Dota2's The International 2019 surpasses Fortnite World Cup prizepool, over $30 million and still going on

Deleted member 8196 · Jul 21, 2019

Valve earned nearly $114 million by selling battlepasses, levels and cosmetics and only 25% of the earnings went to the prizepool, there are still 35 days to go until the end of the Battlepass.

The International 2011 $1,600,000
The International 2012 $1,600,000
The International 2013 $2,874,380 (Starting from this year, the compendium/battlepass will increse the prizepool)
The International 2014 $10,923,977
The International 2015 $18,429,613
The International 2016 $20,770,460
The International 2017 $24,787,916
The International 2018 $25,532,177
The International 2019 > $30,003,818

This year's tournament will move to Shanghai, after starting in Cologne in 2011 followed by Seattle from 2012 to 2017 and Vancouver in 2018.

pochi · Jul 21, 2019

Now give us female personas cowards!

J2d · Jul 21, 2019

edit nevermind

Deleted member 8196 · Jul 21, 2019

J2d said:
Didnt valve earn 120 mil if the prize pot is 30 mil?

Valve contributed $1,7 million to the prizepool and $28,3 came from the Battlepass.
So, it's roughly $113 million

Dreams-Visions · Jul 21, 2019

That's a lot of money. Dota2 remains the esports prize pool standard-bearer.

Grats to all the participants, as everyone there is going to make great money, including last place.

plow · Jul 21, 2019

Crazy that LOL is sooo far off while being much bigger, like much much bigger.

Valve is doing a pretty good job at this.

PlzUninstall · Jul 21, 2019

I've not watched for the past few years but you can't fault what Valve are doing for the Dota2 pro community, actually getting decent money for their tournaments must be so refreshing in esports.

Absent Uncle · Jul 21, 2019

sayuri said:
Now give us female personas cowards!

Seriously. Would help the games anemic offering of female heroes. Barely 20 out of 115 isn't great.

Anyway, looking forward to TI! (And bot TI)

Deleted member 2802 · Jul 21, 2019

🍴 just gonna do $50M next year

Deleted member 49804 · Jul 21, 2019

Somehow Dota grew this and last year a lot.
Probably due to PUBG and CS:GO weakness and

J2d · Jul 21, 2019

I'm surprised the prize pool went up so much, isnt the userbase still roughly the same as last year?

janoGX · Jul 21, 2019

plow said:
Crazy that LOL is sooo far off while being much bigger, like much much bigger.

Valve is doing a pretty good job at this.

Riot looks for stability on their leagues, but they just added the trend of crowdfund with the championship skins line.

Dota 2 is like Tennis on the sense of payouts, compared to the Soccer/Football/Basketball approach Riot and League has.

Deleted member 8196 · Jul 21, 2019

janoGX said:
Riot looks for stability on their leagues, but they just added the trend of crowdfund with the championship skins line.

Riot is way more strict than Valve with leagues of tournaments.
What do you mean with stability?

Aegus · Jul 21, 2019

Stygr said:
Riot is way more strict than Valve with leagues of tournaments.
What do you mean with stability?

Presumably that different tiers of teams can actually make a living off of LoL.

I love Valve and watching Dota 2, but for sure the prize money the T2/T3 teams get is not enough to make a living.

plow · Jul 21, 2019

janoGX said:
Riot looks for stability on their leagues, but they just added the trend of crowdfund with the championship skins line.

Dota 2 is like Tennis on the sense of payouts, compared to the Soccer/Football/Basketball approach Riot and League has.

I guess you are right, although the Soccer part only works with the MLS since everywhere else Soccer isn't franchised.

SantaC · Jul 21, 2019

Is cs go folding?

mxbison · Jul 21, 2019

guess this just means a million more for the winner and t2/t3 remains dead?

Deleted member 8196 · Jul 21, 2019

mxbison said:
guess this just means a million more for the winner and t2/t3 remains dead?

Since when T2-T3 teams are dead at TI? OG last year was an underdog team with a new player that had 0 experience in professional Dota 2 and they won, Wings Gaming in 2016, they didn't get an direct invite and they had to go through open and regional qualifiers and they managed to win the whole tournament. There's no such thing as T1-T2-T3- during TI, everyone can win or lose against everyone. Newbee was a finalist during TI7 and at TI8 they finished the tournament in 13th-16th place. Evil Geniuses and Team Secret are "T1 teams" but in TI7 they finished in 9th-12th place.

