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Pro DotA Team Acquired For 6 Million Dollars!

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Valve are hosting a $1 million tournament for the upcoming DotA 2 at Gamecom this year – which definitely made me blink rapidly in disbelief – but now we’ve just heard that Chinese businessman, Sicong Wang, has just acquired one of the top DotA teams for a ludicrous $6 million dollars!

The team in question is Catostrophic Cruel Memories, aka CCM, who play Starcraft, DotA and Warcraft 3.

So, competitive gaming. Serious business. The weekend just passed was testament to the increasing growth of pro gaming as a sport and a business enterprise as both EVO and MLG ran record breaking events, in terms of user engagement.

Valve’s DotA 2 prize pool appears to be confirmation that Valve are looking to take the DotA brand to the competitive community in a very big way, and this $6 million acquisition appears to be proof that the competitive community is taking this game very seriously indeed.

Serious Biz: DotA Team Bought For $6m [RPS]

Thanks to Harli for letting me know!

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