Imagine, you gain high earnings by playing games. Yes, you can gain much earnings through esport competitive tournament. But, its not that easy. Every success start with a single step. It require skills, critical thinking to arrange perfect strategy to achieve certain victory. This are games that has largest prize pool in esport industry.
5. Starcraft II
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is a science fiction real-time strats video game published by Blizzard Entertainment. It was release as a sequel to 1998 video game StarCraft and the Brood War expansion pack. This real time strategy (RTS) game had an active professional circuit, particularly in South Korea. Two major game channels in South Korea, Ongamenet and MBCGame, each ran by Starleague viewed by million of fans. This game also popular computer game competition during annual World Cyber Games due to their massive fanbase.$34,695,574.782087 Players2491 Tournaments
4. League of Legends
$82,031,341.767201 Players2491 Tournaments
League of Legends World Championship is annual professional LoL world championship tournament hosted by Riot Games. Many teams around the world will compete against each other for the 32kg Summoner's Cup. This tournament has gained popularity to become one of the most prestigious and watched tournament. Due to it success, esports seen as a potential Olympics event, already being included a medal in 2022 Asian Games.
3. Fortnite
16-year-old, Kyle 'Bugha' Giersdorf won $3 million prize for winning the Fortnite World Cup on 2019. He stood up for himself and winning the grand prize at Arthur Ashe Stadium located at New York.$99,362,917.414459 Players673 Tournament
Kyle @Bugha Giersdorf, 16, is your #FortniteWorldCup singles champion and walks away with $3 million in a wire-to-wire dominant victory. pic.twitter.com/OZzMNNuo3R
— ESPN Esports (@ESPN_Esports) July 28, 2019
2. Counter Strike: Global Offensive
$110,364,705.2213423 Players5474 Tournaments
Do not call yourself a FPS gamer if you have not played CSGO even once! Counter Strike has 20 years of competitive history starting with the original classic Counter Strike that have been hosted since 2000. The first Major tournament was held in Dallas, Texas at 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League that won by a team called Ninjas in Pyjamas. The prize offered $150,000 during that tournament. No wonder CSGO can achieve such huge number of prize pool because the community is growing since then.
1. Dota 2
$230,850,489.523983 Players1487 Tournaments
The International is the annual tournament for Dota 2 hosted by its game developer, Valve. This game is similar to LoL that makes Dota and LoL an everlasting rival for MOBA genre games. The International or TI was first held in Gamescom as promotional event for the Dota 2 in 2011. The first highest prize pool start from TI4 which is $10,931,103.00 in 2014. The prize pool keeps going up when The International was held. In 2019, TI9 prize pool is $34,330,069 and the next year, the prizepool is $40,018,195 make Dota 2 has the largest prize pool among all esports games.
Can Dota 2 keep their prize pool increase for next TI?
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