[nirvAnA]

Remember the $1,000,000 DoTA 2 tournament that happened last year? Well the biggest eSports tournament of the year is back again, with a $1,600,000 prize pool featuring the top 16 teams from all over the world. Check out the prizes!

Prize Allocation

• 1st $1,000,000 USD
• 2nd $250,000 USD
• 3rd $150,000 USD
• 4th $80,000 USD
• ~5th $35,000 USD
• ~5th $35,000 USD
• ~7th $25,000 USD
• ~7th $25,000 USD

About The Teams

Group A:
absolute Legends
CLG
DK
Team EG
LGD
Moscow 5
MUFC
Zenith

Group B:
compLexity
Darer
EHOME
iG
mTw
Na'Vi
Orange
TongFu

The top two favourites to take the whole thing are Na'Vi and Zenith. Australia is represented by Absolute Legends.

Older Starcraft 2 players will remember iceiceice as the guy who came out of nowhere to get #2 in the Blizzard SEA internationals in 2010 and represent SEA at Blizzconn before quitting to go back DoTA2. He says he used to do well vs current GSL Champ Seed when they were both playing on the KR ladders and he misses playing Starcraft 2. Well last year his team walked away with $150,000 USD for finishing third. He was pretty pissed about it too because he felt they could have won the whole thing. This year his team is further strengthened by Singapore legends such as hyhy and the Swedish DotA super star Loda who was credited for pioneering some revolutionary strategy, who interesting relocated to Singapore to be closer to his girlfriend... who is none other than kellyMILKIES ! He now plays in ice's team "Zenith". Zenith's team manager is furryfish and their training HQ is the Singapore Razer headquaters. Check out their training video done by Razer here.

You Tube

You Tube

More info on the rest of the teams participating can be found here.

How Do I watch?
All of the games can be watched, live or as replays, in Dota 2 for free. Every steam account has access to their Dota 2 Spectator Client. You can also catch the VODs on their youtube channel.

Tobiwan's Stream

Official YouTube VODs | Official tournament homepage | Official Blog

[inFeZa]

So much money for a game thats still not fully released yet! T_T

Quick Comments

TCPLemminks:

Valve has a lot of money + this is thier marketing strategy

[TCPLemminks]

Ice^3 and Loda in the same teams? Wow that's pretty sick

[the.bouncer]

Watch Valve's epic DOTA2 The International Documentary Trailer about the life of pro-gamers...

http://www.joindota.com/en/news/3932...entary-trailer

joinDOTA.com's TI2 coverage page...

http://www.joindota.com/en/coverages/2395

joinDOTA also provides an introduction and analysis of all the invited teams.

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

Thanks!

[x5_dot]

1.6 mil................................... wtf o.O

[Bash]

Got my EG mouz & Navi Pennants ready, awwwyeah.

[ToR.Arnor]

Furryfish is such a babe, so cut I missed my opportunity to meet her!

Isnt Trent aka Slickz on aL? (The best player in TTesports HoN Team)

[the.bouncer]

aL lineup: australia's blackshatan, godot and snoopy, singapores' xmusica and canada's bleek

source:
http://www.joindota.com/en/news/3947...nal-2-teams-al

[ToR.Arnor]

Originally Posted by the.bouncer

aL lineup: australia's blackshatan, godot and snoopy, singapores' xmusica and canada's bleek

source:
http://www.joindota.com/en/news/3947...nal-2-teams-al

Nice Snoopy is a cool guy! ^_^

[Shinkz]

Support our aL boys!!

EDIT: No slickz, but Snoopy/blackshatan both played for my hon team in the past great guys! Musica also played HoN for a SG clan.

These guys are effectively the same group of people from 2 or 3 dota wcg (asia), like 3 smm's and gamescom in 2003, as well as many others.

EDIT2: Also pretty sure it starts Thursday the 30th, not tomorrow!

[Antel0pe]

Zenith Hwaiting and iceiceice = icecubed

[the.bouncer]

Originally Posted by Shinkz

Support our aL boys!!

EDIT: No slickz, but Snoopy/blackshatan both played for my hon team in the past great guys! Musica also played HoN for a SG clan.

These guys are effectively the same group of people from 2 or 3 dota wcg (asia), like 3 smm's and gamescom in 2003, as well as many others.

EDIT2: Also pretty sure it starts Thursday the 30th, not tomorrow!

Actually it starts tomorrow, 3 days of prelims, then 3 days of playoffs play starting on thursday.

edit: 6 days of nonstop dota2 action.
Each team will play every team in their groups for a total of 14 prelim games for each teams. then top 4 teams of each group will go to the winners bracket then the bottom 4 teams of each group will go to the losers bracket.

source:
http://www.dota2.com/international/p...hedule/sunday/

[AxSGRiM]

Team Zenith and Absolute Legends fighting!

[SmirkToT]

MUFC- -
little boy in mind should win.



also gogo Evil Genius and chinese teams

[Snx.FigJig]

Gogo zenith!

[Apostrophe]

MUFC's spot was replaced by Mouz, who is the winner of Mouz vs WE (the 2 back-up teams to be called for the event). Apparently, Sharky, one of the MUFC's players lost his passport at the Hong Kong airport.

More information here: http://www.sk-gaming.com/content/555..._International

On the other hand, I'm rooting for Zenith all the way.

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

wow huge mess up by Sharky omg the other players on his team :((

[Cyanide]

and for the benefit of others, games start about 7hrs from the time of this posting according to TL's Upcoming Events list.

[AceWing]

streaming starts tonight? or on the 31st? as in from the official stream itself

[the.bouncer]

Originally Posted by AtlasWing

streaming starts tonight? or on the 31st? as in from the official stream itself

streaming for the group stage will start tonight (preliminaries).
unofficially streaming started yesterday for the MUFC replacement match between mouseports (germany) vs world elite (china) wherein mouz took MUFC's spot by winning 3-0.
http://www.joindota.com/en/news/4003...-international

check valve dota2 official site for the schedule or games you want to watch...
http://www.dota2.com/international/p...hedule/sunday/

and also joinDOTA.com coverage page...
http://www.joindota.com/en/coverages...10_livestreams

Quick Comments

AceWing:

thanks for your help!

[ETL.Santi]

I hope we get a 1 million sc2 tournament someday