YMCA member Austin Manengu works his keyboard while playing Fortnite during the unveiling of a new gaming lab at the Maplewood Family YMCA in Rochester, Thursday, June 20, 2024. The YMCA of Greater Rochester, in partnership with Metro Sports & Entertainment Group, will open two gaming labs for youth and young adults this year. Tundra Esports defeated Aurora Gaming 3-1 in the DreamLeague Season 28 finals on Sunday to claim the $250,000 first-place prize.
Tundra also earned 5,010 ESL Pro Tour points and $40,000 worth of additional club rewards. After finishing second in Group Stage 2, Tundra advanced to the finals with a 2-0 win over Team Liquid in the upper bracket finals on Saturday.
Aurora took home the second-place prize of $100,000, while Liquid, who went a perfect 7-0 in Group Stage 2 and was the top overall seed, took third place and $80,000.
Aurora and Liquid met in the lower bracket finals on Sunday morning, with Aurora winning in 37 and 35 minutes on Green. Two Aurora players, Russia’s Egor “Nightfall” Grigorenko and Ukraine’s Artem “lorenof” Melnyk, each had 17 kills in the match.
In the final, Tundra won by 42 minutes on red, also 28 minutes downwind on red. Aurora survived by taking the next map in 32 minutes on green, but Tundra took the win in 47 minutes on green.
Bulgaria’s Bozhidar “bzm” Bogdanov led the Tundra in the finals with an average kill-death-assist ratio of 9.3-3.0-9.8.
The $1 million Dota 2 event kicked off with 16 teams split into two groups of eight teams to compete in a round robin stage. Every series consisted of two games, with the top four teams from each group advancing to Group Stage 2, which was played in a single round-robin format of best-of-three matches until Friday.
The playoffs were played as a best-of-three series until the finals, which were best-of-five matches.
Dream League Season 28 prize pool, including prize money and club rewards
1. $250,000, $40,000 — Tundra Esports
2. $125,000, $30,000 — Aurora Gaming
3. $80,000, $25,000 — Team Liquid
4. $60,000, $20,000 — Extreme Gaming
5. $45,000, $15,000 — Team Falcons
6. $35,000, $15,000 — Paris Vision
7. $30,000, $12,500 — BetBoom Team
8. $25,000, $12,500 — MOUZ
9-10. $20,000, $10,000 — OG, Natus Vincere
11-12. $17,500, $10,000 — Team Yandex, Team Spirit
13-14. $15,000, $10,000 — paN Gaming, GamerLegion
15-16. $10,000, $10,000 — Yakult Brothers, Exertion
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