American Team Wins Dota 2 International, Takes Home $6.6 Million
The U.S. team Evil Geniuses won on Dota 2’s
biggest stage last night, earning a $6.6 million prize and becoming the
first American squad to win the International tournament.
Evil
Geniuses defeated the Chinese team CDEC, generally considered to be an
underdog, 3-1 in the best-of-five Grand Finals late Saturday night,
capping off a week of non-stop Dota 2. The prize pool for this
year’s International, hosted by Valve at the KeyArena Center in Seattle,
was a whopping $18 million. CDEC took home $2.8 million.
All five
players who competed for Evil Geniuses—Fear, PPD, Aui, Sumail, and
Universe—are now millionaires. Sumail’s story is particularly
fascinating—the 16-year-old Pakistani says that when he was growing up,
he sold his bike so he could play more Dota. Now he’s the youngest millionaire in eSports.
You can watch the entirety of the Grand Finals here:
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