Betting on eSports: dota2
Most popular DotA 2 tournaments
The main events for "dotters" (as well as for spectators and betters) are the largest international competitions. The most significant of them are:
The International is the largest annual tournament that Valve has been holding since 2011. In 2015, his prize fund exceeded sixteen million dollars.
ESL One - an international match with a prize fund of a quarter of a million dollars.
The Major is a series of tournaments, which also host Valve. The competition was first held in Frankfurt (November 2015), and the next tournament in March 2016 will be hosted by Shanghai. Participants will compete for over three million US dollars.
ProDotA Cup - international competitions with a prize fund of tens of thousands of dollars. It is regularly held in different parts of the world.
WePlay League - a major international tournament, in a piggy bank this year (in the third season) was more than two hundred thousand dollars.
But this is far from all competitions, which it is desirable to follow the betters. If necessary, interesting matches, which can be put, they will find almost daily.
THE LARGEST TOURNAMENT IN CYBERSPORT
Since its launch in 2011, Dota 2 is one of the major e-sports disciplines. Thanks to the use of crowdfunding, it can boast the largest prize funds in e-sports. The developer of the game, the company Valve, is the organizer of the annual championship The International, at which the best players from around the world compete for multi-million prize. The prize fund The International 2016 has exceeded $ 20,000,000, and the stream of the final match between NaVi and Alliance has gathered the audience of 4,600,000 spectators.
TOURNAMENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD
Starting in 2015, Valve began sponsoring smaller tournaments with a fixed prize pool, which are held every season. They got the name The Majors. Annually, there will be three major tournaments, each in a different region, with the culmination of the cybersport season at the annual The International. In addition to the tournaments organized by Valve, there are many tournaments from third-party organizers, including: ASUS ROG DreamLeague, The Summit, SL i-League StarSeries, ESL One, Dota Pit League and many others. Every month hundreds of professional matches are played on Dota 2, and their streams make up to 50% of the total number of cybersport content in the world.
The game of this scale could not but attract the attention of the fans of rates. The biggest scandal in kiesport is directly related to the rates on Dota 2 when the team-participant of the competition has put on his defeat to earn on the stakes. They won the bet then, but got disqualified.