The teams for The International 2026 (TI 15) are all set after the conclusion of the regional qualifiers for Dota 2’s biggest and most prestigious event of the calendar.
The International 2026 will run from August 13 to August 23, with the 16-team Swiss Stage leading to a 10-team elimination stage, culminating in the eight-team playoffs at the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai.
All qualified teams for The International 2026
- Aurora Gaming (Invited)
- BoomBoys* (Invited)
- Team Falcons (Invited)
- Team Liquid (Invited)
- Tundra Esports (Invited)
- Xtreme Gaming (Invited)
- Team Yandex (Invited)
- Team Spirit (EU 1st/2nd)
- Team Vision* (EU 1st/2nd)
- Nigma Galaxy (EU 3rd/4th)
- HULIGANI (EU 3rd/4th)
- Team Resilience (China 1st)
- Vici Gaming (China 2nd)
- OG (SEA 1st)
- GamerLegion (NA 1st)
- LGD (SA 1st)
*BetBoom and Parivision are playing under the titles ‘BoomBoys’ and ‘Team Vision’ due to Valve restrictions on betting site team names for The International.
Nine teams made it through regional qualifiers to add to the seven invited rosters, with the EU qualifier being, as usual, the most brutal and bloody.
The EU qualifier saw MOUZ, NAVI, Virtus.pro, and Yellow Submarine amongst the teams to miss out. MOUZ miss out on their first TI since Melchior ‘Seleri’ Hillenkamp’s retirement, while NAVI are left to question whether removing Pos 4 player Baqyt ‘Zayac’ Emiljanov in favour of Tamir ‘daze’ Tokpanov was the correct call.
NAVI and Virtus.pro both fell to HULIGANI in the lower bracket, a significant coup for the Tier 2 L1GA TEAM core, competing under HULIGANI for TI 15.
Nigma Galaxy recovered from a 1-2 defeat to Spirit in the Upper Bracket to defeat CIS talent pipeline Yellow Submarine to qualify for TI 15 in a vital result for the roster and organization.
The Chinese qualifier saw Team Resilience unexpectedly top the qualifiers, with Vici Gaming narrowly overcoming Yakatou Brothers in a lower bracket rematch. The result will leave Yakatou Brothers reeling after they had dispatched Vici 2-0 in the Upper Bracket, only to fall 1-2 in the rematch.
Elsewhere, the LGD roster are still riding the high of being picked up by an organization, and a legendary one at that, easily making it out of the qualifiers to make their first TI under the LGD brand after Heroic’s withdrawal from the Dota 2 scene.
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Darragh is an Esports Journalist for Insider Gaming specialising in Counter-Strike. He loves to explore how esports teams work, or why they very often do not.
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