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For DotA fans, the most popular The International tournament is often considered the World Cup of eSports. Last year the International 2016 witnessed a Chinese team Wings Gaming take home the grand prize of US $9.14 million out of the total crowdfunded US $20.8million.

Every year Valve puts down US$1.6million as the base prize pool for the International, which is considered as the most prestigious Dota 2 competition in the world. But it’s the crowdfunding by the fans that boosts the major part of the prize pool. Purchasing an in-game item called as the Battle Pass raises the prize pool. Every 25% o the sale is added to the prize pool and players can also level up through purchase.

Purchasing an in-game item called as the Battle Pass raises the prize pool. Every 25% o the sale is added to the prize pool and players can also level up through purchase.

Within 2 hours of the Battle Pass going on sale, $ 2.3 million to the prize was added. And within 38 hours of the Battle Pass going on sale, just under $4 million has been the addition to the prize. At the time of writing the article the prizepool sits at USD $7,618,369. This is record setting pace, beating last year’s total at this point which was close to USD $6.5Million.

Sixteen of the best DotA 2 teams in the world will head out to Seattle Key arena to battle it out for the share of massive prize pool between August 7th and 12th.

Last year’s winners, Chinese team Wings Gaming, took home USD $9,139,002, while second place team Digital Chaos pocketed a still respectable USD $3,427,126.Even the teams that came last at the event last year still walked away with USD $103,852.

With the  current rate of at which the prizepool is growing if predictions are right The International 7 will have the largest prize pool ever distributed at a single eSports event. And provided the prize distribution ratio remains same the winning team will take home UDS $10M from single event.With still 3 months left for the total might be significantly higher by then.

The qualifiers for The International are due to kick off on June 21st. The online open qualifiers mean that anyone can sign up, and with Dota 2 being a free to play which means there is literally no restriction on who can participate as long as you have a team of 5 players.Winning the open qualifier would advance you into the regional qualifier, and winning that would nab you at the place at The International 7 and guaranteed prize money.

Nordic eSports Academy launches Finland’s first esports summer school with academic certification. This summer the Nordic eSports Academy, developed and operated by Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, takes a significant step towards bringing eSports into mainstream education.

The 4 week “Bootcamp” will run from 12.06 to 06.07 in Kajaani, culminating in a 3 day Counter Strike Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournament with a prize pool of 10,000€, one of the largest prize pools in Finland this year.

Gamers over the age of 16 years old who have ambitions to be professional eSports athletes have the opportunity to receive 4 weeks of lectures, workshops and hands-on coaching by top experts from Finland and international guests for a fee of 150€.

Initial confirmed coaches include Mia Stellberg, the leading sports psychologist who famously helped CS:GO team Astralis achieve peak performance, retired CS:GO professional Joona “Natu” Leppänen, retired
CS:GO professional Ville “cisu” Leppälä.

There is a lot of more interesting names in the boot camp, and you can see the full list from website. Registration for the 2017 NeSA Bootcamp is still open and we have some places still left. Registration will be closed as soon as those last places are taken.

Applications are being accepted from individuals and also existing teams who want to continue developing together. The Bootcamp will combine a series of lectures and workshops with hands-on expert coaching while students practice gameplay. Graduating students will walk away not only with new knowledge and improved skills, but also with 10 ECTS credits that can be used towards ongoing higher education.

Players of all eSports titles are invited to attend the 2017 Bootcamp, where lectures and workshops will cover a variety of topics related to Mental coaching, Physical coaching, the eSports Business world and player testing & metrics. The content has been designed to be applicable to all players, although hands-on coaching this year will focus on Counter Strike Global Offensive.

The 4 week Bootcamp reaches a climax on Friday 07.07 with the start of the 3-day NeSA 2017 CS:GO Tournament. Bootcamp students have the opportunity to register for pre-qualifying stages during the last week of training, with the best 8 teams going through to battle against 8 professional team for a slice of the 10,000€ prize pool. NeSa will start publishing professional teams in beginning of May.

Register for Bootcamp here http://nordicesports.academy/registration

Techno India’s EDGE17, the most famous east-India tech management fest came to a conclusion earlier this morning with CS: GO and DotA 2. Dare2Dream achieved victory at the grand finals of CSGO whereas, JMD Gaming conquered the DotA 2 championship.

East India’s most beloved fast EDGE17 came to a complete entertaining closure. Brutality and D2D, both the tournament favorites faced off each other in the grand finals in the wee hours of Monday.

The finale which although started with delays didn’t fail to impress the audiences in the early hours today. Our reporters at the venue informed us about the chilling atmosphere even at 6. A.M. after the hectic previous day.

Brutality lost to Dare2Dream in the first map Mirage, with a convincing scoreline of 16-5. The second map, though, ended up with scores leveling. Overpass had Brutality beating the dreamers with a close matchup of 12-16. The decider map, train, Dare2Dream left no stones to unturn as they beat the defending champions with a scoreline as strong as 16-3.

Team Brutality played with, Wuzz, PeXxer, RiX, Ankit, and Kundya, whereas Dare2Dream had HellRanger, Antidote, Shabby, SpawN and Blackhawk.

EDGE is India’s one of the most reputed college tournaments. Organizations, sponsors, keeps an eye on this season of the year where they wish to participate in the city of joy’s juncture actively. Every year, the prizes are way over as compared to the other college events all across the country. And Techno India has always been up to the mark to deliver and acknowledge the presence of the teams, media, and other distinguished attendees of the event.

Previous year Team Scorchers were victorious at EDGE 2K16 where they beat Team Brutality 2-1 in the grand finals.

Although we admit that the delays are annoying, the time spent during the rescheduling are very productive at this cultural-technological-management festival!