Winning The International is the ultimate dream of many Dota 2<\/em> fans, regardless of their skill level. Fans generally divide the prize money by five to guesstimate players\u2019 earnings from the event, but Sneyking recently shared that the calculations had more than five variables after a viewer asked how much he received from winning TI11 with Tundra Esports<\/a> on stream.<\/p>
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Though Sneyking didn\u2019t disclose how the TI pie was cut between all parties involved, community members came up with assumptions<\/a> of how much the players may have gone home with after winning the most prestigious Dota 2<\/em> event of each year.<\/p>
This isn’t the first time a TI-winner shed light on the math of lifting the Aegis, however. Two years after winning TI3, Alliance\u2019s AdmiralBulldog mentioned on a stream<\/a> that he only made about $100,000 after organization cuts and Swedish taxes out of Alliance’s $1.4 million TI3 cheque.<\/p>
While there will always be additional costs and taxes to pay after winning TI, Tundra also won one of the least lucrative iterations of the event in recent years<\/a>. Ever since TI4 in 2014, the event\u2019s prize pool has been increasing substantially every year, topping at $40 million in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>
In a surprising turn of events, Valve followed a different route with the battle pass while rolling out mediocre content<\/a> that made fans think twice before purchasing the battle pass. Considering it was also released only a month before the tournament, there was so little time to fund TI11 compared to previous years, hence its lower prize pool of $18 million.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
