EPL Masters I — Dota 2

finished

Won by Natus Vincere, runner-up Level UP.

game: Dota 2
dates: Jul 26 – Aug 12 2026
tier: 3
location: Europe
teams: 16

Placements and prize money

places and prize money

1 Natus Vincere $50,000

2 Level UP $25,000

3 Rune Eaters $13,000

4 Zero Tenacity $7,000

5-6 MOUZ $2,500

5-6 Yellow Submarine $2,500

7-8 Ilbirs eSports $0

7-8 Power Rangers $0

9-10 Nemiga Gaming $0

9-10 RE Arise $0

11-12 No Hoodwink $0

11-12 Team Syntax $0

13-14 Amaru Gaming $0

13-14 PuckChamp $0

15 Team Jenz $0

DQ KW $0

what this means

$0 — the place pays nothing: 10 rows of 16.

Champion

Natus Vincere

$50,000

first-place prize

9–0

Natus Vincere maps here, won–lost

100.0% of maps here, 57.0% over the season

5.8% of Natus Vincere’s season prize money: its 5th-largest payout of 16; the biggest: BLAST SLAM VI ($200,000); the same at BLAST SLAM V and EPL Masters II

On the roster at the start: gotthejuice, Niku, pma, daze, Riddys

How the pool is split

the pool is allocated by place in full

50.0%

first place

$50,000 of the $100,000 allocated

100.0%

top half of the rows

top 8 rows of 16 · $100,000

×2.0

first place to second

$50,000 against $25,000

Against the season: a larger first-place share than 24 of 47 events; median 46.5%.

what this means

The same pool is announced for 5 other events this season, so all 6 share rank 36.

Nearby in the season

neighbours by start date

Calendar

beforeEsports World Cup 2026
afterBetBoom Streamers Battle 14

Facts and records

titles this season for Natus Vincere; this is the 1st

tournaments without a title before this

2nd-longest of the season’s 44 titles

This was the first of Natus Vincere’s 2 titles this season; the other came at EPL Masters II. The club went 12 tournaments without a title before its first of the season — the 2nd-longest wait among the season’s 44 titles.

Maps played

94 maps · as of Oct 18, 2026, 06:44 UTC

All Dota 2 maps

40 min

median map, Radiant 53.2%

season: 40 min and 50.9% over 38 events with 10+ maps

Aug 12 Natus Vincere vs Level UP esports, Aug 12 W Level UP esports 25:57

Aug 12 Level UP esports vs Natus Vincere, Aug 12 Natus Vincere W 31:08

Aug 12 Natus Vincere vs Level UP esports, Aug 12 W Level UP esports 36:37

Aug 12 Rune Eaters vs Level UP esports W 53:03

Aug 12 Rune Eaters vs Level UP esports W 42:38

Aug 12 Rune Eaters W vs Level UP esports 48:07

Aug 11 Zero Tenacity vs Rune Eaters W 54:57

Aug 11 Zero Tenacity W vs Rune Eaters 37:58

Aug 11 Rune Eaters W vs Zero Tenacity 46:47

Aug 11 Zero Tenacity W vs Yellow Submarine 39:25

The 10 latest of 94 maps are shown; the longest of all ran 73 min;

what this means

Maps as of Oct 18, 2026. 6 maps have a per-player breakdown — those are the linked rows. The same date window also holds maps of leagues that do not point to this tournament unambiguously: The Games of the Future 2026 — 2 maps.

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Natus Vincere won EPL Masters I without dropping a map, 9–0, finishing with a 3–0 over Level UP in the final on August 12. None of the three final maps lasted longer than 37 minutes, against a median of 40 at the event.

The title ended a run of 12 tournaments without a trophy, the second-longest wait behind any title this season; NaVi’s other title came at EPL Masters II. The lineup was gotthejuice, Niku, pma, daze and Riddys.

Level UP reached the final by beating Rune Eaters 2–1 the same day. The $100,000 pool went entirely to the top six: the other ten entries, one of them a disqualification, received nothing.