The fact that they’ll be taking home a prize that now stands at $509,983 (around P23.8 million).
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Zhang Yunfan, president of Perfect World Games, a Beijing-based online gaming company that operates DOTA 2 in China, said that the rising status of Chinese teams on the world stage is in line with the growing popularity of e-sports in China. Barcraft United has a list of events from Brazil to Germany to Indonesia to-yes-the US, with everything from events that span the entire week of the tourney to one’s that only cover Saturday’s finals. Numerous teams such as OG, Digital Chaos, Team Secret and more have many players of different nationalities.
Day Three kicks off with Lower Bracket Round 2 matchups Alliance vs Fnatic and Newbee vs Team Liquid.
The search engine Bing is now getting involved in esports via Bing Predicts and major esports competition The International.
This month, eSports fans will have their eyes set on The International 6, an international competition commonly known as TI6. This year it was Escape Gaming and Ehome, the old Chinese giant.
They will now move forward into the Lower Brackets. Meanwhile in Group A, the long-time favorite OG took first place with an 11-3 record. One or two persons of Indian origin do represent leading teams – like Saheel Arora, part of the defending champions Evil Geniuses, and a few others. After slaying DotA titans, OG, MVP is cast to the underbracket by Wings in round 2 of the upper bracket. But since then, the Swedish team has had difficulty finding its groove. This being Alliance’s second loss in the tournament, they’ll be headed home, leaving only team Liquid left to represent the European region. Most fans expected NaVi to make it into the victor bracket given its success in the StarLadder i-League Tournament just a few weeks before The International.
If this is your first time tuning into a Dota 2 tournament, expect to be both confused by seemingly hundreds of odd terms and heroes, as well as amazed by the skill on display and electricity from the fans watching. In any event, today marks the real beginning of the Super Bowl for Dota 2 fans.
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Liquid managed a comeback after being outplayed by Newbee in the first game of their series. My first major exposure to the scene was during TI3, and once I began to grasp what things like “BKB” were, I fell in love.
