In a scant few months, someone is going to win six million dollars in a single game of DOTA 2, Valve’s popular online game. In total, more than seventeen million dollars will be doled out to the contestants. The competition is The International, Valve’s worldwide DOTA 2 championship, which was the subject of their 2014 documentary “Free To Play.” This is the largest prize pool ever offered for an e-sports competition, more than ten times larger than the prize pool for the first The International, just a few years ago. This would be shocking if it weren’t part of a much larger trend. E-sports,...
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