The International 2012: Dota 2 Championships
Total Prize Pool:
$1,600,000.00
Total Players:
40
Date:
2012-08-26 to 2012-09-02
The International returns in 2012 with 16 teams from around the world competed for the lucrative $1 million USD grand prize. Unlike the previous year, Valve would host the event independently at the Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Washington.
Awarded Players
 ChuaN | Wong, Hock Chuan | $200,000.00 |
 Faith | Zeng, Hongda | $200,000.00 |
| Ferrari_430 | Luo, Feichi | $200,000.00 |
| YYF | Jiang, Cen | $200,000.00 |
| Zhou | Chen, Yao | $200,000.00 |
 ARS-ART | Sergey Revin | $50,000.00 |
 Dendi | Danil Ishutin | $50,000.00 |
| LighTofHeaveN | Dmitriy Kupriyanov | $50,000.00 |
 Puppey | Clement Ivanov | $50,000.00 |
| XBOCT | Oleksandr Dashkevych | $50,000.00 |
| DD | Xie, Bin | $30,000.00 |
 DDC | Liang, Fa Ming | $30,000.00 |
| Sylar | Liu, Jiajun | $30,000.00 |
| xiao8 | Zhang, Ning | $30,000.00 |
| Yao | Yao, Zhengzheng | $30,000.00 |
| BurNIng | Xu, Zhilei | $16,000.00 |
| LongDD | Huang, Xiang | $16,000.00 |
| rOtK | Bai, Fan | $16,000.00 |
| Super | Xie, Junhao | $16,000.00 |
| ZippO | Zhou, Xiong | $16,000.00 |
 hyhy | Lim, Han Yong | $7,000.00 |
| iceiceice | Daryl Koh Pei Xiang | $7,000.00 |
| KingJ | Zhou, Yang | $7,000.00 |
| LaNm | Zhang, Zhicheng | $7,000.00 |
 Loda | Jonathan Berg | $7,000.00 |
| MMY! | Lei, Zengrong | $7,000.00 |
| PCT | Zhang, Miao Long | $7,000.00 |
| QQQ | Yao, Yi | $7,000.00 |
| xFreedom | Kelvin, Ileto Lim | $7,000.00 |
| xy | Toh, Wai Hong | $7,000.00 |
| Awoke | Ye, Liang | $5,000.00 |
| Hao | Chen, Zhihao | $5,000.00 |
| Ice | Chua, Chee Cai | $5,000.00 |
| Kabu | Zhao, Kai | $5,000.00 |
| Mu | Zhang, Pan | $5,000.00 |
| Mushi | Chai, Yee Fung | $5,000.00 |
| SanSheng | Wang, Zhaohui | $5,000.00 |
| Winter | Chan, Litt Binn | $5,000.00 |
| Xtinct | Joel Chan Zhan Leong | $5,000.00 |
| YamateH | Ng, Wei Poong | $5,000.00 |
Prize Money By Country
Tournaments
| The International 2012 | - | $1,600,000.00 | Dota 2 |