Did anybody expect it this quickly? It’s happened, TI 2015’s prize pool has broken $15 Million USD versus TI 2014’s final prize pool of $10,931,105.
Over the past few years, growth in the TI prize pool has been rather explosive. Just 2 years ago in 2013 the entire prize pool was only $2,874,381. It nearly quadrupled in 2014, to the aforementioned ~$11 million figure. Now, with time left to spare, the pool has broken $15 million for this year’s International tournament.
Dota 2 pros are in for the largest tournament prize pool ever, fans are hopefully going to be treated to more competitive play by the Western teams this go around. 2014’s China vs. China final left me disappointed.
Thanks: CyborgMatt
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I certainly did not expected that.
Mostly because I don’t even know what this is about. 😛
Not a Dota2 fan huh? It’s pretty fun but not for everybody, plus wrapping your head around the mechanics takes hours in and of itself. It took me about 8 hours just to understand what was happening.
I’ve never played any MOBA. >_>
It’s a terrible genre name considering the genre originated in an offline SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_Zwei
You should play Herzog Zwei, it’s a damn good game. There’s a modern game that rips it off entirely called Air Mech, IIRC it is available on Steam as well as the Chrome store.
I agree, but to be honest, it’s quite a mix mash of the genres looking from the outside IMO, MOBA while a dull definition fits for a quick, dirty and generic explanation.
Seeing HZ gameplay on yt, looks cool (always thought that Starcraft was being the precursor of the genre)! But seeing my previous history with the RTS genre (I have a Empire Earth copy which kicked my bum countless times even on easy modes) I dunno if I could succeed. I’m quite dumb when it comes to RTSs. 😐
when it comes to money valve normally gets some very good ideas. im sure this idea will be taken from other games in the future (the buying in game stuff and contributing to the price pool idea)
also dont really know about dota, but in starcraft the pro scene is dominated by koreans to the point where western players are lucky if theyre in the top 30 or something. i guess asians are just smarter than us :/
Holy hell, 15 Mil? You know that Valve got 75% of that money right? Those people at Valve are f’ing geniuses, they basically make the fans pay for the whole tournament and still got sh*t tons of money left in the bank. Talk about business strategy.
smoking hell.. GabeN on fire?
The way you say it makes it sound like Valve got 75% of 15Mil. They actually got 75% of 60Mil.
You’re right, thanks for the correction.