Dota 2 DreamLeague Season 25: Schedule, brackets, and more

The first 16-team Dota 2 tournament of 2025 is underway. DreamLeague Season 25 is the third chapter in the ongoing ESL Pro Circuit, after DreamLeague Season 24 and ESL One Bangkok last year. Like the previous events, Season 25 has a $1-million prize pool and EPT Points at stake for the Esports World Cup later this year.

Sadly enough for Dota 2 fans, it’s more of Patch 7.37e in action, at least in the early days of the tournament. Although we’ve seen the meta evolving even without Valve’s direct intervention, we won’t be surprised if Patch 7.38 is dropped midway through DreamLeague Season 25.

Dota 2 DreamLeague Season 25 teams

Here are all the teams competing in Dota 2 DreamLeague Season 25.

• PARIVISION (EPT Leaderboard)
• BetBoom Team (EPT Leaderboard)
• Team Falcons (EPT Leaderboard)
• Team Liquid (EPT Leaderboard)
• AVULUS (Qualifiers – Western Europe)
• Tundra Esports (Qualifiers – Western Europe)
• Gaimin Gladiators (Qualifiers – Western Europe)
• Team Spirit (Qualifiers – Eastern Europe)
• 9Pandas (Qualifiers – Eastern Europe)
• Chimera Esports  (Qualifiers – MESWA)
• Yakult Brothers (Qualifiers – China)
• Xtreme Gaming (Qualifiers – China)
• Moodeng Warriors (Qualifiers – Southeast Asia)
• BOOM Esports (Qualifiers – Southeast Asia)
• Shopify Rebellion (Qualifiers – North America)
• HEROIC (Qualifiers – South America)

Dota 2 DreamLeague Season 25 schedule and format

DreamLeague Season 25 starts off with 16 teams split evenly between two round-robin groups in its Group Stage One (Feb 16 to 19). The top four teams from each group advance to Group Stage Two (Feb 21 to 27), out of which the top four teams progress to the double-elimination Playoffs (March 1 to 2).

Group Stage One

All times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Feb. 16

Group A

11am

Falcons 0-2 Tundra

XG 0-2 BB

Moodeng 0-2 SR

HEROIC 2-0 9P

4:00pm

Falcons 1-1 BB

XG 0-2 SR

Tundra 2-0 9P

HEROIC 2-0 Moodeng

Group B

1:30pm

PARI 1-1 Liquid

GG 2-0 BOOM

TSpirit 2-0 CHMR

AVULUS 0-2 YkBros

6:30pm

GG 1-1 Liquid

PARI 0-2 TSpirit

AVULUS 1-1 CHMR

YkBros 1-1 BOOM

Feb. 17

Group A

11am

HEROIC 0-2 Tundra

Falcons 1-1 XG

Moodeng 0-2 BB

SR 1-1 9P

4pm

SR 1-1 Tundra

Falcons 2-0 HEROIC

Moodeng 2-0 XG

9P 0-2 BB

Group B

1:30pm

PARI 2-0 GG

AVULUS 0-2 TSpirit

YkBros 1-1 Liquid

BOOM 0-2 CHMR

6:30pm

PARI 2-0 AVULUS

BOOM 0-2 TSpirit

YkBros 1-1 GG

CHMR 2-0 Liquid

Feb. 18

Group A

11am

BB 0-2 Tundra

Falcons 2-0 Moodeng

SR 0-2 HEROIC

9P 1-1 XG

4pm

BB 2-0 HEROIC

Tundra 2-0 XG

Falcons 2-0 SR

9P 0-2 Moodeng

Group B

1:30pm

Liquid 1-1 TSpirit

CHMR 1-1 GG

PARI 1-1 YkBros

BOOM 1-1 AVULUS

6:30pm

TSpirit 2-0 GG

Liquid 2-0 AVULUS

CHMR 2-0 YkBros

PARI 1-1 BOOM

Feb. 19

Group A

4pm

BB 2-0 SR

Tundra 2-0 Moodeng

XG 0-2 HEROIC

Falcons 2-0 9P

Group B

6:30pm

GG 2-0 AVULUS

PARI 1-1 CHMR

Liquid 1-1 BOOM

TSpirit 1-1 YkBros

Feb. 20

Group B Tiebreakers (best-of-ones)

1:30 pm

YkBros 1-0 Liquid

2:30pm

GG 1-0 YkBros

3:30pm

Liquid 1-0 GG

5pm

YkBros 0-1 Liquid

6pm

GG 0-1 Liquid

Group Stage Two

After five days of the first group stage, eight out of the initial 16 teams have made it to the second one. Group Stage Two runs from Feb 21 to 27 with the teams battling each other in four best-of-three series each day. At the end of it, the top two teams will advance to the upper bracket of the playoffs, while the third and fourth-place teams will make it to the lower brackets—the bottom four getting the axe.

All times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Feb. 21

10am: BB 2-1 Liquid

1:30pm: Falcons 0-2 PARI

5pm: Tundra 2-0 TSpirit

8:30pm: CHMR 2-1 HEROIC

Feb. 22

10am: TSpirit 2-0 BB

1:30pm: Liquid 0-2 CHMR

5pm: HEROIC 1-2 Falcons

8:30pm: Tundra 1-2 PARI

Feb. 23

10am: Falcons 2-0 Liquid

1:30pm: CHMR 2-1 TSpirit

5pm: Tundra 2-0 BB

8:30pm: PARI 2-0 HEROIC

Feb. 24

10am: BB 1-2 CHMR

1:30pm: TSpirit 2-0 Falcons

5pm: Liquid 0-2 PARI

8:30pm: Tundra 2-1 HEROIC

Feb. 25

10am: CHMR 0-2 Falcons

1:30pm: BB 1-2 PARI

5pm: Tundra 0-2 Liquid

8:30pm: TSpirit 2-0 HEROIC

Feb. 26

10am: Tundra 2-0 CHMR

1:30pm: Falcons 0-2 BB

5pm: PARI 2-0 TSpirit

8:30pm: HEROIC 2-0 Liquid

Feb. 27

10am: PARI 2-0 CHMR

1:30pm: Tundra 2-0 Falcons

5pm: Liquid 1-2 TSpirit

8:30pm: HEROIC 1-2 BB

Playoffs

After two long group stages, the initial pool of 16 teams is now down to four. PARIVISION reached the upper bracket with no series loss in the second group stage. Albeit not as flawlessly, Tundra also headed to the upper bracket. On the lower-bracket side, there are Spirit and Chimera, who’ll be fighting it off in the first series of the playoffs.

All times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

March 1

2pm: Spirit 2-1 CHMR (Lower Bracket Semifinal)

5:30pm: PARI 1-2 Tundra (Upper Bracket Final)

March 2

12pm: PARI 0-2 Spirit (Lower Bracket Final)

3:30pm: Tundra 1-2 Spirit (Grand Final)

Dota 2 DreamLeague Season 25: Where to watch

There are four concurrent games across the group stages of DreamLeague Season 25. You can watch them on four different Twitch streams (ESL_Dota2, ESL_Dota2Ember, ESL_Dota2Storm, and ESL_Dota2Earth) and on the ESL Dota 2 YouTube channel.

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