The International 2022

Tournament information
Game	Dota 2
Location	Singapore
Dates	October 15–30, 2022
Administrator	Valve
Tournament formats	Group stage Round robin Main event Double elimination
Venues	Playoffs Suntec Singapore Grand Finals Singapore Indoor Stadium
Participants	20 teams
Purse	US$18,865,624
Final positions
Champions	Tundra Esports
1st runner-up	Team Secret
2nd runner-up	Team Liquid
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The International 2022 (also known asTI 11 andTI 2022) was the 11th iteration ofThe International, an annualDota 2world championshipesports tournament hosted byValve, the game's developer. The tournament followed theDota Pro Circuit (DPC), an annual series of tournaments awarding points to teams, with the top 12 earning invitations and a further eight earning them by a series of qualifying playoffs.

The tournament was held inSingapore in October 2022 and was the first International where the main event was hosted at more than one venue, as the playoffs took place atSuntec Singapore followed by the grand finals atSingapore Indoor Stadium. As with every International from2013 onwards, the prize pool wascrowdfunded by theDota 2 community via itsbattle pass feature with the total reachingUS$19 million, the smallest prize pool for an International since2015. The finals were held betweenTeam Secret and Tundra Esports, with the latter winning.^[1]

Dota 2 is a 2013multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed byValve. In it, two teams of five players compete by selecting characters known as "heroes", each with a variety of innateskills and abilities, and cooperate together to be the first to destroy the base of the other team, which ends the match. The game is played from a top-down perspective, and the player sees a segment of the game's map near their character as well as mini-map that shows their allies, with any enemies revealed outside thefog of war. The game's map has three roughly symmetric "lanes" between each base, with a number of defensive towers protecting each side. Periodically, the team's base spawns a group of weak CPU-controlled creatures, called "creeps", that march down each of the three lanes towards the opponents' base, fighting any enemy hero, creep, or structure they encounter. If a hero character is killed, that characterrespawns back at their base after a delay period, which gets progressively longer the farther into the match.^[2][3]

As with previous years of the tournament, a correspondingbattle pass forDota 2 was released in 2022, allowing the prize pool to becrowdfunded by players of the game. Those who purchase the pass both support the tournament and gain access to exclusive in-game rewards.^[4] A quarter of all revenue made by it up until November 2, 2022, was added directly towards the prize pool. It finalized at $18.9 million, making it the first International to not surpass the previous one's prize pool and the lowest sinceThe International 2015.^[5] At the time of event,Dota 2 featured 123 playable characters, called "heroes". Prior to each game in the tournament, a draft is held between the opposing team captains to select which heroes their teams use, going back and forth until each side has banned seven and selected five heroes. Once a hero is picked it can no longer be selected by any other player that match, so teams used the draft to strategically plan ahead and deny the opponents' heroes that may be good counters or would be able to take advantage of weaknesses to their current lineup.^[2]

The International 2022 was the first tournament in the series to see a decrease in prize money compared to last year. This was due to insufficiently large donations from Battle Pass sales. Alexander "JAM" Korotkov and some part of the game's community still consider the decline to be positive or at least inevitable:

I'll put it this way: the fact that prize money went down is normal. And it was bound to happen sooner or later. I understand Valve perfectly well - you make the tournament with the biggest prize pool (before the Riyadh Masters), that's why it was prestigious. You can endlessly release these Battle Passes, throw in billions oflootboxes to pump up that prize pool and so on, but the question is: ‘Why?’. Just to fill your pocket? I don't know, for me personally, on the contrary, it would be better if the prize pool was 10-15 million, and it would be a simple well-done large event, that's all. So that there wouldn't be these overbearing sums, just so every team that made only to the top-16 wouldn't leave with a few hundred thousand dollars. Well, that's crazy, to be honest. For me, at least, it shouldn't work that way.^[6]

Note: Prizes are in USD^[9]

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