I don't think they gave a fuck about rental rates, but more likely because these were the only available dates to run the eventIt's possible the times are due to the venue. Dem weekend rental rates.
Well Dreamhack does that too and I've seen it done in other tournaments, it's definitely weird though especially since they could have started a day earlier and still have 3days downtime between the early phases and the later ones, or started the whole thing a day earlier.I can't believe they aren't holding finals on a weekend. This is the first decision by valve that really miffed me off
Fear not, friends.Can't make it to the event? Don't worry, many of these products will be available for purchase online shortly after The International, while the in-game items will become available on the Dota store throughout the tournament.
I can't be arsed to go through 360 pages to find it, but we compared theoretical prize pools to sports events like ATP Tour a while back, and they are generally far more evenly spread.I think the prize split is about perfect. Hell, I'd even put a full 50% to winners.
You *really* want the top talent to want to WIN. No, not place well, not earn a living but motherfucking win the damned thing.
It's hard to translate a professional trophy's value into eSports so you just do it like poker. Win = $$. Not win = soso money. Not that the non-winners are going to go broke here but every team sure as fuck is going to aim for the prize.