Team Spirit wins The International Dota 2 Championship for 2021.
Team Spirit wins The International Dota 2 Championship for 2021.
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Team Spirit takes home $18.2M as winner of The International Dota 2 Championship

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Team Spirit won The International Dota 2 Championship tournament, taking home $18.2 million of the record prize pool of more than $40 million.

Held in Bucharest, Romania, the International Dota 2 Championship concluded this weekend with Team Spirit taking the the top honor in the largest esports prize pool in history.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.