Deleted member 2802 · Jul 21, 2019

KennyX said:
Somehow Dota grew this and last year a lot.
Probably due to PUBG and CS:GO weakness and

Nah, it has little to do with other games or NA/EU gamer trends in general. I mean Fortnite killed PUBG.

The playerbase has decreased markedly in NA/EU, but those sticking around often pay more. The only thing propping them up is whales and the Asian/Russian fanbase.

This Saudi prince Archangel Yuji spends $40-50k on the game every year. Chinese billionaire families spend thousands trying to one up each other.

Casker · Jul 21, 2019

Stygr said:
Since when T2-T3 teams are dead at TI? OG last year was an underdog team with a new player that had 0 experience in professional Dota 2 and they won, Wings Gaming in 2016, they didn't get an direct invite and they had to go through open and regional qualifiers and they managed to win the whole tournament. There's no such thing as T1-T2-T3- during TI, everyone can win or lose against everyone. Newbee was a finalist during TI7 and at TI8 they finished the tournament in 13th-16th place. Evil Geniuses and Team Secret are "T1 teams" but in TI7 they finished in 9th-12th place.

T2-T3 players don't make it to TI. We're talking about the players that try to make it professional full-time but can't because there isn't anything for them.

mxbison · Jul 21, 2019

Stygr said:
Since when T2-T3 teams are dead at TI? OG last year was an underdog team with a new player that had 0 experience in professional Dota 2 and they won, Wings Gaming in 2016, they didn't get an direct invite and they had to go through open and regional qualifiers and they managed to win the whole tournament. There's no such thing as T1-T2-T3- during TI, everyone can win or lose against everyone. Newbee was a finalist during TI7 and at TI8 they finished the tournament in 13th-16th place. Evil Geniuses and Team Secret are "T1 teams" but in TI7 they finished in 9th-12th place.

None of those are anywhere near to T2/T3

The guys practicing every day, all year and get elimated in the last round of the TI qualifier and getting $0 is what I'm talking about

Deleted member 8196 · Jul 21, 2019

mxbison said:
None of those are anywhere near to T2/T3

The guys practicing every day, all year and get elimated in the last round of the TI qualifier and getting $0 is what I'm talking about

OG was Tier 2 at TI8.
They started at the bottom in the open qualifiers and they won the tournaments, this is what a T2 team is

Casker said:
T2-T3 players don't make it to TI. We're talking about the players that try to make it professional full-time but can't because there isn't anything for them.

T2 are absolutely at TI, The International was never a T1-ONLY teams since the beginning and T2-T3 teams won the tournaments as well.
Alliance was a T3 team last year, they were pretty bad despite having sponsors and shit, this year they managed to get a direct Invite at TI.

Saying that there is anything to them is bullshit, Minor tournaments are full with T2-T3 teams and they run for the whole year.

Deleted member 49804 · Jul 21, 2019

shira said:
Nah, it has little to do with other games or NA/EU gamer trends in general. I mean Fortnite killed PUBG.

The playerbase has decreased markedly in NA/EU, but those sticking around often pay more. The only thing propping them up is whales and the Asian/Russian fanbase.

This Saudi prince Archangel Yuji spends $40-50k on the game every year. Chinese billionaire families spend thousands trying to one up each other.

Steam playerbase increased a ton in China because of PUBG, but those players don't play PUBG anymore.
So of course I'm not talking about US Or EU players here, but PUBG has a lot to do with it.

BlueManifest · Jul 21, 2019

I thought fortnite had a 100 million prize pool before? So how is 30 million the biggest

Deleted member 8196 · Jul 21, 2019

BlueManifest said:
I thought fortnite had a 100 million prize pool before? So how is 30 million the biggest

It's 100 million for all the tournaments, 30 million is for the "World Cup" alone.

Deleted member 2802 · Jul 21, 2019

mxbison said:
None of those are anywhere near to T2/T3

The guys practicing every day, all year and get elimated in the last round of the TI qualifier and getting $0 is what I'm talking about

I'm not sure how their pay is structured but actual Tier 2 teams have sponsorship. They have gear and monthly salary. They are not going zero dollars for the year. Tier 3 teams is the issue like young players who have to choose between say school or pro Tier 3 with no gear and no salary. The money is not good either way because the T2-3 tournaments outside of China are basically non-existent or like $100.

