By Sagar V. Mankar 
Team Spirit has emerged as the winner of DreamLeague Season 25, securing their first win in the 2025 Dota 2 season and ending a ten-month victory drought.
The tournament, which ran from February 16 to March 4, 2025, saw the Russian organization display exceptional skill from the start. Team Spirit dominated Group B with an impressive 5-2-0 record, making them the only undefeated team in the Group Stage.
After securing third place in the second group phase, Team Spirit continued their strong run through the playoffs. They defeated Chimera Esports 2-1 in the lower bracket semi-finals before sweeping PARIVISION 2-0 to advance to the grand finals against The International 2022 champions, Tundra Esports.
The grand finals took an unexpected turn when Team Spirit, leading 2-1, reported that two of their players—Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov and Denis “Larl” Sigitov—were victims of a DDoS attack 18 minutes into the fourth map. This disruption forced organizers to postpone the remainder of the finals to March 4. However, Team Spirit returned and successfully completed their victory, ultimately winning the series 3-2 against Tundra Esports.
The $1 million prize pool was distributed among the participating teams as follows:
- Team Spirit: $300,000
- Tundra Esports: $175,000
- PARIVISION: $120,000
- Chimera: $85,000
- Team Falcons: $52,500
- BetBoom Team: $47,500
- Team Liquid: $42,500
- Heroic: $37,500
- Gaimin Gladiators and Shopify Rebellion: $25,000
- Yakult’s Brothers and Moodeng Warriors: $20,000
- BOOM Esports and Xtreme Gaming: $15,000
- 9Pandas and AVULUS: $10,000
DreamLeague Season 25 proved to be a viewership success, achieving peak viewing figures of 416,166, according to Esports Charts. This made it the most popular event in the series in six years. Team Spirit featured prominently in viewer interest, appearing in all five of the most-watched matches of the tournament. The event accumulated over 23.8 million Hours Watched across 167 hours of airtime, establishing it as the most popular Dota 2 competition of 2025 so far.