For the primary time since 2017Dota 2’s world championship, The Worldwide, will return to Valve’s hometown of Seattle, Washington. It will happen from the center to the top of October in Local weather Pledge Enviornment in Seattle. The Worldwide has lengthy held status as the only most profitable occasion in esports, with a base prize pool of US $1.6 million supplemented into the tens of hundreds of thousands by buy of Dota 2’s battle move.
Valve hasn’t introduced ticketing or pricing data for the occasion but, apart from that the variety of tickets accessible needs to be a lot increased than for earlier occasions.
This 12 months’s group stage will start on Saturday, October 14, with playoffs instantly afterward. These can be referred to as The Highway to the Worldwide, as regular. The Worldwide correct will start on Friday, October 27, and run by means of Sunday, October 29.
Local weather Pledge Enviornment will very notably be the most important venue within the historical past of The Worldwide, with by far probably the most seating capability of anyplace the occasion has been held. The the large 17-18,000 seat venue in Seattle was renamed by Amazon in 2020.
The final Worldwide was a stunning one for a lot of causes. Held in Singapore, its still-huge $18 million prize pool was the primary to be smaller than the occasion earlier than it. The occasion was additionally racked with scandals surrounding ticket scalping, irritating the neighborhood of gamers who needed to attend.
This 12 months’s worldwide needs to be a fairly wild one for various causes. Not simply due to the wild card of groups which have succeeded and never in Dota this previous 12 months, however as a result of the patch that simply bought launched was principally Dota 3 (opens in new tab). An overhauled interface, new hero kind, and heaping steadiness modifications is perhaps sufficient, however the large New Frontiers Replace additionally elevated the fundamental measurement of a Dota battlefield by 40%. It is a wild shakeup.
You’ll be able to learn the complete announcement on the Dota weblog (opens in new tab).
