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Dota 2 championships: 3 finalists battle for biggest slice of $24 million prize pool

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The International Dota 2 Championships is like the Super Bowl of esports, and it wraps up today with three finalists fighting for the lion’s share of a record $24 million prize pool.

The Dota 2 event takes place starting at 10 am Saturday at the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington. The play begins in a semifinal between LFY and TeamLiquid. Following that match, the winner will face Newbee in the best of five Grand Finals.

So far this week, 16 teams battled each other in Valve’s multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game. The seventh annual event has a purse that is the largest in all of esports, as the pool is created by the fans themselves, as Valve sells virtual items that fans can purchase to boost the total. Last year’s pool was $20.7 million.

You can watch it on this link. The winner will get $10.7 million for first place. Second place will score $3.9 million, and the third place team will get $2.6 million.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.