{"id":1116,"date":"2019-08-08T12:39:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/the-international-9-prize-pool-breakdown-revealed"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:39:58","slug":"the-international-9-prize-pool-breakdown-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/dota-2\/the-international-9-prize-pool-breakdown-revealed","title":{"rendered":"The International 9 prize pool breakdown revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p>Shortly after the Fortnite World Cup gave out the biggest prize pool in esports history with a total &#36;30million on the line, Battle Pass sales in Dota 2 will be breaking the record once again just a month later, with the current crowdfunding efforts up to &#36;32.89m with another week to go until the event starts on August 15.<\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><figure>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The International 2019 Prize Pool Distribution. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TI9?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TI9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WmAaYtSk8z\">pic.twitter.com\/WmAaYtSk8z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Wykrhm Reddy (@wykrhm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wykrhm\/status\/1159320312560807936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<\/figure><p><\/p><p>The prize pool breakdown is as follows:<\/p><p><\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n\t<li>1st &ndash; 45.5% (&#36;14,599,910+)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>2nd &ndash; 13% (&#36;4,171,403+)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>3rd &ndash; 9% (&#36;2,887,895+)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>4th &ndash; 6% (&#36;1,925,262+)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>5\/6th &ndash; 3.5% (&#36;1,123,070+)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>7\/8th &ndash; 2.5% (&#36;802,193+)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>9-12th &ndash; 2% (&#36;641,754+)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>13-16th &ndash; 1.5% (&#36;481,316+)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>17-18th &ndash; 0.25% (&#36;80,219+)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul><p><\/p><p>There&#8217;s been some debate in the Dota 2 community that this prize split isn&#8217;t ideal, with many arguing that the lower teams should get more of a share of the prize pool for qualifying to the biggest tournament in esports.<\/p><p><\/p><p>Regardless, a lot of people are making a lot money this month, with TI9 taking place August 15-25 and even more money set to be raised.<\/p><p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the Fortnite World Cup gave out the biggest prize pool in esports history with a total &#36;30million on the line, Battle Pass sales&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dota-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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