The team of 5 took home their share of a 6.7 million
dollar prize pool, and with the viewership speeding to terminal velocity, traditional sports executives are understandably picking up the phone.
The game has even announced its own eSports tournament back in February, which has a 75,000
dollar prize pool and has its live finals August 6 and 7 in Los Angeles.
Similarly, the Electronic Sports League, which holds massive gaming tournaments with million
dollar prize pools, has started randomly testing players for so - called «smart drugs» that may give e-athletes an edge over their non-doping opponents.
Not exact matches
That, in the worst scenario, they are fishing for
dollars, for bucks, to win bets and Calcutta
pools and cash
prizes.
For example, using the 3 million
dollars as the
prize pool, if only 3 books are borrowed in the entire KU service, then each borrow would receive 1 million
dollars.
In January 2015 the top teams from around the world will go to Atlanta to compete for a
prize pool of over 1.8 million
dollars and that is still growing.
Well, Street Fighter V launches in Feburary, and there's already half a million
dollars in the 2016
prize pool, so get practicing, and maybe we'll see you on the main stage next year.
Outside of the character tease, Capcom also announced a partnership with Sony to brnig CapcomCup back next year also featuring a
prize pool of half a million
dollars.
This weekend is the final of the first Call of Duty Championship in Los Angeles, where the world's best Call of Duty players have gathered on Treyarch's doorstep to prove their dominance and win a chunk of a million -
dollar grand
prize pool.
This follows several indicators that e-sports are becoming bigger than some traditional sports, with ESPN and BBC Three both showing high - profile tournaments and e-sports
prize pools now regularly falling into the millions of
dollars range.