The CDL invite finals are currently live with a best of five casted by Maut over at http://www.twitch.tv/neodota/new.
The series will be played between British Columbia IoT and Dalhousie, two very exciting Canadian teams.
Quarter Finals Recap
Results for CDL Spring invite quarter finals:
Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and Dalhousie all swept their quarter finals matches 2 - 0 over UNC, UC Berkeley, and GMU respectively.
BC IOT also managed to win 2 - 1 over UT Austin.
This weekend we can look forward to Carnegie Mellon vs. BC IOT and Cornell vs. Dalhousie in what are sure to be some very exciting Best of Fives.
CDL Invite
In conjunction with the CDL Spring Open CDL will be hosting an invite event that will run along side the Spring Open.
A total of 10 teams have been invited to play in the event which will follow a Single Elimination bracket with games held every weekend.
The full bracket with dates can be found below.
http://binarybeast.com/xDOTA21303312#
CDL Spring Open
CDL Spring, a Dota 2 league spanning the rest of April, with playoffs in May, kicks off next weekend. Twenty-eight teams from across North America have signed up. They will be divided into groups of four, with group play beginning on April 13th. The top two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs, where they will compete for the title of CDL Spring Champion!
Signups for the event are closed. If you would like to participate, please check the list of teams here to see if your school is registered. If not, don't worry - CDL will be back in the fall!
And this event isn't all that's going on for the CDL right now. Stay tuned for an announcement of CDL's invite-only spring tournament, coming soon!
Jeez, what a start!
Two weekends ago held the first round of matches of the CDL and boy was it was packed with plenty of action and nailbiting comebacks! From Korok's "George Mason University eSports" being knocked down to the loser bracket by University of Toronto's "Taeyeon Peas", MIT's "Beaver Feaver" overcoming a huge gold deficit to clench victory against NC State University's "NCSU Wolfpack" (who has an amazing team logo, by the way) to settling a deeply rooted rivalry against Texas A&M's "Welcome to Clown Town" and UT Austin's "Pang Girls"!
Special thanks to FnaticRC.Rolo, Nils, Maut, and Beroya for taking the time to cast our matches!
CDL's current record number of viewers! Not bad for an amateur league, eh? :D
Match Spotlight: University of Texas at Austin's "PangGirls" vs. Texas A&M University's "Welcome to Clown Town"
On Monday, November 5th, two major rival school teams played against each other in DotA 2's CDL. Their rivalry is more popularly known in the College American Football world as the A&M Aggies and UT Austin Longhorns! Nevertheless, the games were action packed and even includes the infamous "AM picker" strategy. Did that strategy prevail? You'll have to watch the VODs casted by Maut to see! (Unless you already saw it during the stream, in that case, thanks for supporting us by watching and hope you enjoyed our coverage!)
Click here to see the VODs of the matches!
Match Spotlight: University of Toronto's "Taeyeon Peas" vs. GMU's "George Mason University eSports"
Last Saturday, University of Toronto's "Taeyeon Peas" played against GMU's "George Mason University eSports". It was the first CDL match consisting of a team that has a professional player and boy was it was a great set of games! If you've ever thought that a single professional player could instantly spell your doom, you need to watch these games! Both teams played their hearts out and the games were going back and forth with the winner never being clear until the very end.
For a (slightly) detailed recap, click here. I apologize in advance because I do not have access to the replays, so the recaps are from strictly from my memory.
For the post-game interview with the team captain of "Taeyeon Peas", Joseph "Styx" Dunlap, click here.
Special thanks to Maut for casting these matches and his VODs will be up tomorrow evening for your viewing pleasure!
Just look at this crazy gold graph during game 1! So intense!
Welcome to the Collegiate DotA League!
Hello! I am Pandavas and I have whipped up this simplistic webpage for the CDL to use as the central hub for information, rules, etc. The CSL is going to provide us with our official website at a later date, but they are currently running way behind schedule, so the CDL admins have been taking matters into our own hands and making our own website for now!
Please be patient with us as we continually work on updating this webpage to keep it as up to date as possible. Right now we are scrambling to contact teams to figure out their roster, confirm/reschedule appropriate match times, etc. Luckily, the teams I am in charge of were very prompt, freeing up some time for me to work on the website some more!
Good luck with your matches, everyone!
-Pandavas
"Fun Facts"
- Currently there are 120 schools registered for the CDL! This number is subject to change as we are finding out that some schools have dropped and some schools have more teams.
- The CDL has some professional players on some teams, notably former Quantic member Steven "Korok" Ashworth and FnaticRC's Roland "FnaticRC.Rolo" Tarrazo!
- First blood has already been spilled in the CDL! MSOEdota and the USC Trojans played their hearts out yesterday evening!
- Special thanks to reddit user "Zaneyard" for coming up with the idea of sorting the list of teams by state for easy lookup!