The biggest Dota 2 tournament on the planet – The International 2022 will be held in Singapore

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The biggest annual Dota 2 tournament of Valve will take place in October at Singapore. Valve confirmed the location a few days ago through a series of photos posted to the game’s official Twitter account. And now, the publisher has officially announced the time and location of the own Esports tournament prize value largest on the planet.

The International is the biggest tournament in the series Major tournament by Valve and is the pinnacle of the series’ e-sports events MOBA. The International 2021 takes place in Bucharest, where TSpirit won the championship and reached a record total prize pool of more than 40 million USD. The International was also the second most watched eSports event last year after the League of Legends world finals with 107.23 million watch hours accumulated.
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The total prize pool for TI teams has been on an upward trend since the third tournament, which took place in 2013, when Valve started fundraising through ‘TI battle pass’ sales. A certain percentage of the ‘TI battle pass’ sales are included in the rewards pool. This crowdfunding method has kept TI at the top of the list of top prize-winning e-sports tournaments for six years in a row.

The Stockholm Major ended last weekend and OG – the TI champion for 2 years in a row – claimed the $200,000 USD prize pool after beating TSM in the final 3-1.​