The International (Dota 2) | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-23

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00:01:23 1 Tournament history
00:01:32 1.1 2011
00:02:56 1.2 2012
00:03:47 1.3 2013
00:05:24 1.4 2014
00:06:53 1.5 2015
00:07:49 1.6 2016
00:10:18 1.7 2017
00:11:45 1.8 2018
00:12:40 1.9 2019
00:12:55 2 Media coverage



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The International (TI) is an annual Dota 2 esports tournament hosted by Valve Corporation, the game's developer. The first tournament took place in Cologne, Germany at Gamescom in 2011 and was held shortly after the public reveal of Dota 2, with a total prize pot of $1.6 million. The second International took place in 2012 at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle, and retained the same $1.6 million prize structure. For the third International in 2013, again at Benaroya Hall, Valve introduced an interactive, digital "compendium" which fans could purchase to follow the event and contribute to the prize pool; which reached a $2.8 million prize pool with $1.2 million added from compendium purchases.
The fourth International, this time held at the larger Seattle venue KeyArena in 2014, continued the practice of compendium sales and ultimately broke records for having one of the largest prize pool in esports history, with a total of nearly $11 million. The fifth International took place in 2015, with the prize pool totaling over $18 million, making it the largest esports prize pool for a single tournament until being consecutively surpassed by the sixth and seventh Internationals. The eighth International was held at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada in August 2018.