There are going to be 2 3mil tournaments next year, in addition to TI, and over a dozen 100k+ tournaments. Plus, there are sponsorships and commercials with the players.
Just because the mainstream media doesn’t show support the game, doesn’t mean that the players are left without means.

I watched this, I’ve never installed Dota before or seen a match. I had no idea what was going on. It was freaking exciting as hell. I now have Dota installed and am doing bot matches to learn to play.

Valve funds a majority of the tournament through crowdfunding.

The fans. I got a compendium and probably spent $300 on upgrades to it so I could get free stuff. On top of that got an HTC vive so I could watch the matches in real time and VR. I know I'm not the most hard core valve/Dota2 fan either I saw a lot of people in VR watching too (you can see other viewers) plus all those…

Holy shit - this is just a straight forward informative post explaining the answer to an interesting question. Well done.

As a fairly experienced Tekken player, I couldn’t agree more about the skill spectrum. When I play online, there’s players far better than I am, people of moderate skill, new players who are just learning the ropes, people who only use 10-hits, and people with screen names like XXXDank420XXX who are there just to fuck…

There’s something with how the trailer is edited, which just falls flat with me. I much preferred the original trailer and the Celebration footage.

He was being polite...

What a fucking retarded comment

Great insight.

Two things.

First off, he claims he was sent to “Smash Hell” due to spamming attacks on the Duck Hunt character, then proceeds to complain about people spamming attacks once relegated to the troublemaker zone. That’s pretty damn hypocritical. He also complains that he’s told to “git good” when his internet was…

I feel the same way when I watch Cops.

That felt fucking great to watch, I’m not gonna lie.