Actually a total of 20 teams. Top 12 DPC points for direct invite, 6 from regional qualifiers and 2 wild cards qualifiers.
Im not sure where do you guys both got this from but it will be 20 teams to begin with and only 16 will be going through the playoffs stage.
We'll have DPC before that though, schedules has been released though with some region like WEU starting off at 7th June. So basically few more days before we have something great to bet on
This is ideal to us who really love to make a bet with the e-sports gambling the more games the more bet to the teams this is new that they move the tournament in the October previous TI happens in the last week of the may and of course another hype because the event will happen in the Singapore which is part of the hype SEA server peoples.