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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.

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