- Valve has confirmed the next iteration of The International Dota 2 tournament
- TI10 will take place in Stockholm, beginning August 5
- A prize pool of $40 million will be distributed among the winners
A huge prize pool of $40 million awaits the champions of the upcoming The International 10 Dota 2 tournament.
The International Returns with a Bang
It’s official! The most awaited Dota 2 tournament series “The International” will be receiving its next edition very soon: TI10 will take place in Sweden’s capital Stockholm and will begin on August 5.
The International 10 will serve as a follow-up to the DPC season. It was originally planned for 2020 but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Aegis of Champions is in play once more,” Valve announced in an official release.
Other than the champion’s title, a huge prize pool of the whopping $40,018,195 awaits the best of the best professional esports teams in Dota 2.
“As we continue to plan the event around the shifting landscape presented by the ongoing global pandemic, our focus remains on finding ways to hold a high-quality tournament in the safest way possible,” the company revealed.
Valve released some more elaborate news about the event’s schedule: it was revealed that the group stages would take place between August 5 and 8, followed by the main event between August 10 and 15.
Valve’s Further Plans
Valve revealed it would continue maintaining the constant stream of content instead of relying on dropping everything at once with a battle pass. Moreover, the company will be changing the format a bit as it will be hosting two other smaller events instead of a big one. For now, not much has been revealed other than that the first of the two will arrive in June, and the second will drop sometime after The International 10. Neither event will add up to TI10’s prize pool, as it was already boosted by last year’s battle pass.
Valve asked fans to wait on upcoming updates to learn about how attendance will work. The company promises to release more details as summer rolls up.
Despite the COVID-19 difficulties, Valve seems hellbent on delivering the best The International experience possible. The company has been hard at work at establishing easy-to-use systems with which fans can follow or support their favorite Dota 2 teams. And the sheer size of this year’s prize pool serves only to show how much TI and esports as a whole have grown. In comparison, the first TI back in 2011 had a prize pool of just $1,6 million. It will be exciting to see how TI10 develops.
