‘DOTA 2 International’ in Seattle will have at least $1.6M prize pool
Erik Johnson (Market Director of Operations @ Valve) mentions here that the ‘DOTA 2 International’ in Seattle this summer (no date yet) will have a prize pool “at least” as big as the last International’s, which was $1.6M.
Also mentioned are:
- a LAN mode for Dota 2
- improvements to DOTA TV coverage for the event
- not clear yet whether Dota 2 will be free-to-play
- Valve aiming for < 100ms ping for all players by adding new servers
- support for modding the game
Tags: dota 2, prize pool, seattle, the international
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Nice find, my favorite part:
The size of the prize pool was discussed by every eSports community, with many talking about the negitive impacts it could have on the growth of eSports. What was Valve’s reasoning behind a 1.6million prize pool for a community that had only had $50,000 as it’s highest prize pool?
lol
CoD had a $1 mln prizepool(winning team got $400,000) before dota2 , just saying.
omgg if they achieve even half those things dota2 is gonna be amazing
Should spend that $1.6 mill to make the game good.
Game IS good. You’re just one of those punks that feeds my games.
God, this game is just going to fucking TRASH HoN when it’s up and running. It will take a big shit all over LoL after it’s done too. S2 just doesn’t want to face the music, they’re finished.
sad to say, but dota2 fucking sucks monkey shit. they need to fix the unit response time thing. it makes me not want to touch the beta. LoL has better response time on heroes for fucks sake
You sir are retarded, you clearly are mentally challenged or have some l2p issues. There is _NO_ unit response delay in Dota2. Stop expecting it to be the same as shitty hon. The game is slightly zoomed out and the heroes have different turn rates.
Only seen gay hon kids whine about some kind of delay. Get your facts straight and learn how DotA works or have a fun time in hon.
No, the game has built in delay(although you can disable it through console commands). Don’t talk about shit you don’t know about.
You are wrong. Dota2 is exactly like what it supposed to be, DotA. Don’t you think there would be a big out cry from the pros if there was some unplayable delay on tournaments and so on? There has been no pros that complain about delay, only hon kids that think because dota2 is different from hon there is something wrong. Get your facts straight son.
It’s DotA not hon, it’s big differences stop trying to think DotA should be like hon because it never was and never will.
It has delay moron, do you even play the game?
Have u seen Lina’s auto attack?
There is no delay, it is DotA. It’s how it works. It’s just like DotA1 on WC3.. It is exactly what it is supposed to be…
The delay thing was fixed a long time ago, Lina’s attack animation is just horrible to start with.
“support for modding”
big dota 2 macro assist g dropping bonanza?
You and your faggy moon army can do that. Me? Not so much. Don’t need a shitty G macro to make me feel good about myself when I get carried by randoms.