Nearly 1.75 million viewers tuned in to The International in 2022 to watch UK-based team, Tundra Esports, take home the big prize. With such big sums at stake, it is no surprise that viewers watch in their millions to find out who will come out on top. The prize pool for the eleventh edition of The International was 18.93 million U.S.

The biggest DOTA 2 tournament is the The International championship, which most recently took place in Singapore in October 2022. The cumulative DOTA 2 tournament prize pool worldwide in 2022 stood at a cool 32 million U.S. DOTA 2 was the third most played game on Steam in 2022, beaten only by CS:GO and Lost Ark in terms of peak number of concurrent players and hourly average number of players.īig money to be won at DOTA 2 tournamentsĪs with a lot of the most popular shooter games on PC and console, there is serious money to be won by players who are at the top of their game in DOTA 2. With the number of monthly active users of DOTA 2 regularly exceeding 7.6 million, the game is one of the most popular on offer on the Steam platform.

In the last measured month, February 2023, the game peaked at over 680 thousand concurrent players.

Published by Valve Corporation, which is also the creator of the gaming platform Steam, DOTA 2 reached its record high peak concurrent player number in March 2016 at nearly 1.29 million gamers playing at the same time. First released in July 2013, DOTA 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena that was created as a sequel to Defense of the Ancients (DotA).

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