StarLadderTV team announced the start of their 3rd season. The first 2 seasons of the Star Series successfully ended up with a lot of mind blowing games.

This season's games will be fully covered by Vitalii "v1lat" Volochai , Vladislav "mtrx4u" Suzdal and Toby "TobiWanKenobi" Dawson for the English viewers.

Schedule
Online part : Monday , September 17th - Wednesday , October 3rd
Lan-Finals part : Thursday , October 18th - Sunday , October 21st
The full part schedule will be updated.

Tournament Format
The tournament will be played in a round-robin format. Each team will compete with all the other contenders until the top 8 are made. After that, the top 8 will be invited to play in the Lan-finals which will be played in Kiev, Ukraine, and compete for the prizes.

However, despite the regular online-part prize which is 15.000$ , there will be bonus in the Lan-finals.

Prize Distribution:
1st place - $6000
2nd place – $3000
3rd place – $2500
4th place – $2000
5th place – $500
6th place – $400
7th place – $350
8th place – $250

Participating teams:
Natus Vincere
Team Empire
Darer Entertainment
Counter Logic Gaming
NEXT.kz
Virtus.pro
mousesports
mTw
Evil Geniuses
BVM
fnatic EU
Copenhagen Wolves
Moscow Five
Quantic Gaming
The Retry
Team Y

Sources:
joinDota
StarLadder.tv