The International 2024 has wrapped up, and Dota 2 has crowned its champions of the year in Copenhagen as Team Liquid took out the trophy, finally earning the second Aegis after years of heartbreak and close calls, beating out Gaimin Gladiators in convincing fashion.
Coming into TI 2024, Team Liquid received a direct invite thanks to their great performances over the year. Although they haven’t won any trophies, regularly losing out to other dominant teams like Team Falcons, Team Spirit, Gaimin Gladiators, and Xtreme Gaming, they were still top contenders.
In the group stage, Team Liquid came second, losing out to a strong Team Spirit for the top seed, but in their seeding decider match against BetBoom Team, they won, getting a buy into the upper bracket quarter-final.
From there, it was a clean sweep to the Aegis. Beating out Xtreme Gaming in the upper quarterfinal, Cloud9 in the upper semifinals, Gaimin Gladiators in the upper finals, booking their spot in the Grand Final without losing a single map.
Gaimin Gladiators clawed their way into another TI Grand Finals against Team Liquid, however, an on fire Liquid dominated in 3-0 fashion, winning the org their second Aegis after their 2017 win.
As for Gaimin Gladiators, this is the second TI Grand Finals in a row they lost, in 2023 to a dominant Team Spirit and now to Team Liquid in 2024.
Below you can find everything you need to know about what happened in TI13.
Final standings
Placement
Team
Prize Money (USD)
1
Team Liquid
$1,158,911
2
Gaimin Gladiators
$360,555
3
Tundra Esports
$231,740
4
Team Falcons
$154,493
5-6
Cloud9Xtreme Gaming
$90,139
7-8
BetBoom TeamAurora
$64,355
9-12
1w TeamHeroicTeam Spirit
$51,463
13-16
Team ZerobeastcoastG2 x iG
$38,676
Prize pool and Compendium
The initial prize pool on offer for TI13 was the same as it had been for every iteration since the first TI held at Gamescom in 2011, $1.6 million. However, Valve released a Compendium to further boost the prize pool with crowdfunding.
25 percent of all sales made from the compendium were added to The International’s prize pool. Similar to this year, last year’s compendium was also released two weeks before the event.
In total $975,377 was added to the prize pool from the Compendium, totaling the final pot to $2,575,377.
Format and schedule
The International 13 played out between September 4 to September 15, 2024. The event kicked off with the group stage on September 4-5, followed by the playoffs from September 6-10.
After a two-day break, the action resumed on September 13 for the finals weekend before crowning the new champion on September 15.
As for the group stage, teams were segregated into four groups of four teams each with every team playing best-of-two series against others in their group. Following that, the top two teams from each group faced off against the 3rd or 4th placed teams from their opposite groups (A against B and C against D) to determine seedings for the playoffs.
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