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Dota 2 is renowned for its humongous prize pool and rocked an annual prize pool of about 47 million dollars in 2019. The majority of this prize pool comes from The International. The International, often abbreviated as TI is an annual Dota 2 tournament organized by Valve which accounted for a whopping 34 million dollars prize pool last year. Needless to say, it is the biggest esports tournament in the world in terms of the prize pool. 

A huge part of this prize pool comes from the players of the game since the tournament is primarily crowdfunded. TI9 started with a base prize pool of 1.6 million dollars by Valve and the rest was made up of 25 percent of all Battle Pass sales, which was nearly 33 million dollars.

Due to the enormous hype around this tournament, Dota fans from across the world wait eagerly for an entire year for TI to happen. However, due to the unfortunate pandemic that is currently wreaking havoc worldwide, it isn’t very likely that we’re gonna see TI10 happening this year. Some Redditors anticipated this, and instead of getting upset over it they want to do something for the betterment of the world.

One such Redditor is u/Ipug21, who came up with the idea of a “Covid-19-Relief-Compendium”. As he mentions in his Reddit thread, usually 25% of all battle pass sales directly go to the International prize pool, but he believes an additional 25% of this share could be given to a Covid-19 relief effort. Since the tournament would be held online, it’d also spare Valve the expenses of venue, lighting and many other stuff making the additional 25% donation seem much more reasonable.

If Valve decides to go through with this idea, it will potentially be a historic event. During the economic crisis the countries are going through, a share of this enormous prize pool would certainly go a long way.

u/Ipug21 in his post also predicts the headlines they’d make, “Nerds raise $30 Million for COVID-19 relief, Dota-2 proclaimed the national eSports for 30 countries“.

Some people are claiming in the comments that this idea is absurd since the International will likely be delayed instead of being cancelled. While we do wish for the International to happen as soon as possible, a charity event on a grand scale like this sounds truly historic.

Andreas Franck “Cr1t-” Nielsen is undoubtedly one of the greatest support players to ever lay hands on DOTA 2, and he keeps on proving why. The position 4 support from Evil Geniuses was streaming a game of Dota on Twitch when he demonstrated a beautiful play coming from his Rhasta, the shadow shaman.

Dota 2 is a game that’s renowned for its complex mechanics and an unbelievably high skill ceiling, and by seeing this 23 year old Danish pro in action we can certainly get an idea of exactly how high the ceiling can be.

Seven minutes into the game, Cr1t was trying to help out his Dragon Knight in middle by placing a ward at the top radiant jungle. The newly placed ward immediately detected an enemy Rubick walking towards middle but Cr1t, instead of running away calmly hid beside a tree, abusing the fog of war to escape the enemy’s vision. Simultaneously, he spotted the enemy midlaner, an Ember Spirit trying to take a stack of jungle creeps downhill. He still didn’t lose his calm and waited patiently just above the stairs so the Ember Spirit wouldn’t see him. Upon seeing the right opportunity, Cr1t proceeded slowly and hexed his foe, catching him completely off guard and finishing him in a single hit.

Solo killing the enemy midlaner as a support is no small task, but Cr1t made it seem easy as he walked away without a scratch after securing his team a huge networth advantage.

Cr1t is currently sitting just above 10k solo MMR and is ranked at immortal #1. The Twitch clip is currently rocking with almost ten thousand views as we can’t get enough of the brilliance of this man and his firm grasp on the mechanics of this beautiful game.