{"id":57146,"date":"2013-08-12T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T08:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=57146"},"modified":"2013-08-12T10:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T08:22:22","slug":"dota-2-team-wins-over-r13-7-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/57146-dota-2-team-wins-over-r13-7-million","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 team wins over R13.7 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, the Dota 2 International tournament took place and the world\u2019s best Dota 2 teams went head-to-head to see who had the mettle to take home prizes worth more than $2.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams which battled to the final were the Na\u2019Vi and Alliance &#8211; and it couldn\u2019t have been a tighter call to make between the two.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first match saw Alliance dominate the Na\u2019Vi, after the Na\u2019Vi took a risky move that didn\u2019t execute as planned;<\/li>\n<li>The second match saw the Na\u2019Vi bounce back to level the score sheet 1-1;<\/li>\n<li>The third match featured a good start for the Na\u2019Vi, giving them the advantage that took them 2-1 on the scoreboard;<\/li>\n<li>The fourth game was a make or break for Alliance, who dominated throughout the match and got themselves back in the running.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the first time in the history of The International, the final went to five games with the winner of the fifth match grabbing the win.<\/p>\n<p>Alliance were able to come out on top from a titanic battle where either team could\u2019ve toppled, but it was Alliance who held strongest.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Alliance on the win of over $1.4 million, with second place coming away with approximately $619,000 and third roughly $281,000.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57148\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dota-2-the-International-winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57148\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57148\" alt=\"Dota 2 the International winners\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Dota-2-the-International-winners.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dota 2 the International winners &#8211; Alliance<\/p><\/div>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Dota 2\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.dota2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dota 2 blog<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Dota 2 news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56705-clan-owner-charged-in-global-bank-hacking-scheme.html\">Clan owner charged in global bank hacking scheme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56638-new-sa-dota-2-server-added.html\">New SA Dota 2 server added<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56259-dota-2-finally-gets-linux-and-mac-support.html\">Dota 2 finally gets Linux and Mac support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56150-dota-2-launches-on-steam.html\">Dota 2 launches on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International has come to an end, and a victor has been crowned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":57147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,10963,2218,6581,6584,6575,6582,697],"class_list":["post-57146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-alliance","tag-dota-2","tag-dota-2-the-international","tag-navi","tag-source","tag-the-international","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57150,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57146\/revisions\/57150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}