{"id":64569,"date":"2014-05-16T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64569"},"modified":"2014-05-16T14:22:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T12:22:45","slug":"dota-2-the-international-prize-pool-reaches-r53500590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/64569-dota-2-the-international-prize-pool-reaches-r53500590","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 The International prize pool reaches R53,500,590"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dota 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64267-dota-2-international-prize-money-reaches-new-highs.html\">The International&#8217;s prize pool broke records<\/a> earlier in the week when it reached $2.9 million, but that has not stopped fans of the game from continuing to hand over money to Valve.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publication, the prize pool for the 2014 edition of The International had reached $5.18 million (R53,500,590). The prize pool has been primarily funded through the sale of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dota2.com\/store\/itemdetails\/15762?r=d1\" target=\"_blank\">Compendium<\/a>, which lets fans of the MOBA keep up to date with the latest happenings from the tournament, and collect various rewards and player cards.<\/p>\n<p>Dota 2 The International takes place at the Key Arena in Seattle, USA, from 18 \u2013 21 July 2014. The tickets for the event were <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63098-dota-2-international-tickets-sell-out-in-under-an-hour.html\">sold out in an under an hour<\/a> at the beginning of last month.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who want to spice things up, you can now <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64571-bet-on-dota-2-matches-in-south-africa.html\">place real-money bets on The International<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64467-stasis-progress-update-on-sa-made-horror-adventure.html\">Stasis: progress update on SA-made horror adventure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64381-north-koreas-leader-gets-his-own-video-game.html\">North Korea\u2019s leader gets his own video game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64371-humble-launches-daily-gaming-bundles.html\">Humble launches daily gaming bundles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dota 2 fans continue to bolster the already bulging prize purse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":64269,"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":[31,2218,6581,10609],"class_list":["post-64569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-dota-2","tag-dota-2-the-international","tag-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64569","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}