The DOTA 2 Asian Championships Spring 2017 was recently announced and it will be held in Shanghai, China. The major tournament is said to happen at the end of February or in early March.

The tournament of DOTA 2 Asian Championships started in 2015. The DAC 2015, as The Oriental, is the first event of this series. It is a tournament organized by Perfect World and MarsTV.

The tournament was announced on Dec. 17, 2016 by PerfectWorld CEO Xiao Hong during the Perfect Ceremony 2016. He said the DOTA 2 Asia Championships will come back in the spring of 2017.

The DOTA 2 Asian Championship 2015, or DAC 2015, have some similarities with The International tournament. The quality of recent results of the teams invited and to those to the qualifiers and the size of the total prize, this reason the DAC 2015 has been referred to as The International of the East.

According to a previous report here in Mobilenapps, the qualifying phase for the Kiev DOTA 2 Majors will be held on the first week of March. To make sure the results of the event will have a significant effect for the teams in the Kiev Major, it would be ideal that the DOTA 2 Asian Championships tournament take place before the qualifiers happen.

A lot of DOTA enthusiasts are excited for the return of the DOTA 2 Asian Championships in Spring, and they are hoping that the event format will be similar to the last event. It will be beneficial and entertaining to have a Major tournament before TI7 that would be a group double elimination event Rattle Royale.

Gosugamers report that the prize pool of the recent DOTA 2 Asian Championship is $1,064,777. This coming Asian Championship of Spring 2017 is said to offer the same range of prize.With the Patch 7.0 just recently deployed, new adjustments and strategies are expected from competing teams.