8. PUBG Global Championship 2019 - Prize Pool: $4 Million. If you weren't aware of what was ahead, you'd probably think this is huge. Just wait and see. | © Tencent
7. 2020 Call of Duty League Championship - Prize Pool: $4.5 Million. Call of Duty added a few extra wads of cash into their prize pool compared to the Chinese competitors. | © Activision
6. 2020 Honor of Kings World Champion Cup - Prize Pool: $4.6 Million. Honor of Kings is the most popular mobile MOBA and has even beaten Wild Rift... but both belong to Tencent anyway, so who cares really? | © Tencent
5. LoL Worlds 2018 – Prize Pool: $6.45 Million. Okay, this is where the money sums are starting to increase. We're just wondering why the prize pool in 2019 and 2020 was lower than before? | © Riot Games
4. PUBG Global Invitational.S 2021 – Prize Pool: $7.1 Million. If these sums keep going up, we'll have to check just how much money Tencent is making! Just add together all of these prize pools, and you can't help but wonder how much they make! | © Tencent
3. Fortnite Worldcup 2019 – Prize Pool: $30.4 Million. Welcome to the big leagues. Now look here, over 30 million dollars and only third place? What can beat that? | © Epic Games
2. The International 2020 - Prize Pool: $34.3 Million. The International is known to break prize pool records. The best part? It's mostly all due to the community and their crowdfunding efforts. | © Valve
1. The International 21 – Prize Pool: $40.02 Million. Of course, Valve would only beat itself in this category. This insane prize pool of over 40 million dollars is thanks to the fans. | © Valve
We all love to watch esports and cheer for our favorite teams, right? We wait the whole year for the big championships, the huge events and sometimes, during all the hype and excitement, we forget that the teams competing aren't just doing it for honor, no there is something much bigger at stake – prize money.
So we've decided to take a peek at some of the biggest prize pools in esports history.
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