Recent marathon contests during TI 2026 playoffs in Shanghai, including multiple games stretching past 60 minutes with extended base races, rat strategies, and high-stakes comebacks, have established a longest single-game mark already inside the low 90s. The current Dota 2 patch and prevalent late-game farming lineups among top teams like Team Spirit and TEAM VISION have sustained this trend through the double-elimination bracket and best-of-five grand final, where individual maps have reached 64 minutes but none have exceeded the existing ceiling. Trader consensus around 91-95 minutes reflects the wisdom of crowds pricing in historical TI patterns—where outliers rarely surpass 100 minutes absent extreme coordination failures—while noting that a single prolonged base-defense scenario or unusual draft could still push duration higher before the event concludes.