Crazy! Valve's Dota 2 Tournament Champion Takes Home IDR 214 Billion

Telset.id, Jakarta – When you tell your kids not to play too many video games, you may want to think about it at some point. Yup, imagine that a champion of The International Dota 2 Valve can bring home a prize of USD 15 million or around Rp. 214 billion.

Valve’s The International Dota 2 Championship has just ended. According to Ubergizmo, the winning team, OG, took home the prize money of USD 15,603,133 or around Rp. 214 billion.

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In addition, the prize pool is only about half of the total prize pool for this year’s The International, which managed to generate a face value of USD 34,292,599.

It also marked the team’s second win in a row since last year. The money will be divided according to the portion to the team owner, manager and players.

In other words, the amount of money each player takes home can be significantly less than that number even though it should still be rather substantial.

It also makes it the biggest grand prize in eSports history although at The International’s rate of growth it could be even bigger next year.

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Just so you know, traditional sports like tennis don’t even have big prizes. Wimbledon singles champion Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep only took home USD 2.9 million. [BA/HBS]

Source: Uberizmo