Exciting news for Dota 2 fans, as Gamers without Borders has announced it will be hosting a $1.5 million charity Dota 2 tournament with some of the best teams in the world competing.
Gamers without Borders is an esports tournament hosted by the SAFEIS, Saudi Arabian Federation for Electronic and Intellectual Sports, that began on April 24th and is slated to last until June 7th. Furthermore, the prize fund for the entire month-and-a-half event consists of a whopping $10 million dollars, which will be donated to COVID-19 relief efforts, along with the sponsorship revenues. The first tournament Gamers without Borders hosted was with PUBG, which also had a prize pool of $1.5 million. Its most recent tournament was hosted on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and had a prize pool of $500,000.
This Dota 2 tournament will be the third game in the Gamers without Borders series and will commence from May 15th to May 17th with eight top-tier Dota 2 teams from the European and CIS regions participating, including Team Liquid, Team Secret, The Alliance GG, NipGaming, OG Esports, Team Nigma, VirtusPro, and Natus Vincere. The winners of the tournament will get to choose where to donate their prize money to from a plethora of options, such as the International Medical Corps, Direct Relief, UNICEF, King Salman’s Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and others. As of right now, a whopping $2.5 million has been donated to the COVID-19 relief charities thus far.
The high-prized three-day Dota 2 event will be broadcasted live on the Gamers without Borders’ Twitch channel at 5 AM CT on the tournament start date. The broadcast, organized by the ESL, will be broadcasted in a total of eight different languages in order to amass a high viewership throughout the duration of the event. English, Arabic, Spanish, and Mandarin are some of the broadcast language options.
This event has proved to mean a lot to the gaming and esports industries as a whole. Many industries across the entire world have been brutalized by the COIVD-19 pandemic. It is highly noble and extremely helpful for this generation of gamers to help the world during this difficult just by doing what they love. Hopefully, this trend will continue for gaming and esports long after this chapter of the world is over.
