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Like last year, the total prize pool of the biggest eSport tournament, The International, is increased through crowdfunding or sale of Compendium on the official site. Valve's stake in the prize pool this year will be about $600,000, and the remainder will be collected thanks to the sale of 1.3 million Compendium.

The world's largest Dota 2 tournament has ended this weekend, and win a prize of huge $1.4 million were taken by the Swedish e-sports team Team Alliance, who were by many the favorites of the tournament. In the final they met with Ukrainians from the team Na'vi, who will be coming home from Seattle with a prize of $632,000 for the second place.

Dota 2 tournament The International came to life for the third time and the best teams from around the world arrived at Valve's headquarters in Seattle. Among the clans that will clash in this tournament there arte Na'vi from Ukraine who were winners two years ago, last year's winner Invictus Gaming from China, and the Alliance of Sweden, who are known as this year's favorites.

Although it has been less than a week since The International has finished we have the first rumors about next year’s event.  After Dota 2 is launched another Valve game is supposed to be introduced and that is Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Since the very first version CS brought new content and maintained player interest while gaining tons of new ones even though some of that content was pretty bad (like vehicles in Beta 7.0) Valve managed to polish the product to feed gamers’ appetites. Today around half a million players are estimated to play regularly on more than 200,000 servers.