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How an Out of Control Genius Hijacked Esports' Biggest Tournament

by devaccess



The International is the crown jewel of Valve’s esports empire. And every year, millions of people tune in to watch the best Dota 2 teams in the world fight over Gaben’s pocket change.
The ambitions are high – but the stakes are even higher.

And despite all of its prestige, all the attention it brings, and the level of responsibility it entails – Valve left a lot of it in the hands of this guy.

Footage credits

Written by: Alina Sotula (@ASotula)
Hosted by: Dimitri Pascaluta (@DPascaluta)
Produced & Edited by: Miles Hackett (@miles_hackett)
Illustrated Animation by: Fermin Mulett
Shot by: Matt Massey (@mattjmassey)

Music used under license from Associated Production Music LLC (”APM”).

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30 comments

theScore esports March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

What's your favourite SirActionSlacks moment/skit?

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Dillojn Gillespie March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

slacks is such a gift to the community. I used to think he was unprofessional or cringey but now looking back at it, I wouldn't change him for anything. We love you Slacks!

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Kappa2g March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

I don't play dota, but is this guy to dota as tyler1 is to league? (minus the toxicity)

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Shreyas Yakhob March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

The pocket chane term seems misleading as more than 90% of prize pool money comes from player purchases in game. Valve only contributes a million from their side.

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catafalque March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

The Lord of Cringe

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King Sisyphus March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Kaci is there to moderate him during TI

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Kayne Regnard Velasco March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Please no more TI9 deadcrowd repetition

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Arthur McKenzie Von Victorinne March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

SirActionSlacks has the mind of Invoker and the body of Ogre Magi

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NuXxCr0 March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

RIP TI10

– Sincerly, CoronaVirus

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Boooj March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

"fighting about Gaben's pocket change." lmfaoo

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lfcskorica47 March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

I really hoped while watching this there would be included his emotional speech from TI6. It was one of the strongest moments of TIs. Anyway, thanks for great video as always.

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MrChesuire March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Daaaaaaamn camera loves this guy! Wow! On a fkn macho mode I laughed so hard like in a days i didn't catch this nice feeling of stress relief

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vahid mgm March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

I really don't like him, a real pain in the ass

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Michael March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

"its 2020 stop honking ass at events" LOL

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Proxima March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Nice documentary. But you can make a better documentary with Dota 2.

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ThatAsianNoob Gaming March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Wanna know what makes Slacks the guy he is?He plays dota 2

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Vishal Thakur March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

A vid about our Lord and saviour

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Epoch March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Corona virus will prob cancel ti ten. Rlcs got canceled and I’m sure a lot of other gatherings will as well

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jmsenc March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

8:52 rate footage of a god gamer kappa

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Senpai Solo March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

What you see in camera is really the guy in person met him in ti8 was a great guy.

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bims c March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

1:04 lol these fucking awkward skits they do with the players.. i can't

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kalinovskiy March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

More like SirActionCringe…

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Mart Sevi March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Turn on Captions and click here 1:04 you'll thank me later for that.

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ky March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Slacks = icefrog???????? ::thonking::

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Kudoshi March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

We need this meme lord for #savedota2withmeme

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Rustum Mohammed March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Slacks is the Stanley Kubrick that play doto over chess.

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Jamm McThrow March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Do AdmiralBulldog

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Reniel Rareza March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Thank you for featuring SirActionSlacks and giving him the credit he deserves the community loves him more than he could ever imagine..

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Osama Zubair March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

Slacks ❤️

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Jake Christ March 15, 2020 - 3:03 am

"Fuck Slacks"
I love this guy!

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