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Dota 2 obsessed Saudi prince has spent over $40,000 on the Battle Pass
You remember this guy, right? A few months back, we reported that a Saudi Arabian prince blew over $20,000 in two weeks levelling up the Dota 2 TI10 Battle Pass, and the big spender is still pumping thousands into it.
While the rate of spending has certainly decreased, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, has dropped a whopping $44,783 into the Dota 2 Battle Pass so far, according to Stratz, solidifying his position as the Pass' biggest spender at the time of writing. Because of his extremely wise investment, the prince is now level 107,573. We didn't know numbers could go that high...
While the Crown Prince is certainly the frontrunner on the leaderboards, he is being shadowed by another Dota 2 player who has been throwing equally absurd amounts of money at it. A Chinese account - which with a rough translation has the rather poetic username of 'Out of dust into dreams' - has spent just shy of $30,000, but is a measly level 71,380.
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Dota 2's grandest competition of them all, The International 10, is already making history months ahead of opening its doors. The tournament was scheduled to take place from August 18 until August 23, but was indefinitely delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It seems likely that Dota 2: The International 10 will now take place in the early months of 2021, however it may go ahead, as with many tournaments, without fans. As this will be the tenth instalment of the culmination of the Dota Pro Circuit, fans expected great things.
The International's prize pools are partially crowdfunded by players. 25% of battle pass sales and related purchases go towards the prize pool after Valve has put in an initial amount. This year, Valve awarded $1.6 million to the pot, but on August 26 fans had already created the biggest prize pool in esports history by taking the total up to $34,330,068.
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