Dota 2’s The International, a single of the greatest esports tournaments in the entire world, has damaged its personal file as the most profitable esports party, with this year’s prize pool by now totaling additional than $34,396,000. The prior record was a prize pool of $34.3 million from very last year’s party.
Dota 2 developer Valve was forced to indefinitely hold off this year’s iteration, The Intercontinental 10, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That hold off was introduced in April. Valve has not yet introduced a new date. It’s not apparent if the match will even be getting place during 2020 at all.
Valve reported that it “can’t yet commit” to a new day for The Worldwide 10 or the return of the Dota Pro Circuit, a collection of gatherings that establish who qualifies for The International, in a tweet on Monday.
The prize pool for The Worldwide event is funded by buys of the Dota 2 battle go, which charges $9.99 (or $29.35 to unlock 50 supplemental levels, or $44.99 to jump up 100 concentrations at once). These passes reward gamers with in-match rewards and cosmetics as they development as a result of the concentrations. A quarter of the proceeds from battle move purchases are place towards the prize pool for the large event, so as lengthy as players keep on to obtain, the pool will proceed to improve.
Valve experienced beforehand introduced that the existing struggle move will be readily available until eventually September 19th. That’s a lot of time for the prize pool to keep rising.
