Initially the game is just a hobby or just to relieve stress. But, now Game has been so rapidly growing all over the world.
With more and more new games emerging, especially online games. So nowadays more and more game competition is now known as esport.
One of the most popular online games is DOTA 2. dota2 is a 5v5 real-time strategy match game developed by Valve corporation or better known as steam. And dota 2 players worldwide reach more than 13 million players every month. With many players dota2 around the world. Certainly made the appearance of many tournaments dota2 worldwide.
The International, often called TI, is an annual DOTA 2 tournament hosted by Valve. The International is the world's largest dota2 tournament event. And this year The International has reached its seventh year. This year The International 7 will be held again in Seattle for the sixth year in a row, whereas the first year of IT or TI 2011 was held in Cologne, Germany. The main event this time will be held for the fourth time at KeyArena, one of the arenas in Seattle Center.
Last year when The International 2016 DOTA 2 has made history. Guinness World Record officially declared DOTA 2 as esprot with the biggest prize in history and Wings Gaming as the team that won the TI6 as The biggest winner of esport prize in history. The prize pool of The International 2016 is $20,770,460 USD.
The initial prize of The International 2017 is $1.6 million USD. 25% of sales of Battle pass and compendium will be added to the final prize pool later. And the total temporary prize pool for now is $22,414,380 ($20,814,380 Added), and will still increase as there are 18 more days until the International 2017 Prize pool ends. The possibility of a new record will be engraved If the total prize of The International 2017 surpassed The International 2016.
After you know the prize pool of the biggest tournament in the world. Would you be interested in becoming a gamer and win the greatest prize in history?