For many people, eSports has long ceased to be just entertainment and has turned into a full-fledged way of earning money. While some make a profit from placing bets on esports matches on parimatch bet, others are directly involved in them.
If you want to join the ranks of the latter, it is strongly recommended that you approach your choice of esports discipline carefully, since not all of them are equally promising financially.
Which Games are the Most Popular
Find out which esports game can be considered the most widespread and lucrative:
- Dota 2. In 2011, the first-ever The International was held — an international Dota 2 tournament, organized by the developer Valve. Since then, Dota 2 has no competitors in terms of prize money, and The International winners earn several times more winners from other eSports disciplines. The prize fund of the tournament is only growing from year to year. If in 2018 it was $ 25 million, then in 2019 this sum increased to $ 34 million. In just 9 years of The International’s existence, Valve has raffled off $ 140 million. Teams from the CIS have repeatedly won prizes in this championship and received impressive sums for this.
- CS: GO is the main competitor to Dota 2 in terms of popularity among gamers. Despite the eternal rivalry between the two disciplines in terms of demand, CS: GO is clearly inferior to Dota in terms of prize money. Valve hosts two major tournaments annually with a total prize pool of $ 1 million. At the same time, the number of side CS: GO tournaments with decent prize pools is large. It is impossible to calculate the exact amount of prize money, but it clearly exceeds the $ 20 million mark.
- Fortnite is a computer game that was released in 2017. Thanks to the efforts of the creators, including the organization of competitions with generous prize pools, Fortnite was able to quickly gain recognition from gamers. Just a year after its release, Fortnite was played by over 78 million people on a regular basis. The development company Epic Games was so inspired by the success that it decided to continue to invest huge sums in its brainchild. In 2019, she gave away $ 100 million in prize money. Although this has surpassed the efforts of the aforementioned company Valve, you cannot yet put Fortnite above Dota or CS: GO. The fact is, this promising game and its creators have not yet stood the test of time.
- League of Legends is a popular video game with a monthly audience of 100 million. Unlike Dota 2 and CS: GO, all more or less large LOL tournaments are held under the auspices of its developer Riot Games. Every year, the company hosts the League of Legends World Championship, to which the winners of the Summer Splits are invited. As the demand for the game increases, its prize fund also increases. In 2015, it amounted to $ 2.3 million, in 2019 — already about $ 5 million.
- Overwatch is not a bad choice to start your esports career. Over the past few years, the development company Blizzard has been creating a professional league for this discipline and has allocated large sums of money for the competition. In 2018, the creators of the shooter organized the first season of the Overwatch League, in which they raffled off $ 3.5 million. The tournament was successful and was repeated a year later. By the way, in addition to the main Overwatch championship, several secondary matches are organized in this discipline every year.
The thing is — to choose what you like more.
