VALVE ANNOUNCES "THE INTERNATIONAL"
Dota 2 Championships: First Public Showing at Gamescom

The tournament website is now live at DOTA2.COM. You can use it to see the schedule for upcoming games, view the current live match or to watch replays of previous games. The Broadcasts are available in four languages (Chinese, Russian, German, and English) as well as in an auto-director camera mode.

Watch Dota2 Gamescom Trailer - Germany > VIEW IT HERE <

August 1, 2011 — Valve today announced The International. This tournament will be the first time Dota 2 is shown in public, and will take place August 17th -21st at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.

The International features the 16 best Dota teams in the world competing in the Dota 2 Championships through a group stage, double elimination playoff format over the course of Cologne's five-day trade show.

The tournament will be broadcast in four languages (Chinese, German, Russian, and English) free of charge. The winning team will receive $1 million.

“The International is the first public Dota 2 event and will give the tens of millions of gamers playing Dota around the world their first look at the new game,” said Gabe Newell, president and founder of Valve. “I have had the good fortune to watch the competitors as they prepare for the tournament, and the level of play is extraordinary.”

In addition to the cash prizes awarded by Valve, NVidia is providing all the hardware for the event.
The prize distribution for the top 8 teams is as follows:

1st place: $1,000,000 USD
2nd place: $250,000 USD
3rd place: $150,000 USD
4th place: $80,000 USD
5th place: $35,000 USD
6th place: $35,000 USD
7th place: $25,000 USD
8th place: $25,000 USD

The roster of teams in the tournament has been updated and is available on the > TEAMS PAGE <

The sixteen teams are split up into four groups of four, and each team plays one game against everyone in their group. The results of the group stage will populate the winners and losers bracket. The two teams in each group with the best won/loss record in the group stage advance to the winners bracket. The two teams with the worst won/loss record in the group stage are placed in the losers bracket. Ties at the conclusion of the group stage will be broken by total match time for their wins (lower is better).
View the Group Stage schedule here!


Dota 2 will be available for the PC and Mac later this year. Get your DOTA2 beta key!
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This post has been edited by STEAMboi: Aug 17 2011, 11:24 AM

Shock and awe indeed. Get the game started! Good luck MUFC

Malaysia Boleh!

All the best MUFC!

Gonna be a tough competition.

can i know which team was being invited to this prestigeous tourney??

Click on the official website links in the OP.

Thank you all for the wishes, we will definitely do our best.

hopefully it will be release in steam and played in steam for MY but not via flying spaghetti monster according to some rumors stating that flying spaghetti monster going to be the distributor for SEA.

Dota 2 is under Valve and e-Club is the current distro for this region.

First 4 LIVE Streaming Matches is 4pm today. Don't Miss it!!

how to watch it online..can someone guide me?

http://dota2.com/tournaments/international/

DCed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So sad. Lag like wtf lol

wah against ok.nv.int ....very hard very hard...pajkatt > all

nice tp