The American pro Dota 2 team Evil Geniuses won the game's biggest eSports event ever this past weekend, taking home a cool $US6.6 million as a reward. What's really cool about their victory is how, specifically, they accomplished it. It all came down to one awesome and highly improbable play.
Games of Dota 2 are usually played with two teams of five. So what happens if you double that number? A lot of things, most of them involving killing and/or dying.
This must be one of the coolest eSports arenas we've seen so far. Valve's annual Dota 2 tournament The International kicked off yesterday and they have built a stage that fits the $US18 million total prize money.
The annual tournament for Valve's popular online multiplayer game Dota 2 is just getting started, and this year the crowd-sourced prize pool is bigger than ever before. 16 teams will compete for prizes totaling $US18 million over the next five days, with the first place team winning $US6.4 million.
