It goes to show that if you pump enough money into something, it will become a thing. Who do you think is pumping money into e-sports? The biggest event last y

It goes to show that if you pump enough money into something, it will become a thing. Who do you think is pumping money into e-sports? The biggest event last year, The International 2017, had $24.7M prize pool. The first place prize was $10M -- $2M per player. The prize pool was funded by the fans themselves -- the organizing company started with putting $1.6M with their own cash, and the remaining $23M was collected from Dota 2 fans, who bought Battle Pass and various other items associated with it. In fact, only 25% of battle pass revenue went into prize pool -- this means that fans were spent almost $100M on this, and this doesn't even include the tickets to the actual event. This is real business with real revenues, not some fake bullshit pumped by some arcane wealth.