Gorman)
Lyrical (Gabriel Cruz)
Luminous (David Zhang)
Merlini (Ben Wu)
ODPixel (Owen Davies)
Purge (Kevin Godec)
Sheever (Jorien van der Heijden)
syndereN (Troels Lyngholt Nielsen)
TobiWan (Toby Dawson)
 WinteR (Chan Litt Binn)
EN Analysts:
Akke (Joakim Akterhall)
Blitz (William Lee)
CC&C (Quinn Callahan)
Pajkatt (Per Anders Olsson Lille)
ppd (Peter Dager)
EN All-Star Match Commentators:
Ayesee (Aaron Chambers)
Draskyl (Andy Stiles)
EN Content Creators:
Hot_Bid (Ken Chen)
PyrionFlax (Ted Forsyth)
EN Newbie Stream:
Torte De Lini (Michael Cohen)
EN/CN Interpreters:
AutumnWindz (Joshua Lee)
KBBQ (Jack Chen)

RU Host:
Faker (Ivan Demkin)
RU Observers:
CaptainSashko (Aleksandr Halushchenko)
4ce (Nikita Kotkov)
Adekvat (Rustam Mavliutov)
RU Interviewer:
AbsoKulikov (Oleg Kulikov)
RU Analysts:
ALWAYSWANNAFLY (Andrey Bondarenko)
Dread (Andrey Golubev)
fng (Artyom Barshack)
Goblak (Artur Kostenko)
Inmate (Dmitry Filinov)
Smile (Sergey Antonovich Revin)
XBOCT (Alexander Dashkevich)
RU Commentators:
BafiK (Aleksey Bafadarov)
CaspeRRR (Roman Vladimirovich Lepohin)
Droog (Dmitry Chumachenko)
GodHunt (Viktor Volkov)
Lex (Alexey Filippov)
LighTofHeaveN (Dmitry Kupriyanov)
NS (Yaroslav Vladimirovich Kuznetsov)
v1lat (Vitalii Nikolaevich Volochai)
EN/RU Interpreter:
Tonya (Tonya Predko)
 CN Hosts:
78 (Du Junnan)
BBC (Zhang Hongsheng)
CN Commentators:
CD (Tao Wei)
FreeAgain (Hao Peng)
Mrrr (Meng Rui)
MS (Xiang Yu)
SDN (Shi Danni)
Wind (Wang Zhibo)
CN Analysts:
5400 (Yang Huaining)
AA (Li Qiming)
AMS (Chen Juan)
LaNm (Zhang Zhicheng)
Mikasa (Tong Junjie)
SanSheng (Wang Zhaohui)
Yaya (Chen Ya)
Yuno (Wang Jing)

* AdmiralBulldog was invited to be part of the English talent, but could not attend the event due to visa issues. [2]

* Resolut1on was originally invited as a Russian analyst, but chose to compete with Team Empire after Chappie was unable to secure a visa in time.[3]

Prize Pool[edit]
The initial prize pool of the tournament was $1,600,000 USD.
An additional 25% of all TI 7 Battle Pass sales are added to the total prize pool.[4] These sales include compendium purchases at multiple
levels and points available to level up the compendium in game.
The current total prize pool is $24,787,916 ($23,187,916 added). [4] $100,000 of the prize pool is awarded to the winner of the All-Star Match.

Place $ USD Percent Team

1st $10,862,683 44% Team Liquid

2nd $3,950,067 16% Newbee

LGD.Forever
3rd $2,592,231 10.5%
Young

4th $1,728,154 7% LGD Gaming

5th-6th $1,110,956 4.5% Virtus.pro