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Gaming for the gold: Na'vi take the first International Dota 2 Championships title

by Jessica Conditt on Aug 21st 2011 7:30PM

Pay homage to the kings of the International Dota 2 Championships, Na'vi! These six Ukrainian studs won $1 million over the five-day tournament held at Gamescom, followed by China's Ehome, who landed in second place. The top eight teams competed bravely, so show some respect as follows:

1. Na'vi - $1 million
2. Ehome - $250,000
3. Scythe.SG - $150,000
4. MYM - $80,000
5. (tied) M5, iG - $35,000 each
7. (tied) OK.Nirvana.int, Mith-Trust - $25,000 each

Handing out over $1.5 million to the people who love your game enough to make it a career seems like a wonderful advertising strategy from Valve. Maybe eventually it'll be altered to include people who love Valve's games but have day jobs too. Maybe.

[Thanks, Aibbi!]

Source: The International Dota 2 Championships

Tags: cash-money, championships, dota-2, EHOME, gamescom-2011, navi, pc, the-international, valve

Reader Comments (26)

Na'vi.. Avatar sucks.

@Castiel one of the most overrated movies ever.

@Castiel

I know right, Give us the old dashboard back MS

@Castiel
It was cliche, but...uh... SPARKLES! COLORS! 3-D! Oooo!

HEY! LISTEN!

I just won 1 million dollars!

NERDS.

....Wealthy nerds.

Cool! Now they can get that guy on the right those grown hormones he's supposed to be on.

GROWTH

damn it ruined a good joke

NEWSFLASH: their 'day job' pays $166K+ each. i doubt your salary is as generous.

@fid

They weren't saying that the contestants don't have jobs, ass.

They were saying that those of us with full time jobs can't always find the time to play in online game tournaments. At least not, each event.

@fid
Newsflash: you realize they aren't getting the full million since its not income, its a prize (gift) and undoubtedly will taxed to all hell. Also, I'm sure 'stiq meant they wish people with less time to dedicate to gaming could compete for that kinda prize.

@kevin949 people without enough time arent good enough so it doesnt really matter.

@fid

Well some of the other contestants got paid $0. So you could figure out the average salary of a professional DOTA player would probably be around $5.39.

@fid
Newsflash: I've always wanted to do that.

@FriedConsole everyone was flown there on Valve and put in a hotel though.

@kevin949 But they still pulled down a bundle of cash for 5 days of playing a video game.

ONE MILLION DOLLARS

@wqerty
http://gotgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/dr-evil.jpg

Gratz Na'Vi. I saw one of their early matches though, they played with SKILL. It was kind of a given they'd win...

In the ranking list shown here i wanna know what happened to 6th? Here it goes 1 2 3 4 5 7 lol

@Shameful Sinner

2 teams placed 5th, which eliminates 6th, and 2 teams placed 7th, which eliminates 8th:

1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
5th
7th
7th

@tylerh1701

Or they could have been smart and made it 1 2 3 4 5 5 6 6

@Shameful Sinner
No, that would have just been stupid

@bjbklisdfs9 TeAm NaVi ......... 1,000,000 dollar.

Dear friend, they have more game than the mother****** Olympics.
Please call them and you can get rush tactics and good strategy
24hr Skype
Warm blue Alien people regards
NaVi

I'm just glad a Chinese team didn't win, you know, since its supposedly "their" game and all.

"studs"

Sarcasm?

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