The International 2017
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| Tournament information | |
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| Sport | Dota 2 |
| Location | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Dates | August 7–12, 2017 |
| Administrator(s) | Valve Corporation |
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Tournament
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Group stage Round robin Main event Double elimination |
| Host(s) | Valve Corporation |
| Venue(s) | KeyArena |
| Participants | 18 teams |
| Purse | US$24,787,916 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Team Liquid |
| 1st runner-up | Newbee |
| 2nd runner-up | LGD.Forever Young |
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The International 2017 (TI7) was the seventh iteration of The International, an annual Dota 2 eSports championship tournament. Hosted by Valve Corporation, the game's developer, the tournament began with the qualifier phase in June 2017, and ended after the main event at the KeyArena in Seattle in August. It awarded the biggest prize pool in eSports history at over US$24 million, breaking the record set by the previous year's tournament. The Grand Finals took place between the European-based Team Liquid and the Chinese-based Newbee, with Liquid sweeping Newbee 3-0 in a best-of-five series, winning nearly US$11 million in prize money.
Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena video game (MOBA) developed by the Valve Corporation. In it, two teams of five players compete by selecting pre-designed in-game hero characters, each with a variety of innate skills and deploy-able powers, and cooperating together to destroy the base of the other team before their own base is destroyed as to win the round. 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 as well as any enemies revealed outside the fog of war. The game's map has three symmetric "lanes" between each base, with a number of automated defense turrets protecting each side. Periodically, the team's base will spawn an army of weak non-playable minions that will march down one lane towards the opponents' base, fighting any enemy hero, minion, or structure they encounter. If a hero character is killed, that character will respawn back at their base after a delay period, which gets progressively longer the farther into the match. The game is a free-to-play, but financially supported by Valve with a variety of microtransactions such as cosmetic items for playable characters. As with previous years of the tournament, a corresponding digital compendium for Dota 2 was released before the event, allowing the prize pool to be crowdfunded. Known as the "Battle Pass", 25% of revenue made by it was sent directly towards the tournament's prize pool.
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