Dota 2 The International 2014, which takes place from 18 – 21 July in Seattle, is a tournament most gamers are familiar with.<\/p>\n
Its fans enjoy the spectacle so much that the 10,000 tickets for the event sold out in under an hour after going on sale, and they helped raise over $10.7 million<\/a> (\u00b1R114 million) in prize money for the tournament through Compendium purchases.<\/p>\n Valve, having noted the popularity – and money – involved in its The International, is contemplating a Counter-Strike tournament in the same vein.<\/p>\n In a recent interview,\u00a0Valve\u2019s Erik Johnson suggested the company might try “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive\u00a0The International”.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t see any reason why a lot of the same things couldn’t be applied directly to Counter-Strike.\u00a0I don\u2019t know if it would be called The International, but the guys working on Counter-Strike made a lot of progress on supporting the professional community around that game,\u201d said\u00a0Johnson.<\/p>\n \u201cWe all work at the same company and share a lot of ideas, and given how successful this tournament [The International] has become, I don\u2019t see any reason why a lot of the same things couldn’t be applied directly to Counter-Strike.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson said that no official announcement could be made just yet, but Valve could not ignore the overwhelming response The International had generated this year.<\/p>\n Counter-Strike is one of the most popular games on Steam<\/a>, along with Dota 2, and is owned by millions of gamers.<\/p>\n