Did you know that tournaments DOTA 2 The biggest in the world always has very attractive prizes. The 2023 TI (The International) prize even reaches hundreds of billions, bro, big, right?
Its popularity as MOBA games perhaps not as strong as Riot Games' League of Legends, which can be said to still dominate many major regions, from the United States to China and Mobile Legends in the South East Asia (SEA) region.
However, when talking about annual tournaments, there is always something special about DOTA 2 International which is sponsored by Valve. Including the TI 2023 prize.
So, how much is the TI 2023 prize? To find out, please see the explanation below.
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What is TI DOTA 2?
Maybe you don't know about this tournament if you don't follow the DOTA game.
If in Mobile Legends there is the M World Championship, Dota 2 also has a world championship called The International.
The International is an annual Dota 2 tournament organized by Valve and is a big magnet for Dota 2 fans all over the world.
This tournament, which started in 2011, continues to be the center of attention because of the many prizes on offer.
Then, he routinely managed to break world records for tournaments esports and the world's largest prize pool also annually (over 10,000,000 USD) for the 2017 winner.
It is not surprising that this is an event that is highly anticipated by fans and professional players all over the world, including Indonesia.
So, this year it will be held on October 12 2023, and will last until Sunday, October 29 2023 at the Climate Pledge Arena, Seattle, United States.
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IT Prize 2023
Maybe you will be surprised if you hear about the prizes awarded for tournaments games this.
The reason is, since the first event alone the prize was 10 million dollars and this is a very large amount for an esports competition.
Unfortunately, this year there has been a lot of criticism from pro players. Because the prizes are still very small compared to several previous tournaments.
Reporting from the liquipedia page, the 2023 TI prize is only around $2,914,922 USD (Rp. 45,850,994,329.50 or Rp. 45 billion) and this is far from the expectations of pro players.
In fact, The International's prize pool has been obtained from Compendium/Battle Pass sales since Valve first introduced this structure in 2013.
With the help of the community, the amount of money offered in TI increased every year between 2013 and 2021.
The launch of the TI12 Compendium has not been well received by most of the Dota 2 community or players.
In addition to the lack of skin items, some traditional Battle Pass features are also missing this year. Therefore, this year's prize pool growth is the slowest in recent years.
Valve has also confirmed that all Compendium sales will be available until November 17, 2023, with 25 percent of the proceeds going to the TI 12 prize pool.
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Match Format and TI 12
The match format of this tournament will be held with a group system at the start. Four teams from each of the five teams will play for two levels, eliminating the finalists in each group.
Therefore, each Dota 2 team will only play four matches, not nine matches as before, each match will have an impact on the final ranking of one of the teams.
The group phase will start on October 12-15 2023. Continue to the playoffs starting on October 20 2023 at the Seattle Convention Center, with the top 8 teams fighting for four places in the upper bracket.
Reporting from the official Liquipedia page, all teams that will take part in TI 12 are complete.
Two professional Indonesian players will take part in the highest caste Dota 2 tournament. They are Matthew “Whitemon” Filemon from TSM and Rafli “Mikoto” Fathur Rahman from Talon Esports.
The following is a list of teams that will take part in International 2023, where the first 12 teams will be called and the rest will be qualifying teams:
- Team Liquid
- Gaimin Gladiators
- Tundra Esports
- 9 Pandas
- Evil Geniuses
- LGD Gaming
- Shopify Rebellion
- Talon Esports
- beastcoast
- TeamSpirit
- TSM
- BetBoom
- Nouns
- Keyd Stars
- Thunder Awaken
- Virtus. pro
- Entities
- Quests
- AzureRay
- Team SMG
So, that's the information regarding the 2023 TI prize, which is still small compared to the previous year. So, are you interested in watching?
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