The International Dota 2 Championship was the world's largest Dota 2 tournament, based on prize pot. The event was held from August 26 to September 2, 2012, at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Washington. This event is the second tournament to bear the name 'The International'. The first International was held in 2011 and functioned as the launch date of the Dota 2 beta.

Out of the 16 participating teams, 14 were invited, with the remaining two receiving their place in the tournament via two invite-only geographic qualifier tournaments, the "West Qualifier" and the "East Qualifier."

Format [ edit ]

Preliminaries 16 invited teams placed into 2 groups of 8 teams each. Each team will play all the other teams in their group 2 times. The top four teams from each group are placed into the Winners Bracket. The bottom four teams from each group are placed into the Losers Bracket.

Main Event All rounds of the Winners Bracket, except for the grand finals, are Bo3. Rounds 1 through 4 of the Losers Bracket are Bo1. The last two rounds of the Losers Bracket are Bo3. The winner of the Losers Bracket will face the winner of the Winners Bracket in the grand finals in a Bo5 in order to determine the champion.



Broadcast Talent [ edit ]





1 CaspeRRR, mtrx4u and NS were unable to attend the event due to visa issues and casted from CyberArena, Kiev instead.[1]

Prizepool [ edit ]

Like the first International, a total of $1,600,000 USD was spread among the top 8 teams as seen below.

Participants [ edit ]

1 MUFC ran into last minute issues and was replaced by mousesports after playing a Bo5 series against World Elite.[2] For detailed results and information about this match, Click Here. 2 mousesports replaced ComeWithMe KuroKy

Results [ edit ]

Preliminaries [ edit ]

For detailed match results, click here.

Main Event [ edit ]

Upper Bracket R1 (Bo3) LGD Gaming 2 Orange Esports 0 compLexity 1 Team Zenith 2 Invictus Gaming 2 Evil Geniuses 1 Team DK 1 Natus Vincere 2 Upper Bracket R2 (Bo3) LGD Gaming 2 Team Zenith 0 Invictus Gaming 1 Natus Vincere 2 Upper Bracket Final (Bo3) LGD Gaming 1 Natus Vincere 2 Lower Bracket R1 (Bo1) CLG 1 Mortal Teamwork 0 mousesports 0 EHOME 1 TongFu 1 Moscow Five 0 Darer 1 Absolute Legends 0 Lower Bracket R2 (Bo1) Orange Esports 1 CLG 0 compLexity 0 EHOME 1 Evil Geniuses 0 TongFu 1 Team DK 1 Darer 0 Lower Bracket R3 (Bo1) Orange Esports 0 EHOME 1 TongFu 0 Team DK 1 Lower Bracket R4 (Bo1) Invictus Gaming 1 EHOME 0 Team Zenith 0 Team DK 1 Lower Bracket R5 (Bo3) Invictus Gaming 2 Team DK 1 Lower Bracket Final (Bo3) LGD Gaming 1 Invictus Gaming 2 Grand Final (Bo5) Natus Vincere 1 Invictus Gaming 3

For detailed match results click here

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Additional Data [ edit ]

Country Representation [ edit ]

# Country / Region #P ΔTI1 Players 1 23 +4 BurNIng, Super, rOtk, Zippo, LongDD, LaNm, KingJ, PCT, X!!, QQQ, Zhou, Ferrari_430, YYF, Faith, Sylar, xiao8, Yao, DD, Hao, Mu, Kabu, Awoke, SanSheng 2 8 +1 LighTofHeaveN, ARS-ART, God, Silent, Admiration, Vigoss, PGG, Bloodangel 3 7 +5 Fear, BuLba, DeMoN, UNiVeRsE, HANNAH_MONTANA, FLUFFNSTUFF, ixmike88 4 6 +1 YamateH, Mushi, WinteR, XtiNcT, Ice, ChuaN 4 6 +3 XBOCT, Dendi, Artstyle, Mag~, Goblak, Funn1k 6 4 +2 Pajkatt, Mirakel, Akke, Loda 6 4 -1 Hyhy, iceiceice, xFreedom, xy- 6 4 +4 blackshatan, xMusiCa, Godot, Snoopy 6 4 +3 bLeeK, 1437, TC, Jeyo 10 3 -2 Sockshka, Funzii, 7ckngMad 10 3 0 Black^, KuroKy, Kebap 10 3 -6 MiSeRy, Maelk, syndereN 13 2 +2 Singsing, SexyBamboe 14 1 0 Lacoste 14 1 0 Puppey 14 1 0 DDC

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