The International (Dota 2) Prize Pool by Year
Key Findings
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From 2016 to 2025, Total Prize Pool (USD Millions) moved from 20.77 to 2.88 (-86.1%).
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The highest value in Total Prize Pool (USD Millions) came in 2021: 40.02.
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The lowest was 2024 at 2.60.
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The sharpest single-year move was 2022 → 2023: -83.4% (18.93 → 3.14).
About This Dataset
The International (Dota 2) Prize Pool by Year
This chart tracks the total prize pool of Valve's annual Dota 2 world championship, The International, in US dollars by year. Prize pools were largely crowdfunded through in-game Battle Pass sales.
Analysis
Across 2016–2025 in Total Prize Pool (USD Millions), the figure moved from 20.8 to 2.88 (-86.1%). The peak came in 2021 at 40.0, and the low point in 2024 at 2.60. The sharpest single-year change was 2022 to 2023: -83.4% (18.9 to 3.14). 4 of the 9 years recorded a higher figure than 2016 did.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia (The International, Dota 2)
- Coverage
- 9 entities · 9 observations
- Measure
- Total Prize Pool (USD Millions)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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