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The biggest and most iconic esports tournaments to date The biggest and most iconic esports tournaments to date
Esports tournaments are big and some can even draw the attention of people who don’t even follow the games being played. Not only that but some of these events can bestow the winners millions of dollars for a few days’ work. Here are some of the biggest and most iconic events in esports today.
- Honor of Kings World Champion Cup
The
Honor of Kings
championship doesn’t get its due because it’s a mobile game, but its enormous player base in Asia makes it one of the most fiercely competitive events in esports. Honor of Kings was introduced in 2015, and has really taken off in China. That makes the Honor of Kings Champion Cup one of the biggest worldwide, with tens of millions hoping to land on the stage.
Fortnite is one of the biggest video games in the world and the Fortnite World Cup in 2019 was its coming out party as an esport. The event garnered enormous mainstream attention as Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf
won the grand prize of $3 million.
The International is the season-ending event in Dota 2 and its crowd-funded prize pool has made it the envy of the esports world. The first installment of The International came in 2011 with a $1.6 million prize pool but in the years since, its price tag has multiplied dozens of times over. After an issue organizing the event in Stockholm,
the location is now changed
to Bucharest, Romania with $40 million on the line.
The
Evolution Championship
has long been North America’s premier fighting game tournament with a history that dates back to the mid-1990s. The tournament has an open format allowing anyone to participate and it has a lineup of games that changes annually.
- League of Legends World Championship
The biggest game in esports also hosts the biggest event in esports. With around 4 million viewers in
2019, the League of Legends World Championship is a grandiose event. The atmosphere within the arena is what makes it stand out even more and Riot Games has been pulling out all the stops in terms of making this tournament a bona fide event.
How to start betting money on esports events
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to esports events, with Counter-Strike’s Katowice and Cologne events, the StarCraft World Championship, and Overwatch League Grand Finals all having their own unique histories. You can
sign up at a real money online casino
today to start betting on these events.
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