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SINGAPORE – Singapore is set to welcome the world’s top 16 Dota 2 teams for the first time next June, with the teams to play for a prize pool of US$1 million (S$1.36 million) at a critical juncture of their season.
Announced on Wednesday (Dec 18), the first Dota 2 Singapore Major will be organised by One Esports with the support of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and e-sports company PGL.
Dota 2 is a five-on-five multiplayer online battle arena game and one of the most popular and lucrative e-sports titles in the world, averaging about 400,000 monthly players globally. Of the 40 top-earning e-sports professionals to date, only one is not a Dota 2 player.
One Esports is the e-sports arm of Singapore-based mixed martial arts organisation One Championship. It held its first e-sports event in Japan in October.
The June 20-28 Singapore Major will be the last of five major tournaments on the 2020 Dota 2 professional circuit that offer qualifying points to e-sports’ richest tournament – The International (TI).
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