DOTA Tournament Sumail Hassan Team Placed 3rd Wins $2 Million

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After the end of currently organized DOTA The International 2016, Evil Geniuses has grabbed $2 million while one of the team’s member is Sumail Hassan.

In order to play DOTA on faster internet connections and avoid pings, Sumail moved from his hometown Karachi to Chicago. He performed superbly in the in-house gaming league of North America which made him famous there.

One of the biggest e-gaming team, “Evil Geniuses, got knowledge about the abilities of Sumail and he was later hired by the team manager who himself was a DOTA 2 player of the past. His journey of success starts from here.

After Sumail became the member of EG team, the team earned $1.2 million during the DOTA 2 Asian Championship, $6.6 million after winning ‘The International 2015’ and now the team has earned $2 million in the latest ‘The International 2016’. The share of Hassan remained $256,800, $1.3 million and $436,180 respectively.

DOTA International is a Seattle based annual event while its sixth edition was ‘The International 2016”. The event was based on 5 stages while the main event was held from 8th to 13th August 2016. Initially, $1,600,000 was the prize pool of the tournament but the sale of TI6 Battle Pass to the players increased it to 20,770,460. The prize pool received 25% of this addition.

This year, Evil Geniuses was not an invited team but they used the ‘Open Qualifiers’ to enter the tournament. During the main event, EG remained victorious against almost all the teams its victory against Chinese team EHOME is considered to be the best game of the tournament. This advance was halted by the winners of the tournament Wings Gaming (0-2) and later by Digital Chaos (1-2) and they ended with 3rd place in the event. All in all, $2180, 898 remained their total prize money. Wings achieved $9,139,002 after taking 1st position while 2nd position is taken by Digital Chaos with $3,427,126.

1999 is the year of foundation for Evil Geniuses and the electronic sports organization is now ruling the North America as it ranked number 2 in the region and number 7 in the whole world. In all the tournaments, its winning rate is 63%.





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