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TI is a bit notorious because it's prize pool is massive compared to other esports. Winning TI puts someone's prize earnings past lifetime earnings of most othe

by __s 3y ago

TI is a bit notorious because it's prize pool is massive compared to other esports. Winning TI puts someone's prize earnings past lifetime earnings of most other top player's career prize earnings in other games https://liquipedia.net/dota2/The_International#Tournaments https://liquipedia.net/dota2/The_International#Tournaments https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Portal:Statistics/Player_earnings https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Portal:Statistics/Player_earnin... https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Winnings https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Winnings https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Portal:Statistics/Player_earnings https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Portal:Statistics/Player_ea...

bspammer 3y ago
To hammer it home even more: https://www.esportsearnings.com/players https://www.esportsearnings.com/players 21 dota players at the top before you get a different game (Fortnite)
- alargemoose 3y ago
  Wow, Not only are the top 21 dota 2 players, all but *4* of the top 50 earners are dota 2 players
  - tym0 3y ago
    And the top 5 earners for CS:GO are all Astralis players.
fragmede 3y ago
1st place in 2022 got $8,518,822! Nice!
q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Fascinating. This isn't a space I follow, but the data is eye-opening. To contextualize it for myself a bit more, I checked out annual earnings [1] instead of lifetime and compared it to the overall global list [2] of athletes across all sports. One interesting takeaway is that it looks like eSports are still a couple orders of magnitude away from breaking into that rarefied air — the top eSports athletes earned ~$1.8M over the last year, while the cutoff to make it in the list of top 50 global highest-earning athletes is ~$45M. It wouldn't surprise me to see eSports start making it up there over the next couple decades, though. The second interesting takeaway is that, for many athletes in the global top 50, their off-the-field earnings are a big part of their total. By contrast, endorsement deals for eSports athletes don't seem like much of a thing nowadays, other than the occasional team-up for a gaming mouse/keyboard. This seems like it'd be a growth area for eSports over the next couple decades, too. TL;DR: I wish there were some way to buy some ETFs or stake some athletes in the eSports space. It seems like it has a lot of growth ahead of it still. [1]: https://www.esportsearnings.com/players/highest-earnings-last-365-days https://www.esportsearnings.com/players/highest-earnings-las... [2]: https://www.forbes.com/lists/athletes/ https://www.forbes.com/lists/athletes/
- Huppie 3y ago
  You've probably missed that the former website only lists winnings and does not include the player salaries and other income like from streaming. The numbers are significantly higher for the top players, but sure enough still a lot lower than 'regular' athletes.
- namtab00 3y ago
  There you go: VanEck Video Gaming and eSports UCITS (ESP0) http://www.investing.com/etfs/vaneck-vectors-videogameesports-gbp http://www.investing.com/etfs/vaneck-vectors-videogameesport...
kleinsch 3y ago
This is only prize earnings, important to keep in mind that Dota heavily weights prizes from tournaments. Highest total prize earnings on that chart is $7M, Faker pulls in $5M/year in salary alone.

by __s 3y ago

bspammer 3y ago

To hammer it home even more: https://www.esportsearnings.com/players https://www.esportsearnings.com/players 21 dota players at the top before you get a different game (Fortnite)

alargemoose 3y ago
Wow, Not only are the top 21 dota 2 players, all but *4* of the top 50 earners are dota 2 players
- tym0 3y ago
  And the top 5 earners for CS:GO are all Astralis players.

fragmede 3y ago

1st place in 2022 got $8,518,822! Nice!

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago

Fascinating. This isn't a space I follow, but the data is eye-opening. To contextualize it for myself a bit more, I checked out annual earnings [1] instead of lifetime and compared it to the overall global list [2] of athletes across all sports. One interesting takeaway is that it looks like eSports are still a couple orders of magnitude away from breaking into that rarefied air — the top eSports athletes earned ~$1.8M over the last year, while the cutoff to make it in the list of top 50 global highest-earning athletes is ~$45M. It wouldn't surprise me to see eSports start making it up there over the next couple decades, though. The second interesting takeaway is that, for many athletes in the global top 50, their off-the-field earnings are a big part of their total. By contrast, endorsement deals for eSports athletes don't seem like much of a thing nowadays, other than the occasional team-up for a gaming mouse/keyboard. This seems like it'd be a growth area for eSports over the next couple decades, too. TL;DR: I wish there were some way to buy some ETFs or stake some athletes in the eSports space. It seems like it has a lot of growth ahead of it still. [1]: https://www.esportsearnings.com/players/highest-earnings-last-365-days https://www.esportsearnings.com/players/highest-earnings-las... [2]: https://www.forbes.com/lists/athletes/ https://www.forbes.com/lists/athletes/

Huppie 3y ago
You've probably missed that the former website only lists winnings and does not include the player salaries and other income like from streaming. The numbers are significantly higher for the top players, but sure enough still a lot lower than 'regular' athletes.
namtab00 3y ago
There you go: VanEck Video Gaming and eSports UCITS (ESP0) http://www.investing.com/etfs/vaneck-vectors-videogameesports-gbp http://www.investing.com/etfs/vaneck-vectors-videogameesport...

kleinsch 3y ago

This is only prize earnings, important to keep in mind that Dota heavily weights prizes from tournaments. Highest total prize earnings on that chart is $7M, Faker pulls in $5M/year in salary alone.