DreamLeague Season 27 Survival Guide: Teams, format, schedule, prize pool

It might be the fifth Tier 1 tournament since The International 2025 — and somehow the 27th iteration of the series — but DreamLeague Season 27 is technically the first event of the ESL Pro Tour 2025–2026 season. Go figure.

A whopping 24 teams have been thrown into the mix, all clawing for their slice of a $1,000,000 prize pool across 12 days of nonstop Dota. PARIVISION will be on hand to defend their title. MOUZ and Falcons are expected to show up firing on all cylinders. Team Yandex, OG, and Natus Vincere will try to keep their post-BLAST slam momentum from evaporating. Team Nemesis is looking to write a fresh chapter in a field packed with seasoned killers.

And somewhere in that chaos sits Tundra who is almost certainly eyeing another trophy. But since this isn’t a BLAST event, that suddenly looks a whole lot less inevitable.

• Read Tundra Esports claim fourth consecutive BLAST Slam Championship title

DreamLeague Season 27 opens with a jam packed group stage schedule, featuring 12 best-of-three series, giving everyone a chance to play. The action starts at 12:00 CET with four series; Liquid vs Team Nemesis, OG taking on Tidebound, Team Spirit going head-to-head wtih 1W, and BetBoom facing off against Runa Team.

DreamLeague Season 27 Teams

Aurora Gaming (invited)

Heroic (invited)

Team Falcons (invited)

Team Spirit (invited)

Xtreme Gaming (invited)

Natus Vincere (Western Europe)

MOUZ (Western Europe)

Yakult Brothers (China)

GamerLegion (NA)

Team Yandex (Division 2 Season 1)

Pipsqueak+4 (Division 2 Season 1)

Team Tidebound (Division 2 Season 2)

DreamLeague Season 27 Format

Group Stage

24 teams swiss-system

Top eight teams advance to playoffs

• Remaining teams are eliminated

Playoffs

Double-elimination bracket

Grand Final is Bo5

DreamLeague Sesaon 27 Prize Pool

The $1,000,000 prize pool will be split as below. Note that just like in BLAST Slam V, $750,000 are awarded as Prize Money while $250,000 USD are awarded as Club Reward. The 19,500 EPT Points will be spread among the participants and in addition, teams will earn $3,500 prize money and 100 EPT points for each series win in the Group Stage. However, eliminated teams in Group Stage will only earn the prize money.

2nd place $125,000/$25,000/2,500 base EPT points

4th place $50,000/$15,000/1,600 base EPT points

7-8th place $10,000/$10,000/500 base EPT points

• 9-24th place $0/$7500/100 total EPT points

DreamLeague Season 27 Broadcasts

Primary

Russian Twitch, Youtube, Kick, VK, okko

Ukrainian Twitch, Youtube

Secondary

Russian Twitch, Youtube

Ukrainian Twitch, Youtube

Tertiary

Russian Twitch, Youtube

Ukrainian Twitch, Youtube