NEA Announces The Invited Teams And Prize Pool, Broadcasted By CCTV

NEA 2016 (National Electronic Arena) is a comprehensive tournament with 2 million RMB prize money and held in National Stadium.

NEA will cover two categories—computer games and mobile games, of which DOTA2 accounts for 1.3 million RMB, CS:GO 0.64 million and HearthStone 0.25 million.

The tournament is only available for Chinese teams and the open qualifiers will kick off in May and June. The date of LAN Finals is from 1^st to 3^rd July. In total 4 teams will stand out from the open qualifiers’ single elimination.

What’s more, NEA will be broadcasted by CCTV while the English stream is taken by joinDOTA.

It is said the government has invested about 45 million RMB on the site with the capacity of 30 thousand people. It is said more than 1 million people will attend the open qualifiers.

The 8 direct invites of DOTA2 are as followed:

LGD

CDEC

Vici Gaming

EHOME

Invictus Gaming

Newbee

Tongfu

Newbee.Young