The International 2019 Battle Pass has arrived

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May 8, 2019

Valve has unveiled the International 2019 Battle Pass for the upcoming tournament, which as always, will see 25% of all sales going directly towards the tournaments prize pool.

International 2019 Battle Pass is now out

For this year’s Battle Pass, Valve has chosen a “Jungle Expedition” theme which will see players take part in a Wrath of the Mo’rokai special event. Reward line items include custom ‘Overgrown Empire’ terrain, evolving courier, ‘Majesty of the Colossus’ Tiny Prestige Item, ‘Planetfall’ Earthshaker Arcana, weaponless ‘Axe Unleashed’ item set, and lots more.

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After 18 hours of release, the Battle Pass has already contributed $5.19M (£3.99M) to the International Prize Pool. This is already 29.86% ahead of the 2018 prize pool. With a base prize pool of $1.6M(£1.2M), the total is currently at $6M (£4.61M) and growing – as tracked here.

Last year the TI prize pool reached an incredible $25M (£19.2M) making it the biggest in history. However, Epic Games announced its $30M (£23M) Fortnite World Cup this year meaning The Battle Pass will need to raise 28.4M (£21M) and more to claim back the record

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This year sees The International head to China for the first time with the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai playing host from August 15th to 25th. The tournament will see 18 teams go head-to-head, including 12 teams via the DPC and six teams from the regional qualifiers. Virtus.pro, Team Secret, Vici Gaming, Evil Geniuses and Fnatic are among the teams already announced to be heading to Shanghai.