Workforce Spirit takes dwelling $18.2M as winner of The Worldwide Dota 2 Championship

Workforce Spirit gained The International Dota 2 Championship event, taking dwelling $18.2 million of the report prize pool of greater than $40 million.

Held in Bucharest, Romania, the International Dota 2 Championship concluded this weekend with Workforce Spirit taking the the highest honor within the largest esports prize pool in historical past.

The prize is supplied by each Valve and neighborhood purchases of particular interactive occasions equivalent to Compendium and Battlepass. Based mostly in Moscow, Workforce Spirit is the primary crew from Japanese Europe to win since Ukraine’s Natus Vincere (Na’Vi) gained the primary Dota 2 Worldwide in 2011.

The Worldwide was initially launched in Cologne, Germany in the course of the 2011 Gamescom. It featured 16 of the world’s most elite Dota 2 groups competing in a gaggle stage, double-elimination playoff format for a grand prize of over $1 million. Since 2013 the general prize pool was bolstered past Valve’s $1.6 million contribution as properly asDota 2 neighborhood participation through a share of their microtransactions.

Dota 2 is a free-to-play, on-line motion technique sport created by Valve, the maker of a number of sport franchises like Half-Life and the operator of the distribution platform, Steam.

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This yr’s event was once more broadcast worldwide, freed from cost, with play-by-play commentary in a number of languages. I occurred to observe Workforce Timeless this yr via interviews with supervisor Peter Anders. Sadly, they have been eradicated early on within the Bucharest occasion.

Managing Workforce Timeless this yr was Anders’ first crack at working an esports group, after years of taking part in and finding out esports in each highschool and school.

“It’s been nice seeing the prize pool rising annually, with higher manufacturing values for the tournaments,” Anders mentioned.

Within the closing event, the underside two groups get 0.25% of the prize pool, or roughly $100,000. The primary-place crew will get about 45% of the prize pool.

“It’s a ridiculous amount of cash,” Anders mentioned. “However the gamers are all there as a result of they love the sport they usually actually care about it.”