Dota 2’s The International 4 tourney prize pool hits $10 million

If you’re one of the very, very few people invited to Dota 2‘s The International 4 tournament, then you stand a chance of winning quite a lot of money.

Earlier today, the prize pool for the tournament hit $10 million USD – and it’s still going up as, at time of writing, it stands at $10,021,614. It’s important to note that this isn’t the grand prize; the money itself will be divided up between everyone who wins prize money at the tournament. Still: as far as I’m aware, that’s the biggest prize pool for a videogame, ever, and likely the biggest first prize too.

Of more importance to you and I (unless you’re one of the few going there to compete, in which case, hello!) is that this means every single stretch goal has been hit. The full list of stuff is below. I can’t say I expect Valve to add more stretch goals at this point, but hey – you never know.

The International 4 itself will be taking place from 18 July to 21 July, in Seattle’s KeyArena. If you fancy reading up on a bit of International 4 related drama that doesn’t quite merit a news item on its own, go have a read of the situation going on with Fnatic and Era.

1. Evolving Battle Point Booster
2. Loading Screen treasure
3. Arcana vote
4. Special Edition HUD
5. Solo Championship vote
6. All Random Deathmatch game mode
7. Immortal treasures
8. Chat emoticons
9. Mini-Pudge courier
10. New music
11. 1v1 Mid-Only Practice matchmaking
12. Environmental effects
13. Base customisation
14. Daily hero challenge
15. Alternate voice vote + voice pack
16. Favourite hero analysis tool
17. Model update vote
18. Multi-kill banner
19. Afterparty broadcast feat. Darude
20. New upgraded creep models
21. A to Z challenge support
22. Victory prediction taunt

And also the bonus Techie taunt. We’re still waiting on the majority of these bonuses, but hey, it’s Valve.