PGL Wallachia Season 9 — Dota 2
finishedWon by Team Yandex, runner-up Natus Vincere.
- game
Dota 2- dates
- Sep 19 – Sep 27 2026
- tier
- 2
- location
- Bucharest, Romania
- teams
- 16
Against the season
8.5
average season-table rank of Team Yandex’s opponents
the 21st hardest path of 28 season events; 4 of 7 series against table clubs
table favourite Team Yandex (3rd): won the event
6 of 16
clubs also played PGL Wallachia Season 8
up: Team Yandex 15–16 → 1; down: Aurora Gaming 2 → 5–6
41 min
median map, Radiant 40.4%
season: 40 min and 50.9% over 38 events with 10+ maps
Season-table ranks of 7 of 16 field clubs, of 17median 11
The thick mark is Team Yandex, 3rd in the table.
Record places
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Champion
$300,000
first-place prize
15–2
Team Yandex maps here, won–lost
88.2% of maps here, 61.1% over the season
10.9% of Team Yandex’s season prize money: its 3rd-largest payout of 16; bigger: BLAST SLAM VII ($400,000) and The International 2026 ($351,600); the same at PGL Wallachia Season 7
On the roster at the start: watson, CHIRA_JUNIOR, ATF, Saksa, Malady
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
30.0%
first place
$300,000 of the $1,000,000 allocated
87.5%
top half of the rows
top 8 rows of 16 · $875,000
×1.7
first place to second
$300,000 against $175,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 4 of 47 events; median 46.5%.
The same pool is announced for 14 other events this season, so all 15 share rank 5.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
- beforeEPL Masters II
- afterBLAST SLAM VIII
Facts and records
This was Team Yandex’s 4th of 5 titles this season, between BLAST SLAM VII and BLAST SLAM VIII; no club has won more this season. The club had already won this series earlier in the season, at PGL Wallachia Season 7; the previous edition, PGL Wallachia Season 8, went to BetBoom Team. In our season table of 17 clubs, it ranks 3rd by win rate, the highest of anyone in this field.
Maps played
114 maps · as of Oct 18, 2026, 06:44 UTC
The 10 latest of 114 maps are shown; the longest of all ran 86 min;
Maps as of Oct 18, 2026. 62 maps have a per-player breakdown — those are the linked rows.
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Team Yandex came to Bucharest with ATF, who had joined the roster only two days before the event, and lost two maps in the whole tournament, going 15–2. It beat LGD Gaming 2–0 on September 26 and swept Natus Vincere 3–0 in the final the next day. At Season 8 the same club had finished 15th to 16th.
Natus Vincere reached that final through two series in two days: 2–0 over Xtreme Gaming on September 26, then 2–1 over LGD Gaming on September 27, the same day as the final. The title was Yandex’s second Wallachia of the season, after Season 7; Season 8 in between went to BetBoom Team.
The Dire side had the better of this event: Radiant won only 40.4% of its maps, against 50.9% across the season’s events. The prize split was one of the flattest of the season, with first place taking 30% of the pool, a larger share than at only four of 47 events.