Yesterday, the DotaTalk RaidCall channel 1220 reached a peak of 3,140 concurrent members online. With that, the Lottery to The International 3 was ran as promised.

A funded trip to The International 2013 – any avid Dota 2 fans’ dream, costing nearly U$D 2,500 was realized yesterday as the DotaTalk RaidCall channel reached it’s target of 3,140 concurrent members (read more). A lucky fan had his day, being chosen by fate out of the 3,140 online. However, Lieus Darwin, the TI3 lottery winner from Indonesia decided to forfeit the ticket in exchange for money. Why? A short interview with him follows.

Hello, and congratulations again for being chosen to head to Seattle with DotaTalk. How are you feeling right now? I’m sure grateful. You’ve decided to forfeit the prize for an amount of monies. May I ask what is your reasoning in this? I think going alone to Seattle will be a boring trip. Have you ever thought of giving the prize away to some other fan? No, because I’m really interested in going, but the conditions set are not to my expectations. Any final words? Thank you DotaTalk for providing this chance to me. I’m sorry to all the other fans for disappointing you with my choice. Maybe I’ll not miss my chance next time if I can go with others. After all, Dota is all about teamwork.

Despite missing out on the chance to watch The International 3 live, Lieus will be happy with the undisclosed amount of money he received as a consolation for the prize. Other peripherals such as SteelSeries QCK+ Mousepads, SteelSeries APEX keyboards and Fiery Soul of the Slayer was given out. The winners are as follows

SteelSeries QCK+ mousepads

Bogdan Tovsteniuk Sergiyovich (Na`Vi edition)

Herr H. Wuersch (Dota 2 edition)

Serkan Emre ERFIDAN (FNatic edition)

Chew Wei Song (Na`Vi edition)

Rohan Jain (Dota 2 edition)

Markus Burau (Na`Vi edition)

SteelSeries Apex Raw keyboards

Abang Naim

Mile Danev

Fiery Soul of the Slayer

Err0r

Jerahmel

Om Hom Hom

Calibans

Special thanks to the prize sponsors SteelSeries, GigaByte, e-Club and RaidCall for making dreams of so many fans come true. DotaTalk will be hosting many other giveaways in the near future, so stay tuned!