If you aren't on a top team and you aren't streaming or casting, I mean you have to use every available income source, not just winning.

This dog-eat-dog method is how Valve pays their employees too, so it's kind of in their DNA. Top dog earners get all the bonuses. If your team isn't producing profit you don't get the bonuses - just base salary

KennyX said:
Steam playerbase increased a ton in China because of PUBG, but those players don't play PUBG anymore.
So of course I'm not talking about US Or EU players here, but PUBG has a lot to do with it.

They don't play Dota either.

Deleted member 8196 · Jul 21, 2019

shira said:
I'm not sure how their pay is structured but actual Tier 2 teams have sponsorship. They have gear and monthly salary

Exactly, Alliance is T2 as fuck but they get paid and have a fuckton of sponsors for example.

mxbison · Jul 21, 2019

Stygr said:
OG was Tier 2 at TI8.
They started at the bottom in the open qualifiers and they won the tournaments, this is what a T2 team is

T2 are absolutely at TI, The International was never a T1-ONLY teams since the beginning and T2-T3 teams won the tournaments as well.
Alliance was a T3 team last year, they were pretty bad despite having sponsors and shit, this year they managed to get a direct Invite at TI.

Saying that there is anything to them is bullshit, Minor tournaments are full with T2-T3 teams and they run for the whole year.

OG had won 5 majors....

I guess we just have a vastly different understanding of tiers

TheInfinityGauntlet · Jul 21, 2019

Absent Uncle said:
Seriously. Would help the games anemic offering of female heroes. Barely 20 out of 115 isn't great.

Anyway, looking forward to TI! (And bot TI)

I'd never realised exactly how low it is damn

I'd rather they just make new heroes, the Kid Invoker already feels like a step too far but if they've already begun might as well right

Give me female Kunkka stat!

Kuosi · Jul 21, 2019

Stygr said:
Exactly, Alliance is T2 as fuck but they get paid and have a fuckton of sponsors for example.

Alliance is pretty odd one out, there's many teams playing in major qualifiers that don't really make much of any, like Final Tribe for example

Tenck · Jul 21, 2019

TheInfinityGauntlet said:
I'd never realised exactly how low it is damn

I'd rather they just make new heroes, the Kid Invoker already feels like a step too far but if they've already begun might as well right

Give me female Kunkka stat!

Wait a minute, is little invoker different from regular invoker?

Deleted member 8196 · Jul 21, 2019

mxbison said:
OG had won 5 majors....

I guess we just have a vastly different understanding of tiers

OG won 5 major with a completely different team

2018 OG had a new player with 0 professional experience.

mxbison · Jul 21, 2019

Stygr said:
OG won 5 major with a completely different team

2018 OG had a new player with 0 professional experience.

3 of them were already proven as some of the best players in the world

of course it was a surprise win, I still think it's crazy to call them T2

Sounds like the typical hyberbole to me, everyone who isn't currently winning tournaments left and right is T2/T3

Dreams-Visions · Jul 21, 2019

Imagine bickering and arguing about this.

Deleted member 49804 · Jul 21, 2019

shira said:
They don't play Dota either.

Well Steamspy disagrees with you.

texhnolyze · Jul 21, 2019

Does Fortnite prize pool come from fans too? I think that's the most impressive feat about Dota 2 TI prize pool each year.

Stygr said:
Saying that there is anything to them is bullshit, Minor tournaments are full with T2-T3 teams and they run for the whole year.

Exactly. There are minor tournaments held all over the world for the whole year.

Deleted member 27751 · Jul 21, 2019

Dreams-Visions said:
Imagine bickering and arguing about this.

Hey, we wanted eSports to be taken seriously so why not include the pay bickering?

Deleted member 8196 · Jul 21, 2019

Tenck said:
Wait a minute, is little invoker different from regular invoker?

Yes that's kid Invoker, same hero with kid voice and new FX.

Deleted member 2802 · Jul 21, 2019

KennyX said:
Well Steamspy disagrees with you.

They prolly playing autochess and some other mods inside the game.

My guess is Dota 2 the game has a lot less players.

mxbison · Jul 21, 2019

Dreams-Visions said:
Imagine bickering and arguing about this.

imagine people discussing something on a forum?

Deleted member 2802 · Jul 21, 2019

The NA qualifier Forward Gaming went bankrupt even with TI9 money on the horizon. Couldn't pay their players or stay afloat.

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