{"id":64725,"date":"2014-05-21T10:53:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T08:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64725"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T08:56:03","slug":"dota-2-prize-pool-gets-new-stretch-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/64725-dota-2-prize-pool-gets-new-stretch-goals","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2 The International prize pool gets new stretch goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the prize pool for Dota 2 The International <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64701-dota-2-the-international-2014-prize-pool-breaks-r62-million.html\">breaking the R62 million<\/a> ($6 million) mark, Valve has announced a new set of stretch goals as money continues to pour in.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dota2.com\/international\/compendium\/\" target=\"_blank\">stretch goals<\/a>\u00a0range from the $6.8 million mark, all the way up to $10 million (\u00b1R104.5 million).<\/p>\n<p>The upgrades are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daily Hero Challenge &#8211; earn Compendium points by winning games with your favourite hero: $6.8 million.<\/li>\n<li>Alternative Voice &#8211; vote for the hero you would like to receive new dialogue packs: $7.2 million.<\/li>\n<li>Favourite Hero Challenge &#8211; play with one of your least favourite heroes and receive a GPM\/XPM analysis tool: $7.6 million.<\/li>\n<li>Model Update Vote &#8211; vote for the hero you want to receive a reworked model: $8 million.<\/li>\n<li>Multi-Kill Banner &#8211; you will be able to customise your multi-kill banner: $8.4 million.<\/li>\n<li>Afterparty Broadcast &#8211; live broadcasting of the after party with special guest Darude: $8.8 million.<\/li>\n<li>New Upgrade Creeps &#8211; unlocks new models for your creeps: $9.2 million.<\/li>\n<li>A-Z Challenge Support &#8211; a new quest systems which allows you to earn rewards: $9.6 million.<\/li>\n<li>Victory Prediction Taunt &#8211; allows you to perform a voice taunt with your hero: $10 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Valve continues to raise money through the sale of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dota2.com\/store\/itemdetails\/15762?r=385\" target=\"_blank\">Compendium<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; $2.50 of its $10 price goes towards the prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>To put the prize money into a local perspective,we considered how there is <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/64697-dota-2-prize-money-trumps-sa-cricket-and-rugby.html\" target=\"_blank\">more money in Dota 2\u00a0than local rugby and cricket tournaments<\/a>.<\/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 at the beginning of last mont<\/a>h.<\/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\/64613-youtube-buying-twitch-for-r10-billion.html\">YouTube buying Twitch for R10 billion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64551-fight-and-ride-dinosaurs-in-the-stomping-land.html\">Fight and ride dinosaurs in The Stomping Land<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64529-steam-game-releases-in-2014-smash-records.html\">Steam game releases in 2014 smash records<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve are offering a stack of new upgrades if their prize pool targets are met<\/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":[31,2218,6581,12463],"class_list":["post-64725","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-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64725","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=64725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64729,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64725\/revisions\/64729"}],"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=64725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}