{"id":93897,"date":"2016-06-14T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T09:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93897"},"modified":"2016-06-14T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T09:08:04","slug":"dota-2s-international-prize-money-is-absolutely-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93897-dota-2s-international-prize-money-is-absolutely-insane","title":{"rendered":"Dota 2&#8217;s International prize money is absolutely insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ui green header\">The amount of money up for grabs at this years &#8220;The International event&#8221; is astronomical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ui green header\">The current prize pool sits at $10,381,445 (R156,606,174.11) at the time of writing, with that figure increasing daily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ui green header\">This is calculated by adding 25% of all Battle Pass purchases, as well as miscellaneous\u00a0sales related to the Battle Pass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ui green header\">You can monitor the current prize pool and how it compares to previous years&#8217; totals <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dota2.prizetrac.kr\/international2016\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ui green header\">The International 2016 is set to take place from<strong> 8 &#8211; 13 August 2016<\/strong> at the KeyArena in Seattle, Washington, where teams will compete for what could end up being the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esportsearnings.com\/tournaments\" target=\"_blank\">biggest <\/a><\/strong>eSports prize in history.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Coolest games you can play this week \u2013 leaps and logic\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93887-coolest-games-you-can-play-this-week-leaps-and-logic.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Coolest games you can play this week \u2013 leaps and logic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Check if your internet is fast enough to stream Netflix\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/93779-check-if-your-internet-is-fast-enough-to-stream-netflix.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Check if your internet is fast enough to stream Netflix<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 versus GTX 980 Ti \u2013 pricing and performance\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93443-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-versus-980-ti-pricing-and-performance.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 versus GTX 980 Ti \u2013 pricing and performance<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of money up for grabs at this years &#8220;The International event&#8221; is astronomical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":93899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[637,10698,12463,85,697],"class_list":["post-93897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-dota","tag-money","tag-prize-pool","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93897","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93939,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93897\/revisions\/93939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}