Following the conclusion of the BLAST Premier Fall CS:GO event, esports earnings have surpassed $1 billion all time.
According to Esports Earnings, esports prize pools have now crossed $1 billion since the tracking of such stats began following the close of CS:GO's BLAST Premier.
Esports titles have done so across more than 47,000 tournaments, 548 different competitive titles tracked, and over 1,400 teams.
Who are the richest teams, players, and games?
The top 25 earning players are nearly all Dota 2 players thanks in large part to The International's record-breaking prize pools each year since the inception of its crowd-funding. Johan "N0tail" Sundstein remains esports' highest earning by a wide margin at $7,183,917.80. The highest-earning non-Dota player is Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf, the Fortnite World Cup champion who took home a $3 million prize on his own for winning the event.
Dota 2 has given away over a quarter of a billion dollars in prizing since its inception as well, thanks to TI. The next closest title is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive at $126,581,511.37 across 5985 tournaments. Fortnite, League of Legends, and PUBG round out the top 5 for games tracked, though the latter two have yet to break $100 million given away in prizing.
Team Liquid is the richest team by winnings in esports with over $37 million. Their next closest competition is OG with $35,629,723.59, with Evil Geniuses trailing them by nearly $10 million.
Esports prize pools took a small step down over the past two years, perhaps due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. There was $162,673,745.58 given away as prizes so far in 2021, far surpassing the total of $123,654,491.25 given away in 2020. Both of these numbers pale in comparison to 2019, where $237,686,917.78 was awarded. It is possible that 2019 was an outlier though, as the trend has continued upwards compared to 2018 and 2017, where numbers were below the past two years.
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