DoTA

The first ever Dota 2 tournament has been announced by VALVe using the Dota 2 blog.

With it's prize pool of 1,000,000 $USD, yes you read this right, 1,000,000$ - jaw dropping is an understatement. NVidia will also provide all the hardware for the event.

The International will be held at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany between August 17-21. This will be the first showing of the game to the wide public. 16 top teams from everywhere throughout the planet have been paid expenses and will travel to the event to show the world how Dota 2 is played in a historical inaugural tournament.

Group stage double-elimination will be the format for this and it will be broadcasted LIVE in English, German, Chinese and Russian.

Here is the list of teams participating :

GGnet
MYM
Na'Vi
CCM
LGD
TyLoo
OK.Nirvana.int
M5
MiTH-Trust
EHOME
StarsBoba
OK.Nirvana.cn
nevo
Scythe.SG
MUFC
Mineski.Infinity

The prize distribution for the top 8 teams is as follows:

1st place: $1,000,000 USD
2nd place: $250,000 USD
3rd place: $150,000 USD
4th place: $80,000 USD
5th place: $35,000 USD
6th place: $35,000 USD
7th place: $25,000 USD
8th place: $25,000 USD

Watch livestream here:
http://dota2.com/tournaments/international/

Na'Vi won the championship. )


Gz to them.

Don't forget to sign-up for DoTA2 beta it should come soon.