18 Dota 2 world champions will play at The International 2025

A statistic has appeared: at The International 2025, 18 of the 80 participants of the tournament are world champions in Dota 2.

This information was shared by users on Reddit.

Interestingly, five of them have a chance to win the title for the third time, which will be an absolute record of the Dota 2 pro scene - so far no player or team has managed to do it.

The list of world champions who will play at The International 2025:

• Aydin “Insania” Sarkohi

• Samuel “Boxi” Svan

• Michal “Nisha” Jankowski

• Michael “miCKe” Wu

• Jingjun “Sneyking” Wu

• Martin “Saksa” Sazdov

• Neta “33” Shapira

• Oliver “skiter” Lepko

• Denis “Larl” Sigitov

• Yaroslav “Miposhka” Naydenov

• Alexander “Mira” Khmelevskoy

• Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov

• Alexander “TORONTOTOKYO” Hertek.

• Ilya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk

• Maroon “GH” Merhei

• Zhang “y`” Yiping (formerly known as Innocence)

• Zhang “Faith_bian” Ruida

• Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan

Recall that Valve finally announced the TI14 prize pool, which the Dota 2 developers did not change.