Full 2021 Dota Pro Circuit standings heading into season 2

The second season of the 2021 Dota Pro Circuit is officially underway, which means all of the competing teams have had to lock in their rosters following the post-Major transfer window. 

During that window, any Dota 2 team featured in the upper or lower division or a regional league could freely make roster changes without incurring an additional penalty to the squad’s DPC points. 

Because DPC points are more important than ever this season, making roster moves was costly to teams who have already earned some. If a player is removed from a lineup, that team will incur a 15-percent penalty, with additional penalties also being listed on the official DPC website. 

Throughout the regional leagues and the Major tournaments, teams are accumulating DPC points, along with prize money, based on their placements. At the end of the regular season, the top 12 teams in terms of DPC points will directly qualify for The International 2021. 

There will be a last chance qualifier for teams that didn’t make the cut, but there will be no open qualifiers this year—making this the first TI since TI4 to not have open qualifiers of some kind. 

Heading into the second season, here are the top 30 teams in the 2021 DPC standings, their point totals, and every penalty that’s been applied. 

Current TI qualifiers

Rank	Team	Total Points	Points from Regional League	Points from Major
1	Invictus Gaming	1,000	500	500
2	Evil Geniuses	950	500	450
3	Team Secret	850	500	350
4	Virtus.pro	700	500	200
5	Neon Esports	600	300	300
5	Thunder Predator	600	300	300
7	beastcoast	500	500	0
7	PSG.LGD	500	100	400
9	Fnatic	425	500	0
10	Vici Gaming	400	200	200
11	Alliance	300	300	0
11	Quincy Crew	300	300	0
11	Team Aster	300	300	0

Multiple teams are tied for various placements in the top 12 at the end of season one, but only one team was hit with a penalty. 

Fnatic, the top seeded team out of Southeast Asia for the first season, removed Natthaphon “Masaros” Ouanphakdee from its roster on April 4, meaning the team took a 15-percent DPC penalty, dropping them from the full 500 to 425 points. And once you get out of the teams at the very top, you see a lot more roster turnover.

Beastcoast were invited to the ONE Esports Singapore Major but withdrew from the event because of COVID-19 concerns. No team that competed in the Major was penalized for using stand-ins because of the circumstances surrounding the event. 

Remaining DPC point holders

Rank	Team	Total Points	Points from Regional League	Points from Major
14	Natus Vincere	255	300	0
15	Undying	200	200	0
16	AS Monaco Gambit	170	200	0
16	Nigma	170	200	0
16	SG e-sports	170	200	0
16	T1	170	200	0
20	4 Zoomers	100	100	0
21	Team Liquid	100	100	0
22	NoPing e-sports	85	100	0
22	Team Spirit	85	100	0
24	TNC Predator	72.25	100	0
25	Elephant	50	50	0
25	EXTREMUM	50	50	0
27	OG	42.5	50	0
27	BOOM Esports	42.5	50	0
29	Sadboys	30.71	50	0
30	Team Unknown	26.10	50	0

The only extremely notable situation outside of the TI qualifier teams after season one is Na’Vi dropping out of a tie for 11th after replacing Viktor “GeneRaL” Nigrini with RAMZES. Na’Vi also missed the Major because of COVID-19 concerns, meaning they didn’t get to offset the penalty with additional points.

Here’s every other roster move that resulted in a DPC penalty heading into season two. 

• Gambit
  • Rostislav “fn” Lozovoi removed on March 31
• BOOM
  • Andrew “Drew” Halim removed on March 4
• NoPing
  • Juan “Mingatte” Mamani removed on March 1
• OG
  • MidOne removed on April 5
• Sadboys
  • David “dnm” Cossio removed on March 23
  • Sneyking removed on April 3
  • ppd removed on April 4
• SG
  • Danylo “Kingrd” Nascimento removed on March 13
• T1
  • JaCkky removed on March 3
• Nigma
• Spirit
  • Vitaly “so bad” Oshmankevich removed on March 12
• Unknown
  • Junior “Yadomi” Rimari removed on March 1
  • Isaac “Drakeel” Zavaleta removed on March 17
  • Bernardo “Berna” Alarcón removed on March 21
  • Leonardo “Mandy” Viana removed on April 9
• TNC
  • kpii removed on March 18
  • Febby removed on March 18

Matches for the second season of the DPC regional league run until May 23. At the end of season two, the top four seeds from China and Europe, top three teams from Southeast Asia and CIS, and the top two rosters from North and South America will qualify for the Major.