8 digits prize money for the dota2 TI7 champion. minimum $10,000,000

[AceArea51]

After braking the record for total prize pool in eSports once again, The International 7 has breach the $10M mark for 1st place prize. The competition is organize by Valve themselves. Being a first party event, it allows Valve to crowdfund the price pool through in-game Battle Pass sales. With the sales still going on throughout  the month expect the prize money to grow.

https://www.joindota.com/en/news/57232-8-digits-1st-place-at-ti7-is-now-worth-over-10000000

[zzzzzzzhhh]

I'll just stick with some shady alleyway CS:GO gambling y'know.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Vespertine said:

I'll just stick with some shady alleyway CS:GO gambling y'know.

good luck getting that much in cs go, that's like 5000 d-lores fac new

[zzzzzzzhhh]

5 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

good luck getting that much in cs go, that's like 5000 d-lores fac new

Inspect element, elite hacking tools mate.

 

(Lmao both these posts are jokes).

[Taja]

Valve is so fucking smart. They invested big on the first TI (1M prize alone, and good production value) and now people throw money at them like there is no tomorrow.

 

Go Liquid!

[TOMPPIX]

who actually gets all that money?

[79wjd]

15 minutes ago, TOMPPIX said:

who actually gets all that money?

The teams who compete. The current prize pool is 23 million (which equates to 100 million in battle pass sales), that gets distributed to all the teams invited to TI.

 

So, the current distriution is: 

1. 10M
2. 3.6M
3. 2.4M
4. 1.6M
5. 1M
6. 1M
7. 570K
8. 570K
9. 340K
10. 340K
11. 340K
12. 340K
13. 100K
14. 100K
15. 100K
16. 100K
17. 50K
18. 50K

http://dota2.prizetrac.kr/international2017

[Stefan1024]

The higher the price the hearder the players try to cheat with SW or drugs.

Great!

[Admiral Naismith]

7 hours ago, Stefan1024 said:

The higher the price the hearder the players try to cheat with SW or drugs.

Great!

Not properly handling the 'cheating' problem is a major problem in competitive games in my opinion. Valve is particularly bad (see: CSGO) because of the way the company works. You'll never get rid of it, but you can definitely limit it.

 

To be fair, this is true in any sport. Just seems a hell of a lot worse in esports since its young and run by people who don't really care/think people are going to cheat as much as they do.

[spartaman64]

On 7/30/2017 at 1:28 PM, Stefan1024 said:

The higher the price the hearder the players try to cheat with SW or drugs.

Great!

 

23 hours ago, Admiral Naismith said:

Not properly handling the 'cheating' problem is a major problem in competitive games in my opinion. Valve is particularly bad (see: CSGO) because of the way the company works. You'll never get rid of it, but you can definitely limit it.

 

To be fair, this is true in any sport. Just seems a hell of a lot worse in esports since its young and run by people who don't really care/think people are going to cheat as much as they do.

its hard to cheat in a tournament setting where they provide you the computers and they have people monitoring everything and you dont have internet connection

[Taf the Ghost]

8 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

 

its hard to cheat in a tournament setting where they provide you the computers and they have people monitoring everything and you dont have internet connection

That's actually not the cheating that's would be an issue in Dota2. Ruri's access to all of the replays is. Dota 2's drafting phase sets most of the game, so knowledge of what a team is going to do is very valuable. 

 

As to the prize pool, not a big fan of it still being as top-heavy as they have it, but it should be noted. Previous to this tournament, the most money earned in a career from prizes currently sits at $2.8mil USD. ( https://www.esportsearnings.com/players )

 

Spots 5 through 9 are last year's winners. 1-4 all won TI5, which was 2 years ago, then took 3rd place (last year) with 4 of the 5 players.  Amazingly enough, Universe's top spot isn't in much jeopardy, seeing as he's on a top team and there's only a few in the tournament that could jump him. And of those, a top 4 finish still leaves him ahead.