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TankSchmidt, on 13 August 2017 - 01:47 AM, said: Meanwhile in Dota2, the biggest event "The International" finished with Team Liquid winning the grand finals. Very few key points, just for you to compare that with WoT "esports" - daily peak of Dota2 players worldwide is 800k-ish, so certainly within what WoT has got - which is literally the only similarity between those two. - 18 teams competed at the tournament - Valve (the developer of Dota2) sponsors 1,2 million USD prize pool - Additional prize money is added to the pool by selling a so-called "battle pass" (Dota2 is generally F2P). In WoT terms this could best be described as a collection of camos and missions which will upon completion unlock reserves, free xp, gold or anything you like. Anyways, 25% of the price of such battle pass is added to the prize pool - the pass costing 10EUR-ish. - With that addition, the overall prize pool jumped to unbelieveable 24 million, 10 million for the winning team (five players). Just qualifying for the tournament already guarantees 60k prize money. - Nearly 400k people were watching the English cast on twitch, additionally 250k the Russian stream and >100k watched from inside the Dota2 game (which has a spectator functionality). I would guess that even during very early stages of this over a week long tournament there was always >300k combined viewers, probably even over 500k for 90% of the time.