The International 2024 just wrapped up, crowing Team Liquid as the best Dota 2 team in the world.
TI is the largest Dota 2 tournament of the year, a culmination of the season that has the top-performing teams from each region duking it out together in Copenhagen. Team Liquid has been declared the Grand Champions after only dropping three games throughout their entire run.
TL started with 2-0 wins against Aurora and beastcoast. Fans were shocked when they suddenly lost to Team Spirit soon after 0-2. The team seemed shaken and almost lost to underdogs BB Team, but Team Liquid ultimately came out on top and continued to the next stage.
Team Liquid easily took down Xtreme Gaming, barely dying during the 2-0 run. In fact, they only died once! It was then a hype match against rivals Cloud9 but Team Liquid steamrolled them as well. The Finals had TL face Gaimin Gladiators in a back-and-forth battle.
TI format and teams
The International 2024 featured some of the best teams in the world.
Invited:
- Team Spirit
- Xtreme Gaming
- Team Falcons
- Team Liquid
- Gaimin Gladiators
- BetBoom Team
Qualified:
- Cloud9
- Tundra Esports
- 1w Team
- Team Zero
- G2 x iG
- Talon Esports
- Aurora
- nouns
- Heroic
- beastcoast
The 16 above teams started with a Group Stage at the beginning of September, separating into four groups of four teams each. All matches were best-of-two. The top two teams from each group would then compete with the third or fourth-place teams in the opposite groups for seeding matches.
The Main Event started on September 8. The 16 teams played in a double-elimination bracket. The eight Bo3 head-to-head matches determined the bracket placement. Ultimately, two teams wound up in the Grand Finals.
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TI Prize Pool
The prize pool is one of the highlights of The International each year. This event is known for having a massive prize pool each year. In the past, it was even larger due to crowdfunding through in-game purchases.
The base prize pool for TI 2024 was $1.6 million. An additional 25% of all compendium sales was added to the total prize pool, which now totals just over $2.6 million.
Here’s how it was spread out for the top four teams:
- Team Liquid – $1.17 million
- Gaimin Gladiators – $364K
- Tundra Esports – $234K
- Team Falcons – $156K
Team Performances at TI 2024
Here is where the fun part begins! Abios has a ton of inside information based on the statistics we gathered from all TI matches. Check out how the teams performed throughout this massive event.
| Team | # of Matches at TI | # of Wins | Win Rate |
| Gaimin Gladiators | 22 | 11 | 50% |
| 1win | 12 | 4 | 33% |
| Xtreme Gaming | 17 | 11 | 65% |
| Heroic | 14 | 5 | 36% |
| Tundra Esports | 20 | 13 | 65% |
| Talon Esports | 11 | 2 | 18% |
| G2 x iG | 12 | 4 | 33% |
| Cloud9 | 14 | 9 | 64% |
| Team Zero | 13 | 5 | 39% |
| Team Falcons | 21 | 14 | 67% |
| BetBoom Team | 16 | 7 | 44% |
| nouns | 13 | 5 | 39% |
| Team Spirit | 13 | 9 | 69% |
| beastcoast | 12 | 2 | 17% |
| Team Liquid | 18 | 15 | 83% |
| Aurora | 16 | 6 | 38% |
As you can see, Team Liquid had an incredible 83% win rate. This is way more than all the other participating teams, which reached 69% at the highest. Team Liquid was crazy dominant throughout The International 2024.
Check out the average kills and deaths for each team as well. Team Falcons had the most kills, making them quite aggressive. Most deaths go to beastcoast. Unfortunately, this NA team underperformed throughout TI.
| Team | Average Kills | Average Deaths |
| Gaimin Gladiators | 20.5 | 19.5 |
| 1win | 16.2 | 22.3 |
| Xtreme Gaming | 19.4 | 17.8 |
| Heroic | 20.3 | 20.4 |
| Tundra Esports | 22.4 | 22.4 |
| Talon Esports | 19.2 | 25.9 |
| G2 x iG | 13.2 | 22.4 |
| Cloud9 | 21.9 | 18.3 |
| Team Zero | 19 | 22.1 |
| Team Falcons | 27.9 | 18.2 |
| BetBoom Team | 23.4 | 21 |
| nouns | 13.6 | 23.2 |
| Team Spirit | 21.8 | 17.9 |
| beastcoast | 15.8 | 29 |
| Team Liquid | 25.1 | 16.9 |
| Aurora | 18.2 | 19.5 |
Viewership at TI 2024
The International 12 had a peak viewership of 1.52 million fans. This is actually a slight increase from last year, showing Dota 2 is just as big of an esport as ever before.
Betting Insights from TI 2024
We have some insight into which matches had the most attention from bettors. These were the matches that had the most betting activity.
Unsurprisingly, bettors were most invested during the Finals of each stage. Team Liquid versus Gaimin Gladiators’ Grand Final match was one of the most-watched, tied with Gaimin Gladiators and Tundra Esports. It’s clear from our betting data, in fact, that Gaimin was a popular team with bettors. Another team that had bettors’ attention was Team Falcons, who ended up in fourth place.
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Tournament Stage | % of turnover |
| Gaimin Gladiators | Tundra Esports | Lower Bracket Final | 5% |
| Team Liquid | Gaimin Gladiators | Grand Final | 5% |
| nouns | Gaimin Gladiators | Upper Bracket Quarterfinals | 4% |
| Tundra Esports | Xtreme Gaming | Lower Bracket Quarterfinals | 4% |
| Talon Esports | BB Team | Lower Bracket Round 1 | 4% |
It’s important for betting sites to really shine a light on top-performing teams and their upcoming matches. But remember to also share some insight into the underdog teams. For example, Team Liquid loss to Team Spirit was definitely an upset. This could have been an optimal opportunity for bettors to make bets against the dominant team in the event for bigger payouts.
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