DOTA 2 The International 8 prize pool is keeping up with last year’s record

The DOTA 2 World championship this year called the International 8 (TI8), and its prize pool hits $20 million dollars until now, thanks to the International Battle Pass 2018.

Since the base prize pool was set by DOTA 2 developer and publisher Valve at $1.6 million, this means that almost $18.5 has been raised through the crowdfunding campaign so far.

Despite such a milestone for this year’s campaign, however, the current amount in the pot is still trailing that of last year’s tournament. At around the same time last year the TI7 prize pool had around $427,000 more than this year’s prize pool, which amounts to about a 2.3 percent deficit between the two.

Of course, this differential is still much closer than what it was two weeks ago, when the TI8 prize pool was 10 percent behind that of TI7. Thanks to the battle level and treasure bundle released by Valve that same week, however, the difference between the two iterations of the annual world championship event has diminished significantly.

With 44 days remaining until the Battle Pass expires on Sept. 1 and the third Immortal treasure still to be released, there is still plenty of time for the campaign to catch up to where it was last year.

The biggest DOTA 2 event of the year, it’s the world championship TI8 set to be started from 20 to 25 August this year.