Valve's The International is the perfect barometer to show the growth of the game, and with the arrival of 6.84 just before the release of the Compendiums, interest in the game has been renewed ahead of the summer extravaganza set for early August.
Last year TI4 broke all the records in eSports tournament history, with the prize pool a staggering $11 million dollars, with over $5 million of it going to the victors
Newbee.Now it was revealed that the owner of the Chinese side has leveled up his TI5 Compendium to level 10010, which according to Reddit user /u/comphys, would cost roughly $4177 to achieve. With the same amount of money you could afford almost 42 tickets to TI5, or if you preferred to stay at home buy almost 420 level 1 Compendiums.
Image taken from RedditAfter less than a week gone by and the prize pool is already over 5 million dollars, and with Compendium goals reaching up to 15 million, will this year's prize pool beat last year's making it the biggest tournament in the history of DotA and all of eSports?
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