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SLTV has officially announced their annual StarSeries tournament cup with a prizepool of $40,000. Like The International and MLG Columbus, the prize pool of this season's StarLadder will increase by $2.50 for each DotaTV ticket that is sold. An additional $10,000 have been set aside as travel support for the teams that make it to the LAN finals.
A change in this season of StarLadder is that it features 18 teams as opposed to the usual 16. The format largely stays unchanged with a round robin group stage followed by a four team LAN finals in Kiev, Ukraine. First games of the season will start in three days on the 25th of November and go on until the 5th of January. LAN finals are scheduled to happen on the 17-19th of January.