Gaming DotA 2 at Gamescom - the $1000000 tournament

[celerisk]

Yes, you read that correctly.
Winner team gets $1 million.

Valve today announced The International. This tournament will be the first time Dota 2 is shown in public, and will take place August 17th -21st at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.

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The tournament will be broadcast in four languages (Chinese, German, Russian, and English) free of charge. The winning team will receive $1 million

Source:
The DotA 2 Team: Announcement and some more details


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Well... I'm sure they know what they are doing :nuts:

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

HWHAT 1 million jezus christ, thats 200k per person. thats more than the highest paying starcraft tournies pay out, and i thought starcraft was the highest paying e-sport out there. looks like sc shall be getting competition from dota 2. which is a good thing i think, e-sports will be getting that much bigger. i can forsee dota 2 becoming really big, icefrog is great at balancing and valve is great at developing, and not to mention it's not starting off from the bottom what with dota already being so big and whatnot. (although its died down a bit recently)


no NA teams are playing though it seems, i can only recognize MYM and M5.

 

[Slapshot136]

o.o - im in koln during those days - I will look for this

 

[xPass]

Know what? Think I'd make a living playing games!

 

[Darthfett]

They know exactly what they're doing. They're selling the game to the competitive group of people that play LoL, DotA, or HoN, and trying to interest those who play other games competitively, like Starcraft.

 

[Vestras]

Yeah, it's totally wack. I imagine that amount of money means very little to Valve anyway. Lol.

 

[Slapshot136]

I think I found an advertisement for this.. maybe?

 

[celerisk]

In case you missed it: Dota 2 Gamescom Trailer

[video=youtube;-cSFPIwMEq4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSFPIwMEq4[/video]


So, what does a Hero truly need?
For sure a shopkeeper that looks slightly more honest

 

[camelCase]

I saw a few of the live games yesterday.
Seems the teams were screwing up left and right, hahahaha

Especially Singapore =/