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Team Liquid sweeps Dota 2’s The International 2024: Final standings & recap

Titas Khan
Team Liquid lifts The International 2024 trophyValve

The International 2024 has wrapped up, and Dota 2 has crowned its champions of the year in Copenhagen as Team Liquid took out the trophy, finally earning the second Aegis after years of heartbreak and close calls, beating out Gaimin Gladiators in convincing fashion.

Coming into TI 2024, Team Liquid received a direct invite thanks to their great performances over the year. Although they haven’t won any trophies, regularly losing out to other dominant teams like Team Falcons, Team Spirit, Gaimin Gladiators, and Xtreme Gaming, they were still top contenders.

In the group stage, Team Liquid came second, losing out to a strong Team Spirit for the top seed, but in their seeding decider match against BetBoom Team, they won, getting a buy into the upper bracket quarter-final.

From there, it was a clean sweep to the Aegis. Beating out Xtreme Gaming in the upper quarterfinal, Cloud9 in the upper semifinals, Gaimin Gladiators in the upper finals, booking their spot in the Grand Final without losing a single map.

Gaimin Gladiators clawed their way into another TI Grand Finals against Team Liquid, however, an on fire Liquid dominated in 3-0 fashion, winning the org their second Aegis after their 2017 win.

As for Gaimin Gladiators, this is the second TI Grand Finals in a row they lost, in 2023 to a dominant Team Spirit and now to Team Liquid in 2024.

Below you can find everything you need to know about what happened in TI13.

Final standings

PlacementTeamPrize Money (USD)
1Team Liquid$1,158,911
2Gaimin Gladiators$360,555
3Tundra Esports$231,740
4Team Falcons$154,493
5-6Cloud9
Xtreme Gaming		$90,139
7-8BetBoom Team
Aurora		$64,355
9-121w Team
Heroic
Team Spirit		$51,463
13-16Team Zero
beastcoast
G2 x iG		$38,676

Prize pool and Compendium

The initial prize pool on offer for TI13 was the same as it had been for every iteration since the first TI held at Gamescom in 2011, $1.6 million. However, Valve released a Compendium to further boost the prize pool with crowdfunding.

25 percent of all sales made from the compendium were added to The International’s prize pool. Similar to this year, last year’s compendium was also released two weeks before the event.

In total $975,377 was added to the prize pool from the Compendium, totaling the final pot to $2,575,377.

Format and schedule

The International 13 played out between September 4 to September 15, 2024. The event kicked off with the group stage on September 4-5, followed by the playoffs from September 6-10.

After a two-day break, the action resumed on September 13 for the finals weekend before crowning the new champion on September 15.

As for the group stage, teams were segregated into four groups of four teams each with every team playing best-of-two series against others in their group. Following that, the top two teams from each group faced off against the 3rd or 4th placed teams from their opposite groups (A against B and C against D) to determine seedings for the playoffs.

Group A

Team NameSeries scoreMatch score
Xtreme Gaming2-1-05-1
Gaimin Gladiators1-1-13-3
HEROIC0-2-12-4
1w Team0-2-12-4

Group B

Team NameSeries scoreMatch score
Cloud92-1-05-1
Tundra Esports0-3-03-3
G2xiG1-1-13-3
Talon Esports0-1-21-5

Group C

Team NameSeries scoreMatch score
Team Falcons1-2-04-2
Team Zero1-2-04-2
BetBoom Team 1-0-22-4
nouns0-2-12-4

Group D

Team NameSeries scoreMatch score
Team Spirit3-0-06-0
Team Liquid2-0-14-2
Aurora1-0-22-4
beastcoast0-0-30-6

Group stage (September 4)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
Group AXtreme Gaming 2-0 HEROIC1 AM4 AM9 AM
Group AGaimin Gladiators 2-0 1w Team1 AM4 AM9 AM
Group BTundra Esports 1-1 Talon Esports1 AM4 AM9 AM
Group CBetBoom Team 2-0 nouns3 AM6 AM11 AM
Group CTeam Zero 1-1 Falcons3 AM6 AM11 AM
Group BG2xiG 0-2 Cloud93 AM6 AM11 AM
Group A1w Team 1-1 HEROIC5 AM8 AM1 PM
Group DTeam Liquid 2-0 Aurora5 AM8 AM1 PM
Group DTeam Spirit 2-0 beastcoast5 AM8 AM1 PM
Group AXtreme Gaming 2-0 Gaimin Gladiators7 AM10 AM3 PM
Group BG2xiG 2-0 Talon Esports7 AM10 AM3 PM
Group Cnouns 1-1 Falcons7 AM10 AM3 PM
Group CBetBoom Team 0-2 Team Zero9 AM12 PM5 PM
Group DTeam Liquid 2-0 beastcoast9 AM12 PM5 PM
Group DTeam Spirit 2-0 Aurora9 AM12 PM5 PM

Group stage (September 5)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
Group AXtreme Gaming 1-1 1w Team1 AM4 AM9 AM
Group AGaimin Gladiators 1-1 HEROIC1 AM4 AM9 AM
Group BTundra Esports 1-1 Cloud91 AM4 AM9 AM
Group CBetBoom Team 0-2 Falcons3 AM6 AM11 AM
Group CTeam Zero 1-1 nouns3 AM6 AM11 AM
Group Dbeastcoast 0-2 Aurora3 AM6 AM11 AM
Group BG2xiG 1-1 Tundra Esports5 AM8 AM1 PM
Group BTalon Esports 0-2 Cloud95 AM8 AM1 PM
Group DTeam Spirit 2-0 Team Liquid5 AM8 AM1 PM
Tie-breakerTeam Falcons 2-0 Team Zero8 AM11 AM4 PM
Tie-breakerG2xiG 0-2 Tundra Esports8 AM11 AM4 PM

