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Riot has locked the venue and format for June's Mid-Season Invitational — two Korean seeds, a returning Americas presence, and a $2,000,000 prize pool.
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Riot has locked the venue and format for June's Mid-Season Invitational — two Korean seeds, a returning Americas presence, and a $2,000,000 prize pool.

From Fly's Virtus.pro exit to HEROIC's January rebuild and Nisha's break, the Dota 2 roster market never actually closed after TI 2025.

The first VCT season under the 2026 rules opened in January with dramatically reshuffled rosters — and a French super team already setting the pace.

The post-Budapest-Major rostermania opened with Spirit rebuilding around donk, gla1ve taking over 100 Thieves, and snax returning to GamerLegion.

One season after merging the Americas into a single league, Riot Games is pulling the plug and reviving the LCS and CBLOL as separate competitions.