V1lat Explained The International 2022 Streaming Rights Situation

Vitaly Volochay shared his opinion on Valve 's decision to sell media rights to The International this year. He noted the novelty of what is happening and explained exactly how this system will work. He also called the past way of holding the group stage at TI a "cast party":

All the years before that, qualifications for Іnt were such a holy community caste, VALVE put various commentators on different matches, paid them, scoffed for talents and could broadcast all the studios. We remember the “battle of the studios” on the air. I won’t repeat, then it was cool, and drive and preparation, then quiet qualifiers were cosmic. That bula was actually the head of the rock for the studios.

What fate will not be like that. Bo is right on the kwali now it is necessary to kupuvati. I rights were sold to bookmakers. In Russia, the official broadcast of the International will be on the tv/betbum channel (it’s honestly not invested in my head.., the official broadcast of Int on the channel of the bookmaker’s office), because the betbum paid for the int amount for you can get the rights to the Championship football (symbols in American currency).

However, v1lat reassured the part of the audience that thought The International would be completely new:

What a playoff. Let's call it a tournament. That didn't change anything. As before, VALVE hire talents and playoff broadcasts will go to VALVE channels in Russian, English and other languages.

Earlier it became known that WePlay will broadcast the group stage of The International 2022 in Ukrainian. Olsior will also be covering this tournament, but will not go to Singapore, as he said in his Telegram channel. PGL, who bought the rights to cover the main Dota 2 tournament, wrote a set of rules that streamers who are going to cover the championship will have to comply with. You can read more about this here.

The International will take place from 15 to 30 October. The total prize pool will be a starting $1,600,000 + money collected from the battle pass. Last year, the total prize pool of the tournament was $38,418,195.