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BBC News - Dota 2: Chinese team wins $5m gaming prize

22 July 2014 Last updated at 01:21
Dota 2: Chinese team wins $5m gaming prize
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Newbee's success make the team the richest players in e-sports history

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Chinese team NewBee has taken home $5m (£2.9m) after winning the world's most lucrative gaming contest.

The International pits the best players of a game called Dota 2, created by developer Valve, against each other.

NewBee defeated rival Chinese team Vici Gaming to win the title.

The total prize money was $10.9m, with the runners-up getting $1.4m, and $4.5m distributed among the other 19 teams taking part in the tournament, which began on 18 July in Seattle.


Valve donated $1.6m of the prize money, but the rest was raised by some of the millions of people who regularly play the game.

Dota 2 is as a multiplayer online battle arena game for the PC.

Each player assumes the role of one of 107 different heroes and must work together to defend their own and destroy their rival's "ancient" - an artefact sitting in a fortress sited in one corner of the game map.

Video streams of the matches have been shared online, and Valve even ran a "newcomer" series to educate people new to the game.

In addition, some bars, pubs and gaming centres around the world held parties for people keen to see the finals in a crowd.

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The online arena game pits two teams of five heroes against each other
The final was also shown on one of the ESPN channels.

"Valve have put an awful lot of thought into packing digital sports up as actual things for people to actually follow and watch and enjoy," wrote Alice O'Connor in a blogpost on the Rock, Paper Shotgun website.

Michael O'Dell, manager of the UK's Team Dignitas, said: "This year has certainly been the banner year for e-sports, with massive tournaments in Dota, League of Legends and CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive). And there are more to come. The scene is very vibrant right now."
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East Asians are quite good at gaming.

Recently, Korean MMOs have been gaining popularity. Right now I am playing a MMO called Archeage which is made by Koreans.
 
BBC News - Dota 2: Chinese team wins $5m gaming prize

22 July 2014 Last updated at 01:21
Dota 2: Chinese team wins $5m gaming prize
_76482971_0721_133149_quentin_postgame_203941-1.jpg

Newbee's success make the team the richest players in e-sports history

Related Stories
Chinese team NewBee has taken home $5m (£2.9m) after winning the world's most lucrative gaming contest.

The International pits the best players of a game called Dota 2, created by developer Valve, against each other.

NewBee defeated rival Chinese team Vici Gaming to win the title.

The total prize money was $10.9m, with the runners-up getting $1.4m, and $4.5m distributed among the other 19 teams taking part in the tournament, which began on 18 July in Seattle.


Valve donated $1.6m of the prize money, but the rest was raised by some of the millions of people who regularly play the game.

Dota 2 is as a multiplayer online battle arena game for the PC.

Each player assumes the role of one of 107 different heroes and must work together to defend their own and destroy their rival's "ancient" - an artefact sitting in a fortress sited in one corner of the game map.

Video streams of the matches have been shared online, and Valve even ran a "newcomer" series to educate people new to the game.

In addition, some bars, pubs and gaming centres around the world held parties for people keen to see the finals in a crowd.

_76418552_dotagrab.jpg
The online arena game pits two teams of five heroes against each other
The final was also shown on one of the ESPN channels.

"Valve have put an awful lot of thought into packing digital sports up as actual things for people to actually follow and watch and enjoy," wrote Alice O'Connor in a blogpost on the Rock, Paper Shotgun website.

Michael O'Dell, manager of the UK's Team Dignitas, said: "This year has certainly been the banner year for e-sports, with massive tournaments in Dota, League of Legends and CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive). And there are more to come. The scene is very vibrant right now."
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This year Newbee pretty weak. Seems Vici and EHome very strong.

Starcraft : Korea
LOL : Korea
Figthing Games : Japan
FPS : Europe
 
Pro-gaming I take it is designing and producing video games for sale. Where did these games originate? The U.S.?
 
Koreans provides us with MMO games
Japan provides us with J-RPG, some of which contains X-rated elements as well as mecha games, horror games and visual novel games
America and a few European states provide Western RPG, RTS, First/Third-person shooters, GTA-inspired games, hack-n-slash games and sports games.

What does China have to offer?
 
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