Counter-Strike tops League of Legends because the second most-valuable esport

At the highest of the record is Dota 2. That comes as no actual shock, as The International’s annual compendiums attract prize swimming pools within the tens of hundreds of thousands. That signifies that whereas there have solely been 890 Dota 2 tournaments for the reason that recreation’s inception, Valve have paid out somewhat over $137 million in complete.

League of Legends, against this, has paid out just below $50 million throughout its 2005 tournaments over the previous few years, and had held second place for fairly some time. CS:GO, nonetheless, has lately overtaken it, with a complete prize pool of $50,674,524. That is, nonetheless, unfold out over greater than 1,000 further tournaments. So whereas Counter-Strike has paid out extra in complete, it’s common prize-per-tournament is round $8,000 decrease than LoL’s – $16,404 in comparison with $24,728. There are additionally way more professionals in Counter-Strike than in League of Legends – these prize swimming pools have been shared throughout greater than 9,000 FPS gamers, whereas there have solely been 5,268 registered League of Legends professionals.

League is more likely to spike once more within the coming months, because the Mid-Season Invitational will kick off in May, and Worlds to come back later in 2018. CS:GO within the meantime will see an virtually speedy rise, as a $100,000 prize pool is up for grabs on the 2018 Copenhagen video games.