A well-deserved victory! Team Falcons became The International 2025 Dota 2 champions
The International 14, the biggest cybersport tournament in Dota 2, has come to an end.
The audience saw a huge number of spectacular and tense matches with the best teams in the world.
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Starting from the group stage, The International 2025 became one of the most amazing tournaments. The favourites and champions of the past years showed uncertain play and were quickly eliminated, while the outsiders showed an incredible level, and two Chinese teams - Xtreme Gaming and Tidebound - proved it. They took the top spots in the group stage, and one of them even made it to the grand finals. And in an incredible closing match, the legends of the Chinese scene from Xtreme Gaming faced the star-studded line-up of Team Falcons.
Team Falcons - a club from Saudi Arabia, represented by Oliver "Skiter" Lepko, Stanislav "Malr1ne" Potorak, Ammar "ATF" Assaf, Andreas Frank "Cr1t-" Nielsen, Jingjun "Sneyking" Wu and their legendary coach Curtis "Aui_2000" Ling - won the epic confrontation.
It is worth noting that for Skiter and Sneyking this is the second championship at The International, the first time they won the title in 2022, playing for Tundra Esports, and then helped them also Aui_2000, for whom, in turn, this is the third title, as in 2015 he won with Evil Geniuses.
Xtreme Gaming played a decent game, but were clearly weaker than their opponents. The fate of the main player of this team "Ame" is regrettable - it was his third grand final of The International and again he was one step away from victory, but did not achieve it.
The bright stars of The International 2025 were also the South American team HEROIC and Nigma Galaxy. They are well known to the public, but have not shown results on the world stage for a long time, but at the Hamburg arena they pleased with their excellent play, taking 5-6 and 7-8 places respectively.
The International 2025 prize pool was distributed as follows:
1st place - Team Falcons was awarded $1,137,285
2nd place - Xtreme Gaming won $347,924
3rd place - PARIVISION won $240,803
4th place - BetBoom Team was awarded $160,572.
It is already known that the next tournament will be held in September 2026 in Shanghai.
