{"id":4727,"date":"2026-02-15T05:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/2026s-the-international-to-head-to-shanghai-in-august-dota-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:47:20","slug":"2026s-the-international-to-head-to-shanghai-in-august-dota-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/2026s-the-international-to-head-to-shanghai-in-august-dota-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2026&#8217;s The International to head to Shanghai in August &#8211; Dota 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Valve has finally dished out the details on what we can and should expect from the biggest Dota 2 tournament of the year. The International is around half a year away, with the premier event set to happen between August 20-23, with the action happening in China at Shanghai&#8217;s Oriental Sports Center.<\/p>\n<p>This event will be a big one as it&#8217;s also the 15th anniversary of The International. Beyond the main event in August, we also know the dates for most of the qualifiers and the different phases of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>There will be Open Qualifiers happening around the world between June 9-12, all before Regional Qualifiers from June 15-28. Afterwards, qualified teams will battle it out in China between August 13-16 for the Group Stage of The International, with the main Playoffs set to occur in front of a live audience between August 20-23.<\/p>\n<p>Valve promises that ticketing information for the event will be shared at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><span itemprop=\"creator\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has finally dished out the details on what we can and should expect from the biggest Dota 2 tournament of the year. The International is around half a year away, with the premier event set to happen between August 20-23, with the action happening in China at Shanghai&#8217;s Oriental Sports Center. This event will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4455,4458,3383,4456,4457],"class_list":{"0":"post-4727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-esports","8":"tag-2026s","9":"tag-august","10":"tag-dota","11":"tag-international","12":"tag-shanghai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}