Jump to content

The International 2022

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The International 2022
Tournament information
SportDota 2
LocationSingapore
DatesOctober 15–30, 2022
AdministratorValve
Tournament
format(s)
Venue(s)
Participants20 teams
PurseUS$18,865,624
Final positions
ChampionsTundra Esports
1st runner-upTeam Secret
2nd runner-upTeam Liquid

The International 2022 (also known as TI 11 and TI 2022) was the 11th iteration of The International, an annual Dota 2 world championship esports tournament hosted by Valve, the game's developer. The tournament followed the Dota 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 in Singapore in October 2022 and was the first International where the main event was hosted at more than one venue, as the playoffs took place at Suntec Singapore followed by the grand finals at Singapore Indoor Stadium. As with every International from 2013 onwards, the prize pool was crowdfunded by the Dota 2 community via its battle pass feature with the total reaching US$19 million, the smallest prize pool for an International since 2015. The finals were held between Team Secret and Tundra Esports, with the latter winning.[1]

Background

[edit]

Dota 2 is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by Valve. In it, two teams of five players compete by selecting characters known as "heroes", each with a variety of innate skills 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 the fog 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 character respawns 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 corresponding battle pass for Dota 2 was released in 2022, allowing the prize pool to be crowdfunded 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 since The 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]

Teams

[edit]
Direct invitation (DPC)
Regional qualifier winners
Last chance qualifier winners

Group stage

[edit]
Group A
Pos Team W L
1 Evil Geniuses 14 4 Advanced to the upper bracket
2 Team Liquid 13 5
3 PSG.LGD 12 6
4 OG 10 8
5 Hokori 9 9 Advanced to the lower bracket
6 Royal Never Give Up 9 9
7 Gaimin Gladiators 8 10
8 Boom Esports 5 13
9 Soniqs 5 13 Eliminated
10 BetBoom Team 5 13
Source: [6]
Group B
Pos Team W L
1 Tundra Esports 14 4 Advanced to the upper bracket
2 Team Secret 13 5
3 Thunder Awaken 10 8
4 Team Aster 10 8
5 Fnatic 9 9 Advanced to the lower bracket
6 Team Spirit 9 9
7 Beastcoast 8 10
8 Entity 6 12
9 Talon Esports 6 12 Eliminated
10 TSM 5 13
Source: [7]

Tier breakers

[edit]
Group A
Pos Team W L
1 Boom Esports 2 0 Advanced to the lower bracket
2 Soniqs 1 1 Eliminated
3 BetBoom Team 0 2
Source: [6]
Group B
Pos Team W L
1 Entity 1 0 Advanced to the lower bracket
2 Talon Esports 0 1 Eliminated
Source: [7]

Main event

[edit]
Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalGrand Finals
Evil Geniuses0
Thunder Awaken2
Thunder Awaken0
Team Secret2
Team Secret2
PSG.LGD0
Team Secret1
Tundra Esports2
Tundra Esports2
OG0
Tundra Esports2
Team Aster0
Team Aster2
Team Liquid0
Tundra Esports3
Team Secret0
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower round 4Lower round 5Lower final
Evil Geniuses0
Team Aster2
Hokori0Beastcoast2
Beastcoast1PSG.LGD0
Beastcoast1
PSG.LGD2Team Secret2
PSG.LGD2
Team Aster1Team Liquid1
Team Spirit0Boom Esports0
Team Liquid2
Boom Esports1
OG2
Thunder Awaken1
Fnatic0Gaimin Gladiators0
OG0Team Liquid2
Gaimin Gladiators1
Team Liquid2
Team Liquid2
Royal Never Give Up0Entity1
Entity1

Winnings

[edit]

Note: Prizes are in USD[8]

Place Team Prize money
1st
Tundra Esports
 $8,518,800
2nd
Team Secret
 $2,461,000
3rd
Team Liquid
 $1,703,800
4th
Team Aster
 $1,135,800
5th–6th
PSG.LGD
 $662,600
Thunder Awaken
7th–8th
Beastcoast
 $473,300
OG
9th–12th
Evil Geniuses
 $378,600
Boom Esports
Gaimin Gladiators
Entity
13th–16th
Hokori
 $284,000
Team Spirit
Fnatic
Royal Never Give Up
17th–20th
Soniqs
 $47,300
Talon Esports
BetBoom Team
TSM

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Tundra Esports sweep Team Secret 3-0 to become champions of The International 11". Yahoo Esports SEA. 2022-10-30.
  2. ^ a b Gies, Arthur (August 2, 2017). "The Normal Person's Guide to Watching Competitive Dota 2 (2017 Edition)". Polygon. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  3. ^ Kim, Ben (July 9, 2013). "A comprehensive comparison of Dota 2 and League of Legends". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  4. ^ Minotti, Mike (16 October 2014). "The dangers of crowdfunding those gigantic e-sports prize pools". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on October 10, 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  5. ^ Michael, Cale (4 November 2022). "The International 2022 prize pool didn't even hit $19 million, snaps historical 10-year streak". Dot Esports.
  6. ^ a b "The International 2022 – Group A". Valve Corporation. Archived from the original on October 31, 2022. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
  7. ^ a b "The International 2022 – Group B". Valve Corporation. Archived from the original on October 31, 2022. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
  8. ^ "TI11 Results". dota2.com. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_International_2022&oldid=1222415887"