The regular season of Asian DotA Championship III finally begins after narrowing down 400 teams participating in the qualifying stage to a mere ten teams, each one representing their own country. The top two teams will secure their spot in the playoffs where they will face the winner of the third versus sixth, and fourth versus fifth team in double elimination and BO3 format.

In this new season of ADC, the organizers have decided to include an upcoming region in the world of competitive DotA, Oceania, to increase the challenge and strategy varieties of the tournament. Besides that, ADC will be using the newest stable version, 6.62 and to spice things up a litte, no heroes will be autobanned including the new Tauren Chieftain, Batrider and the recent revamp of Lightning Revenant.

As always, the prize pool turned out to be pretty magnificient, pooling up to $4350 for the regular season and more prizes to be announced for the playoffs.

Placing	Prize
Champion	$1200
Runner-up	$800
2nd runner-up	$600
4th place	$400
5th place	$350
6th place	$300
7th place	$250
8th place	$200
9th place	$150
10th place	$100