Orrin Xu announced on his twitter account that Chinese organisation Alisports is going to, allegedly, host big prize tournaments in CS:GO, DotA2, Starcraft II and Hearthstone.
Ali Sports Group was established in Shanghai. Ali aims to set up sports digital economy innovative thinking development of sports industry chain, Alibaba Group Holdings, Sina cloud front funds and co-financing. Da Zhong, former vice president of SMG as Ali Sports CEO, Alibaba Group CEO Zhang Yong will act as Ali Sports chairman.
AliSports (Alibaba) announces 1.5M CSGO, 1.5M DOTA2, 400K SC2, 300K Hearthstone tournament today
— Orrin Xu (@orrinxu) March 30, 2016
Thats USD by the way for people wondering, and there will be crowdfunding on top
— Orrin Xu (@orrinxu) March 30, 2016
The prize pool for the tournaments would be:
- CS:GO $1.5mil
- DotA2 $1.5mil
- Starcraft II $400.000
- Hearthstone $300.000
Source: Reddit
