Topic: Now I know why eSports prize pools go over millions of dollars! - page 2. (Read 999 times)

8 hours to become a pro player in what e-sport? if this would be Dota 2 that wouldn't suffice. Playing Dota 2 to hone your skills will take you a lot of time and playing 8 hours won't be enough. It will take your months to years of experience to become good with it depending on the role that you're mastering. There's specific role for each game where you can practice and improve it. I'm practicing to become support and increasing your MMR will notice you by some teams.

Yeah more than 8 hours to be a professional player.
More time they spend but as long as they are happy with what they are doing then its good . More time = pro player + more salary for them .

I will connect this topic to Ausubel's Meaningful Theory wherein we connect the knowledge to our previous prior knowledge. We tend to watch the livestream and bet because we have prior knowledge about DOTA. Since it was famous before, many players knew it already. That is why esports has high prize pools because many players know the game and how the games play. As a spectator who have knowledge in esports, I will always bet based upon my observation.

I'm a big CSGO spectator, player and bettor but I was far more involved when csgolounge was still a thing and skins wasnt so controversial.  Unfortunately because of modern economics, just about everything easily tradable turns into a prototype currency and skins was being used as much.   Its been locked down alot, probably benefits crypto use but a bit sad for me as I found it useful for betting lots of games with skins I didnt even want, so free fun basically  

Overall I know CSGO population has grown alot and also as a spectator event its much bigger then five years ago.  Afaik thats true of many esports, I'am biased towards thinking CSGO has a natural peak/flow narrative to its game and a fairly basic concept of 'go blow up their stuff'    I can be lost on DOTA or other games if I fail to appreciate the advantage to each facet, they could be a bit more noob friendly.    
    Thats my argument for just about any part of fast growing industry, look after your new people if you want good growth


I just checked now and its not there and it was my screen cap.  I have an extension that tries to link through to blockchains to give detailed breakdown on addresses more easily, a good thing to have usually for info.   Nothing resembles ETH address on his page, weird.   Hopefully it wasnt a scam comment, sometimes on twitter they try to insist they are running a contest of some kind and block the OP to stop them seeing it on their comments.

[I double checked, ironically its just saying I have no info on this guy heh]

I am just glad to see that there are so many TI followers and Dota2 players here. Otherwise it is always LoL or Overwatch or some other western shit. I wonder if Starcraft could be brought into prominence again through steam..

Damn, Miracle- always getting on to the top he never fails to amaze me everytime he plays either majors or minors tournament. Probably their manager has the biggest smile always whenever his team compete and wins. They might get to the top if they have a secret plan to play and i've seen some quite changes on his playing style since they lost on TI8.

Really incredibly big news for the esports market to have someone such as 'Magic' congratulate them to his 4.78m twitter followers!
Its just too bad that his twitter account doesnt have the ETHER logo such as this pic shows 

First,Congrats to Liquid and they do really deserve it yet this team is excellent when it comes to neither majors and minors tourney and

about on the thing you are saying here,here some interesting stuff to know about supporting esports from famous personalities. https://medium.com/@breakthrough_lab/celebrity-esports-investors-you-didnt-know-about-eb9a8c395292

This is pretty big news, Liquid just won a big prize pool run by Intel for about a decade now.   Thats some major sponsorship and over such a long time, such major backing is a large part why esports is possible :




I know Shaq owns a share of an esports team, not certain about others but theres a few big players in the industry for sports who are also willing to back the growth of esports audiences as well

How exactly is your statement true? The richest esports players are Sumail and Saahil. Both are Dota2 players and they got enough money in tourneys because of steam and dota2's micro-economy. But even their combined earnings are lower than $6.5million that is literally nothing compared to what any average regular sports icon gets paid on a yearly basis.

I saw.a video of esports team that they practice for almost 12hrs a day learning the different strategies to win. That is a lot of time to spend and could get boring sometimes because all they just do is play. They don't play just because for the money prize but they have dedication to what they've been doing.

It has been but still, it's connected to the gamers and their unique lifestyle.

I think it's not because of the house or the comfortable chair or what not, but it's because they need to. It's their job, and they do need to practice every time. It's not just that, the streaming service they could give has already a lot of money to consider

Maybe they have bonuses, especially if they have a large amount of prize to their team and management. It's nice to think about how their lifestyle, I don't know how hard it is.

This is a little bit out topic in line on whats being asked but i would join up the conversation about chairs and gaming salary.

Players do have that place or headquarters where they do used to play and they are really being compensated with that excluding some sponsorship

with some companies thats why they can last that long on gaming hours.Training and becoming pro's yet management of that team does basically know

that it can pay-up possibly to win on tournaments.So in shorts its still a business but success would vary or depend on the player/team itself.

I'm pretty sure it takes more than 8 hours to be a pro player man!
It's more like players are honing their skills from since they were kids in order to reach a pro level.

Well, I know that they play in a gaming house and just stay there. They receive compensation with what they are doing. Monthly salary maybe? Additional with the streaming that they are doing and just keep on practicing. I'm just amazed by their will because personally, I wouldn't be able to do that anymore (growing old and of course, not a professional player). I think you would have passion with the game if you are really good at it, I think that's pretty standard for them.

I think Gaming Chairs should be bought if you really want a comfortable experience with your gaming. $399 USD for a great gaming chair would be nice if you would really use it a lot. I got mine around $100, and I think it's okay for a casual gamer like me.

Not just the salaries, but the sponsors are also great.

Some of the known players in a streaming site are Shroud, Ninja, DrDisrespect, they have sponsors and merchs that make them more money. Pewdiepie also is a gamer, a content creator with a huge number of the fanbase and huge profit out of merchs and sponsor deals. Those parents that say you will achieve nothing out of these games, well, how about now? Right?

I know it already but the crowdfunding part is the thing that I don't know to be honest. That is why eSport games like Dota 2, LOL, Mobile Legends wants you to use your money to buy some amazing items on the game.


I have played some eSports games already and the players spend more than 8 hours playing just to be a pro player. Yes the money they got is way higher compare to a regular employee but the time they spend is longer. Overall, it is worth it because you can be popular around the world and at the same time get a huge salary.

The similarities are that they practice a lot yet the difference is that the other one is on the field shedding blood and sweat just to attain the level of mastery that they need. Unless from people who are just facing a computer while taking it all easy without putting a lot of effort to sweat. Although the stress level of both esports and real sports are almost the same when it comes to teamwork.

More than likely, there are days that they do not sleep just to play continuously.
And also, there's a reason why there are gaming chairs and pretty expensive than regular office chair. 
You should have passion in this kind of sport, otherwise, you can't withstand the long hours of playing.

It will be, in fact there are a lot of companies, big companies that invest in this. A legend player is said to already invested his money in an esports team, I am so amazed reading that. I think more and more people will be going and be doing this kind of job in the future. While the internet is with us, people will make money for it. From content creators to professional gamers.