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While $17 million (and growing) is a phenomenal amount for an eSports tournament, especially when you consider where eSports was just five years ago, it is a warning that The International has become too big, too quickly. This is growth reminiscent of the dot-com boom, and we all know how that went. If something isn't done to cap The International's prize pool, we can expect a broken eSports scene before we know it, one that places too much pressure on a single event and makes every other competitive game look pointless by comparison. I don't know about you, but personally I can't think of anything worse.Follow Mike Stubbsy on Twitter.Over at VICE Sports: BattleBots Is Sports All Right, and It's Amazing