• Valve Announces DOTA2 - The Internationas Tournament wtih more than $1 Million Prize Money

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    Published on August 2nd, 2011 11:00  Number of Views: 3321  
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    The first ever Dota 2 tournament has been announced by VALVe using the Dota 2 blog.

    With it's prize pool of 1,000,000 $USD, yes you read this right, 1,000,000$ - jaw dropping is an understatement. NVidia will also provide all the hardware for the event.

    The International will be held at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany between August 17-21. This will be the first showing of the game to the wide public. 16 top teams from everywhere throughout the planet have been paid expenses and will travel to the event to show the world how Dota 2 is played in a historical inaugural tournament.

    Group stage double-elimination will be the format for this and it will be broadcasted LIVE in English, German, Chinese and Russian.

    With the help of the GGnet World DotA rankings, meet the teams of the Dota 2
    tournament.

    Dota 2 Teams at Gamescom 2011 (arranged according to rank)

    01. Meet Your Makers (World Rank: 1)
    02. Catastrophic Cruel Memories (World Rank: 2)
    03. Natus Vincere (World Rank: 3)
    04. Team GosuGamers (World Rank: 4)
    05. TyLoo (World Rank: 5)
    06. nevo (World Rank: 6)
    07. OK.Nirvana.int (World Rank: 7)
    08. Moscow 5 (World Rank: 8)
    09. LGD (World Rank: 9)
    10. EHOME (World Rank: 10)
    11. OK.Nirvana.cn (World Rank: 11)
    12. Mineski.Infinity (World Rank: 16)
    13. Scythe.SG (World Rank: 25)
    14. StarsBoba (World Rank: 35)
    15. MUFC (World Rank: 82)
    16. MiTH-Trust (World Rank: 686)




    Selection criteria:
    For European Based teams:
    Top 6 EU teams

    For Chinese teams
    Top 5 CN teams

    For SEA teams
    One representative each for the countries with the most number of DotA players
    (PH, SG, MY, VN, TH)

    Links:
    http://www.dota2.com/
    http://blog.dota2.com
    http://playdota.com
    Comments 6 Comments
    1. Sonic's Avatar
      Sonic - August 13th, 2011
      Any players teams from INDIA ??
    1. CvP's Avatar
      CvP - August 14th, 2011
      No teams from south asia.
    1. Raa's Avatar
      Raa - August 24th, 2011
      Quote Originally Posted by CvP View Post
      No teams from south asia.
      cvp how to post artical in this forum? Back dated articles dia front page full thake. Ae dota2 tournament shesh 3 days ago. Tar result ar winner o announced hoe gese but no updates.........Front page ta ki ektu updated thakle amader site ta valo manae na?
    1. CvP's Avatar
      CvP - August 24th, 2011
      Quote Originally Posted by Raa View Post
      cvp how to post artical in this forum? Back dated articles dia front page full thake. Ae dota2 tournament shesh 3 days ago. Tar result ar winner o announced hoe gese but no updates.........Front page ta ki ektu updated thakle amader site ta valo manae na?
      Well, yes. If you wanna post one, you can just to to HOME > Creat Article > Go (below header, top right).
    1. Raa's Avatar
      Raa - August 25th, 2011
      Quote Originally Posted by CvP View Post
      Well, yes. If you wanna post one, you can just to to HOME > Creat Article > Go (below header, top right).
      yes i know upto that but after giving title & my content what should i do? I see apply, save, cancle and other buttons. after i press apply button it previews the article but a note is there that not published.
    1. CvP's Avatar
      CvP - August 26th, 2011
      once you save it, if it does not get published, send a pm to @Wintereise .
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