The six rankings tables below will be the primary way for teams to be invited to all of the events in the ESL Pro Tour, alongside qualifiers if they are held, although there won't be any qualifiers for season 1 of the EPT.

All EFG events will ensure that there is a minimum of one team per region at each event. Additional teams will be added per region by measuring the strength of each region in any previous events that included multiple regions. To this point, even prestigious events may be omitted from the rankings process, like the ESL One Stockholm Major, due to the absence of Chinese teams at that event.

For EFG competitions with more than 13 participants, a second slot will be assigned to each region as long as a team from the region has reached at least Top 12 in one of the last two pertinent competitions — if any region has failed to do so, they will only receive one guaranteed slot.

For any additional slots not assigned to regions or teams through other circumstances, the regional Elo rating will be used to determine the amount of slots for each region. The order of the teams will be decided by the results based ranking system discussed above.

Each team, and each region, has an Elo rating. The team's rating is updated after each game they play — regardless of their opponent.

Events within the Dota ecosystem will award points based on strength of field and diversity of regional inclusion. To ensure that a region is always able to attain points, teams will be considered pertinent both if they are in Division 1 of the DPC for their region, and if they are in the Top 8 of the Dota 2 EPT Regional Rankings with at least 190 points (This is equal to finishing 8th in one season of Division 1 DPC). The points will be assigned to each tournament at the tournament start date based on this criteria — The administration reserves the right to exclude tournaments that have questionable standards of integrity.

Both teams and regional Elo will decay over time, and the uncertainty will decrease (causing scores to fluctuate more dramatically, in the time immediately following major gameplay patches).

For each additional slot in a tournament, the region with the best Elo score will receive the slot. After a region is awarded a slot at the tournament, the next best team from that region still included in the calculation will be removed after receiving the slot, the region's score recalculated, and the next spot assigned to a team through the same process. It is important to note that the removed  team will be replaced by the next best rated team from that region. These steps will be repeated until all slots have been assigned to their respective regions.

For DreamLeague Season 19, Western Europe was granted 3 extra slots due to the region's Elo score, while North America was granted 1 extra slot.

Teams with scheduled matches in valve-sanctioned competitions during the tournament dates are ineligible to be invited to DreamLeague or EPT events.

By default, for each region with 2 teams invited, it will exclude the best teams' results from its outcomes — this is to ensure that one good team is unable to earn its region a disproportionate number of slots. If a region only receives one slot through the above process, then the best teams' result will be included.

Once the slots for each region have been assigned, invites will be awarded to the teams in order of their position in each regional ranking.

Should a team decline an invitation, the invite will move down that region's rankings to the next eligible team.