Seeding Deciders (September 6)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
A1 vs B3/B4Xtreme Gaming 2-0 Talon Esports1 AM4 AM9 AM
D2 vs C3/C4Team Liquid 2-1 BetBoom Team4 AM7 AM12 PM
B1 vs A3/A4Cloud9 2-0 1w Team7 AM10 AM3 PM
C2 vs D3/D4Team Zero 1-2 Aurora10 AM1 PM6 PM

Seeding Deciders (September 7)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
C1 vs D3/D4Team Falcons 2-1 beastcoast1 AM4 AM9 AM
B2 vs A3/A4Tundra Esports 2-0 HEROIC4 AM7 AM12 PM
D1 vs C3/C4Team Spirit 0-2 nouns7 AM10 AM3 PM
A2 vs B3/B4Gaimin Gladiators 2-1 G2xiG10 AM1 PM6 PM

Playoffs (September 8)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
Upper-bracket QuarterfinalXtreme Gaming 0-2 Team Liquid1 AM4 AM9 AM
Upper-bracket QuarterfinalCloud9 2-0 Aurora4 AM7 AM12 PM
Upper-bracket QuarterfinalTeam Falcons 0-2 Tundra Esports7 AM10 AM3 PM
Upper-bracket Quarterfinalnouns 1-2 Gaimin Gladiators10 AM1 PM6 PM

Playoffs (September 9)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
Lower-bracket Round 1Talon Esports 1-2 BetBoom Team1 AM4 AM9 AM
Lower-bracket Round 11w Team 2-0 Team Zero4 AM7 AM12 PM
Lower-bracket Round 2BetBoom Team 2-0 nouns7 AM10 AM3 PM
Lower-bracket Round 21w Team 0-2 Team Falcons10 AM1 PM6 PM

Playoffs (September 10)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
Lower-bracket Round 1beastcoast 1-2 HEROIC1 AM4 AM9 AM
Lower-bracket Round 1Team Spirit 2-0 G2xiG4 AM7 AM12 PM
Lower-bracket Round 2HEROIC 1-2 Aurora7 AM10 AM3 PM
Lower-bracket Round 2Team Spirit 1-2 Xtreme Gaming10 AM1 PM6 PM

Main event (September 13)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
Lower-bracket Round 3BetBoom Team 0-2 Falcons1 AM4 AM9 AM
Lower-bracket Round 3Aurora 0-2 Xtreme Gaming4 AM7 AM12 PM
Upper-bracket Semi-finalTeam Liquid 2-0 Cloud97 AM10 AM3 PM
Upper-bracket Semi-finalTundra Esports 0-2 Gaimin Gladiators10 AM1 PM6 PM

Main event (September 14)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
Lower-bracket QuarterfinalFalcons 2-0 Cloud91 AM4 AM9 AM
Lower-bracket QuarterfinalXtreme Gaming 0-2 Tundra Esports4 AM7 AM12 PM
Upper-bracket finalGaimin Gladiators 0-2 Team Liquid7 AM10 AM3 PM
Lower-bracket Semi-finalFalcons 0-2 Tundra Esports10 AM1 PM6 PM

Main event (September 15)

StageMatchPDTEDTBST
Lower-bracket finalTundra Esports 1-2 Gaimin Gladiators1 AM4 AM9 AM
Grand FinalTeam Liquid 3-0 Gaimin Gladiators4 AM7 AM12 PM

Teams and rosters

Below you can find all 16 teams that participated in TI13 and how they qualified:

image featuring all the 16 qualified teams for The International 13.Valve
These are the final 16 teams that participated at TI13.
TeamQualification MethodPlayers
Team SpiritDirect InviteYatoro, Larl, Collapse, Mira, Miposhka
Xtreme GamingDirect InviteAme, Xm, Xxs, XinQ, Dy
Team FalconsDirect Inviteskiter, Malr1ne, ATF, Cr1t-, Sneyking
Team LiquidDirect InvitemiCKe, Nisha, 33, Boxi, Insania
Gaimin GladiatorsDirect Invitedyrachyo, Quinn, Ace, tOfu, Seleri
BetBoom TeamDirect InviteNightfall, gpk, MieRo`, Save-, TORONTOTOKYO
Cloud9Western Europe regional qualifierswatson, No[o]ne-. DM, Kataomi`, Fishman
Tundra EsportsWestern Europe regional qualifiersPure~, Topson, RAMZES666, 9Class, Whitemon
1winEastern Europe regional qualifiersMunkushi~, CHIRA_JUNIOR, Cloud, swedenstrong, RESPECT
Team ZeroChina regional qualifiersErika, 7e, Beyond, ponlo, zzq
G2 x iGChina regional qualifiersMonet, NothingToSay, JT-. BoBoKa, xNova
AuroraSoutheast Asia regional qualifiers23, lorenof, Jabz, Q, Oli
Talon EsportsSoutheast Asia regional qualifiersAkashi, Mikoto, Ws, Jhocam, ponyo
nounsNorth America regional qualifiersYuma, Copy, Gunnar, Lelis, Fly
HEROICSouth America regional qualifiersK1, 4nalog, Davai Lama, Scofield, KJ
beastcoastSouth America regional qualifierspaykm Lumpy, Vitaly, Elmisho, MoOz

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