Started by Tomás Rinaldi (@tomas_rinaldi) ·
Dota 2's prize pools were crowdfunded by cosmetics
Valve put 25% of battle pass sales into the prize pool, so players basically crowdfunded the biggest prizes in esports. The 2021 edition hit around $40 million. Then Valve dropped the battle pass and the pool shrank to a small fraction of that.
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How I got here
- Started with
- “the international prize pool history battle pass”
- Ended at
- The International 2021
The Trail
- “the international prize pool history battle pass” (google.com)
- The International (esports) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Dota 2 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Battle pass (en.wikipedia.org)
- The International 2021 (en.wikipedia.org)
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