The tournament with a $1,000,000 prize pool seems to be the benchmark and standard for major Esports events. In fact, 20 different championships in the last three years have featured multi-million dollar prize pools, with 2022 being the host of Halo 5, CS:GO, League Of Legends, Heroes Of The Storm, rFactor2, Dota 2 and Hearthstone. great for their esports title. Reported from xygaming, here are 5 esport games with the biggest prizes:
5. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Console)
Biggest Prize Pool: $1,525,000
Total Prize: $4,027,894
Tournament Number: 72
The thirteenth series of phenomenal FPS games, Call Of Duty Infinite Warfare is the esports game title for 2022. Every year the newest title from the Call Of Duty franchise becomes the game of choice for the Call of Duty World Final competition which presents huge prizes.
This year’s Call of Duty competition broke the record number of views in a CWL event despite protests from the Call Of Duty scene which has a futuristic space war genre. More than 20 million people watched Call of Duty World League matches during the tournament and it proves that esports consoles are far alive. and growing now.
Fun Fact: The Infinite Warfare game trailer posted on YouTube has become the most “disliked” video in YouTube history, many of which are due to the jetpack footage and futuristic gameplay.
4. Heroes Of The Storm (PC)
Biggest Prize Pool: $1,000,000
Total Prize: $4,783,332
Tournament Number: 31
Released in 2022 Heroes Of The Storm (abbreviated as HotS) is the youngest esports game title on this list. This battle arena game (MOBA) is highly supported by Blizzard developers and is the cause of the rapid rise in the esports realm.
In 2022, the Grand Final Heroes Of The Storm Global Championship was held with an audience of 3,559,574 with a peak reaching 191,037 viewers watching at the same time.
Fun Fact: This game features characters from previous Blizzard games such as WarCraft, Starcraft, and Diablo, as well as Overwatch in its latest title.
3. League of Legends (PC)
Largest Prize Pool: $4,946,969
Total Prize: $12,018,015
Number of Tournaments: 139 Tournaments
League of Legends is considered the biggest esports game in the world, due to its large audience and being the most played game in the world for many years, 2022 & 2022, respectively.
Game developers Riot Games are holding a League Of Legends Championship (LCS for short) tournament. It consists of twenty teams competing in two separate competitions for North America and Europe, with ten teams per continent.
The World Finals had a prize pool of $4.9 million and was watched by 106 million viewers at the same time for the Grand Finals.
Fun Fact: Of the 106 million concurrent viewers who watched the World Finals, 104 million were from China.
2. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (PC)
Biggest Prize Pool: $1,000,000
Total Prize: $19,242,958
Tournament Number: 893
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) held four tournaments that matched their biggest prize pool of 2022 with $1,000,000. Even though CS:GO has the lowest Prize Pool of the five major esports titles, it still has one of the most viewed and active tournaments in esports.
Of the four $1,000,000 tournaments for CS:GO last year, the 2022 PGL Major Krakow was the most important event of the year with an audience of over 40 million during the event with a peak of 1,897,741 concurrent viewers during the finals.
Fun Fact: Since the merger of the E-League with TBS in 2022, they have run six major CS:GO tournaments with a total prize pool of $5,750,000.
1. Defense Of The Ancients 2 (Dota 2) (PC)
Biggest Prize Pool: $25,532,177
Total Prize: $38,023,275
Tournament Number: 158
Dota 2 has a giant tournament with the highest prize money in the world for esports in the last four years in The International Dota 2 tournament. In fact, the 2022 International Tournament still outperformed other Esports tournaments by $5 million compared to its next competitor, and only Dota 2 The International 2022, 2022 and 2022 beat it.
This Prize Pool was awarded by the game developer (Valve) who initially offered an initial cash prize of $1,600,000.00, and the remainder was collected from the Dota2 playing community through the purchase of the so-called in-game compendium (also known as the Battle Pass).
25% of the proceeds from the sale of the “Battle Pass” will go directly to The International Prize Pool funding, and the rest will be taken by Valve, the game developer.
Views for Dota 2 International 2022 surpassed 92 million viewers with a peak of 10,935,730 viewers during the finals and broke the world record for the largest esports prize category, of $10,862,683 for first place and a prize pool of $24,687,919
Fun Fact: There are 43 players who are now millionaires because of the prize pool won in Dota 2 in the last three years.
