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If there was ever a contest between an average job and eSports in respects to how much both can make, eSports wouldn’t leave a chance for average jobs. Similarly, if you think about the future of certain jobs and professions, you should certainly be betting on eSports to keep the crown.
Video games and their respective industries continue to impressively skyrocket in growth exceeding expectations held by professionals and casuals. With growth substantially boosted thanks to the rise of the internet and many different platforms being friendly towards gaming content, gaming careers are better than ever. To be fair, eSports has always been a thing, dating back to small competitions held for many arcade games back in the 90s and 2000s. Currently eSports are well known for being the career for exceptionally great players typically playing online competitive games.
By representing the advertiser on their public appearances and player jerseys, as well as instructing the players to represent the brand in ways such as using the products and linking the products on their public pages. Any drips of the prize pools players make are also shared with their team, and the fact that some teams provide housing for the players to live together alone saves the players some money to spend, as well as simple salaries provided by teams, usually not low at all.
Speaking of public pages, almost all eSport players have live stream sessions hosted on different platforms such as Twitch.tv, Mixer, and YouTube. Having gained popularity for appearing in different tournaments in front of the whole crowd they bypass the pains of growing an audience to watch. Not only does their exceptional gameplay keep at least some viewers, but then they can also start to grow their personal streams independently. A great example is Overwatch’s favorite Canadian – xQc outrivaling the necessity to continue grinding hours on improving at the game, when he can just show his funny and entertaining personality to the world, play whatever he wants and make life-changing sums of money via simple fan support.
Dota 2’s top 100 earners have earned just over 85% of the total prize money, which means going big matters with over 28 players enjoying their net worth at $1,000,000 or more.As for countries, China has taken home over 41.7% of the money the top 100 players alone have made, the USA has only taken the next biggest chunk of 10.6%, though not seeming like a lot, three players from the USA alone make up the top 5 players in earnings. Universe, ppd, and Fear made over $2,000,000 each largely due to the success of their team, although this goes to show that the biggest role in your earnings is your skill level.
Unlike Dota 2, League of Legends isn’t so top-heavy, as the top 100 players have only made around 50% of the total prize money. Almost 40% of it is going again to one country, Korea, followed by China, the USA, and Taiwan, though it shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the huge impact Korea has made as a country on the international eSports game, they’re usually considered as the most dominant country in many games regardless of the games’ styles.
Onto the most diverse game of the three, CS:GO, of the top 100 earners Sweden makes around 16%, they are closely followed by the USA, Denmark, Poland, and France. However, Poland owns the top 5 spots on the list of top earners in CS:GO by one team, Virtus. Pro, with combined lifetime winnings of more than $2,300,000 between them. Generally speaking, China dominates the top earners in all games chart, followed by Korea, the USA, and Sweden.
In conclusion, with prize pools of over $25,000,000 at the Dota 2 International 2018 Championship and prize pool numbers for both League of Legends and Counterstrike: Global Offensive tournaments on the rise, it’s safe to say that the future of eSports is continuing to grow to incredible heights.
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