Magic's all time money leader is Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa (PVDDR). He is a hall of fame player who has been playing professionally for 19 years. He's won just o

Magic's all time money leader is Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa (PVDDR). He is a hall of fame player who has been playing professionally for 19 years. He's won just over a million dollars in that time frame. That's the equivalent of making around $57k a year. They're doubling the prize purse for the Pro Tour this year. So, at best, someone could make $2 million with the same results over the same time frame. Red Bull Untapped had a prize purse of $200,000. That's $50,000 less than the old Pro Tour had. Not to mention, that's the entire purse. If you won an offline qualifier and the finals, you would have won $30k. For contrast, the NFL pays $75,000 to each player on the losing team in the Super Bowl. That's outside of their normal salary. That's money paid to the players by the league itself (from a pool of money collected from the member clubs). And playoff bonuses go all the way down. If you're a wild card team who loses in the wild card round, that's $37,500 per player. Being the 7th seed and getting bounced in the first game of the NFL playoffs pays better than winning the entire Red Bull series. And that's ignoring that the NFL playoff bonuses are pure extra. There is not "real money" there. It's at best amateur league.