Topic: What are the biggest competitive eSports? Do you ever place eSport bets? - page 2. (Read 194 times)

Nothing beats out Dota 2 when we do talk about prizepool on tournaments which does signify on how well known this game and next with Fortnite and LOL.
These numbers might be not updated https://www.esportsearnings.com/tournaments but it does shows on how great these games are.

On the question if i do ever placed on sports bet? Then yes it is, ive been putting bets specially on Dota2 International or when this event happens or do see some
good opportunity to place bets.

Been doing that even crypto sportsbook werent still available.

Yes, the prize pool of it is hundreds of millions of dollars during the main tournament.

Just an addition, it's Dota 2. Dota and Dota 2 are the same games but have differences in terms of graphics. Dota 2 is own by Valve and Dota (1) was the old version of it. The person who has continued developing maps for Dota (1) before has been hired by them, that's Icefrog.  
But he's focused now on Dota 2 since he's hired by Valve and the tournament that gives that huge prize pool happens in Dota 2.

REALLY? Despite of being popular of DotA's tournaments, being covered by tons of news on both traditional media and social media, and its constantly growing community, you are not aware that it is still a thing? DotA cannot be replaced by LoL, not by an inch. Its complexity remains difficult and strategies uncountable. Yes, Warcraft remains its lore of course. What only changed is the graphics and the overall gameplay. Go check it out again!

I often place bets on DotA. 5% of my profit goes to betting on a team that would play in near days and seemed to have a chance of winning (obviously). Betting in it is still popular tho, that's why there are still platforms for eSports betting that hasn't ever closed on operating.

DoTA and CSGO without a doubt. I did place some bets on a few dota games when dendi and NaVI was a thing and I am pretty sure that was nearly 10 years ago. Amazing how the time flies by... I remember the international 2013 like it happened yesterday.

I have never been a fan of betting eSPORTS. Feels like it would be too easy for teams to take a dive and rig games to me. I think this happens in all sports personally so gotta be careful on a big game.

Really? Dota is still a thing? I thought it was completely repplaced by LOL. I played Dota during the glory Warcraft 3 times. Is it now stiill integrated in the Warcraft universe or is it now independend like LOL?

The Esports industry is already popular even prior to the pandemic. It's been several years already that everyone is riding the wave in Esports. It was become the talk of the town due to the insane prize pool in every big event.

Yes, I followed some tournaments before but my online betting experience here is just in a casual or moderate tier. I'm more active at physical gambling within our place, especially at Dota 2, and LOL but that was halted due to pandemic.

It seems that eSports are getting more popular all the time, especially with Covid and social distancing, so I thought of putting together a little snapshot of which games have the biggest competition winnings. It's a bit of a leap from competition winnings to biggest betting markets, but it gives an idea of where the most money is involved. Does anyone here follow these games closely, or has anyone made a decent amount from eSports betting? It seems like the market will keep growing and if you're able to identify consistent players/teams then there is quite a fortune ready to win.

1. DOTA (Defense of the Ancients) leads the way by a large margin. It currently holds the top 5 spots for largest competition prizes ever. If you look at the top 100 largest prizes for this game alone it totals a massive $171,313,243.05

2. Fortnite has a huge player base around the world and this has helped it to generate some impressive prize pools. The Fortnite World Cup Finals 2019 Solo & Duo prizes came to $15,287,500 and $15,100,000 respectively.

3. League of Legends is another game that has been around for a long time and gathered a big following. The LoL World Championship winnings pot averaged $5,488,989 in the three years between 2016 and 2018.

At this point the variety of games gets a little more diluted.

4. Arena of Valor came up with $4,606,400 for participants, with 12 teams competing and 60 players total.

5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare offered $4,600,000 in prizes during the 2020 Championship

6. Player Unknown's Battlegrounds managed an epic $4,080,000 up for grabs during the Global Championship 2019 competition.

7. Overwatch has a large group of players, with 77 entrants in 8 teams competing for a $3,050,000 potential payout during the 2020 Playoff Grand Finals.

8. Rainbow Six Siege offered up $3,000,000 during the "Six Invitational 2020" and had 80 players battling it out.

9. SMITE was able to put together $2,612,994.19 in prizes for their league all the way back in 2015.

10. Halo 5: Guardians rounds out the top ten with $2,500,000 that was up for grabs during their 2016 Halo World Championship battle.

For reference, this list was compiled with the help of the ranking table at https://www.esportsearnings.com/tournaments