Dota 2 The International winners scoop $1,437,204
"I'm so excited to watch the replays for The International 3's grand finals!" I thought this morning, with a little more grogy muttering and cussing, "But I'll just check there's nothing pressing in my work e-mail." And then I saw the press release from Valve at 5am boldly declaring the winner. Bum. So I'll avoid naming names in these opening lines, only saying that the winning five-man team takes home a whopping $1,437,204.
"I'm so excited to watch the replays for The International 3's grand finals!" I thought this morning, with a little more groggy muttering and cussing, "But I'll just check there's nothing pressing in my work e-mail." And then I saw the press release from Valve at 5am boldly declaring the winner. Bum. So I'll avoid naming names in these opening lines, only saying that the winning five-man team takes home a whopping $1,437,204.
The finals saw Swedish team The Alliance facing the mostly-Ukranian team Na'Vi. Every match of the best-of-five finals was needed to declare a winner, but The Alliance scooped the big money.
The Alliance won a staggering $1,437,204 as the winners, while Na'vi take home $632,370, and Orange earned $287,441. The top eight of TI3's sixteen teams all got prize money, down to $43,116 for eighth. The total prize pool was a colossal $2,874,407, boosted by sales of Dota 2's Compendium. Valve started the pool with $1.6 million, then added $2.50 for each $10 virtual sticker album it sold. Once again, its weird experiments with engaging fans have paid off nicely.
This was the third International finals for Na'vi, who won the first tournament, then lost to Invictus Gaming in 2012, and barely squeezed into the finals this year. Na'vi were losing badly in the third game of the best-of-three losers' bracket finals against Chinese team Orange, but mounted an astonishing comeback--helped in part by Orange accidentally denying its own Aegis.
Head on this-a-way to watch the finals if you missed them, either as commentated replays or plain old YouTube videos. Here's the first game of the grand finals, with all the grand fanfare, introductions, predictions, and Dendi shenanigans:
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"I'm so excited to watch the replays for The International 3's grand finals!" I thought this morning, with a little more grogy muttering and cussing, "But I'll just check there's nothing pressing in my work e-mail." And then I saw the press release from Valve at 5am boldly declaring the winner. Bum. So I'll avoid naming names in these opening lines, only saying that the winning five-man team takes home a whopping $1,437,204.-
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That's not trolling. There's a clear implication that I will name the winner later in the story.
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Why would anyone even be reading a story about the winner of TI3 if they were actively avoiding spoilers? A story which says it will reveal the winner at some point, at that. Who is this hypothetical fool?
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So because hypothetical people are bad at the Internet I'm trolling?
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I had no idea what was going on. Lots of fun to watch and learn. Video game tournament = YES.
the grand finale started off like WTF THESE PEOPLE ARE LOSERS... and then the last 3 matches... hold on to your butts. some reflexes and predictions and strategy and teamwork that was just amazing.-
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there is no way I could actually play DOTA2. I can at least derp around in LoL :D
but holy shit that tournament was just well done and the participants were great, the energy was great, and the whole spectacle was just awesome. the final 3 matches were just holy shit fuck.
also notice the perfect record at the end of a certain champion.
whoever has the fucking blue orb thing will win, I called it, lololol-
You owe it to yourself to try it out if you like LoL. Both games are cool, but I certainly don't play Dota2 because I'm "good", I play because I like it a little better than LoL and in both games the matchmaking takes care of adjusting for skill level. The nature of these multiplayer games is that everyone can play at any skill level, and almost no one can play at the level we saw yesterday. You'll always suck in comparison to someone and always be better than someone else, and you'll always win 50% of your games, so why not have fun and learn to be better and not worry about win rate and skill brackets?
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I'm pretty sure the casters just slipped up a few times. I clearly remember them clarifying that 100% win rate as being ONLY for the grand finals, and not the whole tournament.
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Er, not exactly. That rate increased to 123.5% when Na'Vi was doing fountain hooks.
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i was amazed there were no dead air moments like you get with mlg(sc2 when they just show the audience or waiting screens), every moment they had something planned. it was incredible. and you couldnt ask for a better final series to finish the tourney and showcase the game for the masses.
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I dunno, I felt like there was a lot of weird pauses among the analyst panel. Not exactly the same as content dead-air, but it did feel off to me.
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Watching all of the coverage this week lead me to one conclusion, Valve is really, really good at this. My only wish is that I could have watched the in-between game streams from the client. Watching the game from within the client is far superior.
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I think part of TI's huge success is because it's the one big DotA2 tournament of the year. Teams are formed leading up to it, and fall apart shortly after.
So long as DotA2 doesn't oversaturate like LoL or SC2, I think the TI's will keep being huge. If we get to the point where there's monthly huge tournaments like this, then the viewership will fall off dramatically.
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