Yatoro made a candid confession about the prize pool for The International 2023

Ilya "Yatoro" Mulyarchuk, the carry player of Team Spirit, admitted that players didn't receive the entire prize money from The International 2023. He had to pay 19% of his winnings as taxes.

This confession was made by the Dota 2 world champion during a Twitch stream.

According to the esports athlete's words, the players had to part with a significant amount of money after winning TI12. If we do simple calculations, Team Spirit won The International 2023 and received 45% of the total prize pool, which was $1,521,362.

If we don't consider the percentage that the organization takes, then each player of the roster should have received around $304,272. However, after deducting the mentioned 19%, which Yatoro talked about, the world champion had to pay approximately $57,811 in taxes from his winnings.

Based on these calculations, Team Spirit earned $1,232,303 after taxes for winning the Dota 2 World Championship.

It's worth mentioning that Yatoro previously made a statement about Team Falcons incredible success this season.