The Swedish e-sports-team Alliance in a Valve sponsored Dota 2 tournament for the grand prize of 1,43 million dollars won. The prize money would be the highest amount ever during an e-sports tournament for a game mode is paid.
Alliance played the final battlegame Dota 2 against the Na’vi team from Ukraine and winner in 2011. The Swedish team came in a best-of-five series as the winner emerge with a final score of 3-2. The Alliance members won the top prize of 1.437.204 dollar, the highest amount ever at an e-sports tournament for a game mode is paid, reports the BBC.
The Na’Vi-team won silver in an amount of 632.370 dollar, while the number three, the Neolution Orange-team from Malaysia, 287.441 dollar received. In total, the Dota 2 tournament The International has a prize pool of 2.87 million dollars.
At the International tournament in the American city of Seattle was played, did sixteen teams from twelve countries will participate. Every day there would be an average of 1700 spectators at the races have been present, while there are up to 600,000 gamers the livestreams viewed.
In the United States, e-sports is on the rise. The country gives, after some insistence from the pro-gamers, in the meantime temporary work permits to foreigners on American soil to train and play, a scheme that already operates for athletes, writes the LA Times.
