League of Legends 2014 World Championship Prize Pool Is Over $2 Million

People saying DOTA 2 is better than LOL because of prize winnings. Ok credit where credit is dues, they they have revolutionised eSports buy making an in-game purchase for the community, that contriubtes towards the prize pool, but don't you think LOL and every other game has taken note? Dota 2 is a few years old now and still can not compete with the 27 million daily people that log in to LOL. Hell steam struggles to get even 7 million online across all games.

Looks like SMITE will have over 2Mill in it's next prize pool. 21week community Prize pool period and raised over 650k first week.

Now I am not a player of neither games but people seems to forget that Riot games actually gives any participant of the NA LCS, EU LCS, GPL, LPL, OGN and other a salary. They actually get paid to play video games. Even if you lose all season you get money every week. Now if they get paid let's say 30k a year per player (which is a little under the median according to wikipedia), that means that for the NA and EU LCS (who have 8 team each with 5 players per team (8*2*5 = 80 players total) Riot gives up 2.4 million $ in salary. Now I think that the Koran OGN have 12 teams, so for Korean it would be around 1.8 million $. And if we assume that the other 3 have 8 teams each, that makes for another 3.6 million. Put all together, it cost Riot games around 7.8 million $ in salary for their players. Added to that is the 2 million of the World championship. All in all, It also makes for around 10 million $ in money that Riot gave its players during their 2014 season. And they didn’t need people to chime in like Valve did (Valve asked people to donate to play Dota 2 at the competitive level, if you are not in the top 8 (again no increase the prize pool which made go to 10 million $).

So If you idea of how many teams actually wins money at the International but I assume it is pretty much like League’s world championship) team of the world you don’t gain jack shit. If you play league at that level, you are sure to get a salary.

I think both system works pretty well the difference is that salary is a more sneaky prize pool where have a 10 million $ for a prize pool for a single Dota 2 event is pretty impressive.

This is a sign of the times that Dota2 is taking pole position in the MOBA race.

I loved going to my local Valve listed Pubstomp and chasing back a few beers watching the Dota2 finals with fellow fans. Felt like the first time that Esports could actually be considered a sport to me.

I get Dota 2 had a bigger prize pool, but that game is god awful. It's a clusterfuck of over the top particle effects, incohesive gameplay and barbie dressup like accessories. Only reason why it gets praise is probably cause it's made by Valve. If any other dev made it, it wouldn't get any recognition because it simply doesn't deserve any.

Aww...$2million prize pool...that's cute

LOL!

They make plenty off advertising on their twitch streams. As long as they dont play music... stupid twitch.

I do prefer Dota over LoL, but $2 million still isn't anything to scoff at.

Meh 2 million, LoL

DoTA 2 is where its at! The International Compendium prize money was 10 million!!

PFFFFFFFFF

dota 2 called it says it had 10 M $ prize pool

Yeah I'm curious why there was way more money in the Dota 2 tourney if LOL is more popular.

The winner of Dota 2 International took 5 million and Riot is only giving 1 million to the winner ????

What`s so great about this ugly a** looking game? I have sincerely nothing against e-sports, you could compare them to chess but why this game!?

i guess Dota 2 is where the money is at...

meh

spend some of it on better servers :D