FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 Survival Guide
Serbian tournament organiser FISSURE is ready to kick off the 2025-2026 Dota 2 competitive season with their first major event of the new season, FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2. The LAN will feature a $1,000,000 prize pool and is scheduled to take place from 23 October to 2 November, 2025. The final three days will be open to a live audience.
This second edition of the PLAYGROUND series boasts top-tier teams, including the newly-crowned The International champions, Team Falcons, as well as defending Fissure champions, Tundra Esports. Tundra took home the trophy and $400,000 prize after besting Team Falcons 3:2 in the grand finals last January. A grudge match between these two prime teams is bound to draw excitement.
Besides FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 being the first LAN event fans can catch adjusted and new rosters compete at, most eyes will be on Benjamin "Benjaz" Lanao and his new full Peruvian squad, Team Cobra. Benjaz's team is being supported by a controversial $1 million challenge from betting company 1XBET.
The action kicks off tomorrow at 10:00 CEST as Heroic takes on YkBros and Aurora goes head-to-head with Runa.
FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 Teams
FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 Invited Teams
- Betboom Team
- PARIVISION
- Tundra Esports
- Heroic
- Nigma Galaxy*
- Team Liquid
- Team Spirit
- Team Falcons
- Aurora Gaming
- ViCi Gaming **
- Team Yandex
FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 Qualified Teams
- Virtus.Pro (Western Europe)
- MOUZ (Western Europe)***
- Runa Team (Eastern Europe)
- Yakult Brothers (Southeast Asia/China)
- Team Cobra (Americas)
*Team Nigma will be competing with Kirill "Hellscream" Lagutik abd Ivan "MinD_ContRoL" Ivanov in place of Tony “No!ob” Assaf and Omar “OmaR” Moughrabi who failed to secure their visas.
Read Nigma Galaxy hit with visa issues before FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2
** Lin "planet" Hao will be standing in for Xiong "Pyw" Jiahan
***Due to visa complications, Artem "lorenof" Melnyk will be replacing Yeik "MidOne" Nai Zheng
FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 Format
FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 Group Stage
Group Stage (October 23 - October 27, 2025)
- One modified swiss-system of sixteen teams
- All matches are Bo3
- Top eight teams advance to playoffs
- Remaining teams are eliminated
FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 Playoffs
Playoffs (October 28 - November 2, 2025)
- Double-elimination bracket
- Matches are Bo3
- Grand Final is Bo5
FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 Prize Pool
The $1,000,000 prize pool ($781,000 are awarded as Prize Money while $219,000 USD are awarded as Club Reward) will be distributed as indicated below:
- 1st place: $300,000USD + $50,000 Club Reward
- 2nd place: $150,000USD + $30,000 Club Reward
- 3rd place: $80,000USD + $25,000 Club Reward
- 4th place: $60,000USD + $20,000 Club Reward
- 5-6th place: $40,000USD + $15,000 Club Reward
- 7-8th place: $25,000USD + $12,000 Club Reward
- 9-11th place: $10,000USD + $5,000 Club Reward
- 12-14th place: $7,000USD + $5,000 Club Reward
- 15-16th place: $5,000 + $5,000 Club Reward
Although not specified, based on events for CS, it seems that the Club Reward is a portion of prize money that will go directly to the Team Organisations.
FISSURE PLAYGROUND 2 Broadcasts
English stream
- Kick (Primary)
- Kick (Secondary)
Russian stream
- Twitch (Primary)
- Youtube (Primary)
- Twitch (Secondary)
- Youtube (Secondary)
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