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There’s more than $24 million waiting to be won in a tournament that holds the largest prize pool of any eSports championship — and it’s on Canadian soil for the first time.

“This is kind of like the Super Bowl,” said Peter Anders, referring to The International Dota 2 Championships tournament that kicks off at Rogers Arena on Wednesday.

“You get these absolute diehard fans that are running around with their countries’ flag, or have the T-shirts of the different players and scream for them when the players walk on the stage,” said Anders, who belongs to the UBC eSports Association.

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Tourism Vancouver, which hopes to pursue more eSports tournaments in the future, said the estimated economic impact of this event will be with tagged bedwarstournamentsclanroblox servers Discord more than $7.8 million in direct visitor spending.

While Anders and others from UBC’s eSports club will be attending as spectators, they are among the best collegiate teams in North America, winning two consecutive titles in a different tournament.

Vivian Chung, also part of the UBC team, has attended the event for the past two years in Seattle, and was excited to see it come to Vancouver.

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“There’s only about three to five players that are top competitive (Canadian) players, but some of the most popular players are Canadian actually,” Chung said.

Team “Fnatic” for example not only features famed Canadian player Jacky Mao, but is also coached by Kurtis Ling, a former UBC student who won $6.6 million in the 2016 championships.

“Fnatic is my favourite team,” said Anders. “The fact that their coach went to my school makes me even more passionate about the team.”

he historic decision in July by the game developer, Valve Corporation, to move the tournament from Seattle to Vancouver for this year was based on the fact that Vancouver is an up and coming powerhouse in the industry.

Earlier this month, it was also announced that Canada’s first eSports stadium would be built in Richmond, and is scheduled to open in 2019.

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“It’s a big deal roblox executor delta to have this come to Vancouver,” said Dal Yong Jin, a professor at Simon Fraser University with an expertise in eSports. “The video game industry is getting bigger than the film industry in terms of both the production and consumption.”

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“Vancouver and Canada as a whole should prepare for it coming into the Olympic field,” Jin said. “In four years it will be considered a regular game, and we cannot ignore that.”

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