Esports is really getting bigger and bigger, with tournaments after tournaments and continuous media exposure amongst all. It seems that the competitive gaming hype train is surely taking everyone by surprise. With that in mind, let’s take a look at 3 games that lived up to the hype and gave away huge prize pools.
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Dota 2 – The International 2015 – $18,429,613
Dota 2 has been critically known in the scene as someone that have given way to so many huge prize pools over its years and The International 2015, simple tops all of it. The tournament simple awarded a staggering above $18 million dollars, with the winning team, Team Evil Geniuses taking home a whopping $6,634,660, which is pretty damn high to say the least. To say the least, each player has $1.3million each, making each member a millionaire.
To be fair, even the losers got their fair share of load outs, with almost everyone in the finals receiving a million dollars. A huge success for an otherwise normal game? Afraid not.
Smite – Smite World Championship 2015 – $2,612,259
Smite is still relatively new to some people. I, in particular, have always wanted to play it, but never had a chance to, nevertheless, being good in Smite does have a lot of perks under it. With a prize pool of almost $2.6 million, Smite Pros surely had a thing going on and a reason to fight for as the gods may say. With that in the way, Hi-Rez Studios, creator of Smite, a simple sealed their place in Competitive Gaming history as one of surely many to give away huge prize pools in competitive gaming. Now that’s a godly amount of reward.
League of Legends – World Championship 2014 – $2,130,000
Surely one of the world’s biggest Esports community in recent times, League of Legends have gained quite an insurmountable amount of popularity and is going on as one of the most popular competitive game titles in the world. Surely, they wouldn’t lose in the prize pool race, with Riot Games giving away $2,130,000 on the 2014 World Championship, wherein Korean powerhouse team Samsung Galaxy White took home the bacon, a pretty expensive bacon at that.
