In these years around, e-Sports have been widely accepted worldwide and have filled with hype and excitement. Of course, when we talk about e-Sports, there's also a prize pool to be said around and they are massively huge especially in the year 2019.

Dota 2 has a huge community worldwide and it is continually growing each day and not to mention the prize pool of the International 2019 coming this August. It is said to have exceeded the $30,000,000 mark and with weeks to spare, it does not seem that the prize pool will stop growing.

The prize pool starts at $1,600,000 + 25% of sales which include treasures and the battle pass itself and this has brought up the prize pool up to a whopping $30,046,535 as of writing and there are several weeks to go before the biggest event of Dota 2 even starts.

Compared to the previous year, the prize pool was only $25,532,177 in which team OG managed to dominantly fight their way through and carry home $11,000,000 for winning TI8.

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The International 9

Unlike the previous years where Valve held the tournament in America, this year will be at a completely different place. They decided to bring the tournament to the country where Dota 2 is the most famous game there and that is Shanghai, China at the Mercedez Benz Arena. All the 18 teams will participate in this event (Team Secret, Virtus Pro, Evil Geniuses, Vici Gaming, Fnatic, PSG.LGD, Team Liquid, NiP, OG, Keen Gaming, TNC Predator, Alliance, Mineski, Na'Vi, Infamous, RNG, Chaos and Forward Gaming) and have a chance to bring back the aegis of immortal.

You guys must remember the last Shanghai Major where chaos has taken place and the event was a catastrophe. Will this unfortunate event repeat itself, who knows. This event will be the most exciting and hyped tournament so far in 2019 and it will definitely be the tournament every e-Sport player looks forward to.