Approaching increasingly of its value in 2015 the award of The International 6 DOTA 2 surpassed the $ 17 million mark.
According to the site DOTA 2 Prize Pool Tracker, the $ 1.6 million based award had $ 15.4 million added to it, increasing incredible 965.32%. It is worth noting that the total prize had a great "boost" in the last 10 days due to the promotion of Pass Battle (25% of the item sales, including the Compendium, and he points to go to the prize pool).
Thus, the community DOTA 2 has about a month to catch up and surpass the previous prize of US $ 18,429,613. The task is not difficult, especially with the imminent release of Treasury Immortal III, but after the site data allow to say that a month of sales and the launch of only one additional item to add up package "only" $ 3 million to the current premium. In other words, the total prize of The International 6 should be around $ 20 million.
The The International 6 takes place in Seattle, USA, 3-13 of August with 16 teams. Before the main matches, four teams will contest the wildcard the last two waves of the event