All Dota 2 Events in 2026 — Full Dota Calendar

We’re just over 24 hours away from the new year, and the 2025-2026 Dota 2 season is already well underway. The season started off with the yearly post-International roster shuffle, followed by the first few major tournaments — all of which put the new lineups and rosters we saw coming out of the shuffle to the test.

But now that 2026 is nearly upon us, it’s time to look forward to what the new year has in store for us in terms of Dota 2 events. Without further ado, let’s get to it!

All Dota 2 Events in 2026 — Confirmed Tournaments

The last major tournament of 2025 was DreamLeague Season 27, which saw up-and-coming squad Team Yandex take the top prize after a spirited performance from Martin “Saksa” Sazdov and the rest of the unit. Afterwards, the holiday season, which is still ongoing at the time of writing, will mark a period of calm in the competitive scene, with no premier tournaments until February 2026.

The list of tier 1 Dota 2 events confirmed for 2026 is as follows:

Dota 2 tournaments to look out for in 2026

The initial list of tournaments heading into the new year is a bit smaller than that of last year, thanks mostly to the lull period in January and the omission of a particular event which I’ll get to later. For now, it bears checking out which tournaments should catch the eye of Dota fans all over the world this year.

Just like last year, almost every confirmed tier 1 event in the competitive scene will feature a prize pool of $1 million, with the inevitable exception of The International 2026 (TI15) which will likely have a small crowdfunding campaign to bolster its pot. Nevertheless, there are a few tournaments here that we know will at least partially take place inside a stadium or arena, in front of live spectators instead of just being broadcast on Twitch or YouTube.

These events include ESL One Birmingham, TI15, and presumably the four editions of BLAST Slam. ESL One Birmingham will take place at bp pulse LIVE in Birmingham, England, marking a return for the event to the city since 2024. BLAST Slam 6 meanwhile will be hosted at the BLAST studio in Attard, Malta — though it remains to be seen whether or not the studio itself will take in a live audience. The same goes for the three subsequent editions, the venues of which will be announced at a later date.

ESL One Birmingham is sure to be a fun time as it usually is, but I highly recommend trying to attend a BLAST Slam if you can. BLAST Slam 4 in Singapore, which I personally attended as boots on the ground for Hotspawn, was very satisfying and produced some truly hype games.

Unconfirmed Dota 2 Tournaments in 2026

Riyadh Masters/Dota 2 at the Esports World Cup

This one sticks out like a sore thumb. Easily the most lucrative tournament of 2025, Dota 2 at the Esports World Cup last year featured a prize pool of $3 million, which ended up being just a bit over $100,000 higher than what TI14 ended up with as a final figure. We all know it’s going to happen and that it will take place in Saudi Arabia; it’s just a matter of when at this point.

I mean, there’s no way that ESL and the Esports World Cup Foundation will leave one of the top esports titles out of their months-long esports festival — especially not after they ESL made significant changes to the Pro Tour for next season. We’ll just have to wait for them to finally tell us the dates.

FISSURE Playground/Universe

While there have been reports circulating the internet that FISSURE have shuttered their Belgrade studio in order to move back to Moscow, I think there’s still a pretty big chance that we’ll get at least one or two Dota 2 events from them in 2026. FISSURE Playground 2 wasn’t even that long ago, so I feel like their interest in hosting Dota tournaments is still there.

Hearing a rumour that FISSURE has closed their Belgrade studio and will be moving their HQ back to Moscow. If anyone affected wants to reach out in my DMs they are open.

— Richard Lewis (@RLewisReports) November 3, 2025

That said, they might be focusing on packing their stuff and shipping all of it to Moscow to prepare for their relocation, so I personally wouldn’t expect them to hold a Dota event until maybe the second half of the year. Hopefully I’m wrong and we see FISSURE Playground or even FISSURE Universe before then, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Clavision Masters

The Chinese Dota scene has not been particularly competitive over the last few years, but that didn’t stop Clavision from hosting Clavision Masters last year. Mind you, this was a fully offline event in China — something that I really didn’t expect to be financially viable in 2025. The home crowd even got to enjoy seeing Team Tidebound lift the trophy by beating Tundra Esports.

Unfortunately for that particular Tidebound roster, they couldn’t put the pieces together at TI14, which eventually led to Zhang “Bach” Ruida’s departure from the roster shortly thereafter. They reloaded with a different lineup after he left, but to no avail. In fact, Team Tidebound isn’t fielding a Dota squad at all right now, and the rest of the Chinese scene isn’t exactly up to par with Western and Eastern Europe today, either.

Still, I have hopes for a Clavision Masters 2026, even if the prize pool might be below the median like it was with the 2025 edition.