Top 10 Biggest eSports Competitions
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- Top 10 Biggest eSports Competitions
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01:27 #9. ESL One
02:19 #8. Global Starcrarft II League
03:07 #7. Call of Duty Championship
03:56 #6. Major League Gaming
04:44 #5. Smite World Championship
05:23 #4. Evolution Championship Series
06:04 #3, #2 & #1:????
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i play league but i would definitely buy a ticket for the international just to get a glimpse of lord gaben
Ebolaids Praise unto his Holy Name. May you be given good sales and pro skills. Gaben.
only here to confirm ti is number one
haha same here
Benjamin Cohen why do u even bother to comment rofl.
Earth O' Pedia cause this is America n ill do whatever the fuck I want
el alcazar did i shoot her in the head lol. No I said "Fucking Asians". But i mean if ud like to try, im here
You said this is america, I do whatever I want. So from this statement I guessed you can do whatever you want in america.
Damn no mention of csgo major tournaments or quakecon feelsbadman
They mentioned ESL and Dreamhack which have both previously hosted CSGO majors...
Luka Delic nah, neither of those show up in the google search, I guess they don't include those.
But COD does
Luka Delic but the picture is of Coldzera
its because Gaben plays a lot of dota 2
Umm..... ESL one?
It'd be weird if The International wasn't #1
thought the same thing lmao
Considering they are counting price pools, Yes. Still think The league worlds should have been higher up considering the amount of people wiewing it.
It's understandable that they didn't include them but the Dota 2 Majors also could take 2nd place here.
WTF WHY WASNT LEAGUE OF LEGENDS FIRST BULLSHIT
sherlock homeboy bait?
Dota2 players knew #1 before watching the video.
Yeah😎
Yup
Yasss
hail lord gaben
i doesn't need to watch to know that THE INTERNATIONAL is still and only esport where the prize pool insanely huge
they are, but considering who owns and how Riot is managed, the cuts for the tournaments themselves are going to be really small in comparison to the ones on dota.
lee ricafort okau, we'll see about that this year.
of course it is, 70% of it is player-given ROFL
Riot earns money selling champions
Marvin Marv the FIWC (FIFA Interactive World Cup) has a yearly prize pool of $1mil and the trophy if presented by a pro soccer player
20 million prize pool, we have a clear winner.
I'm glad the SWC was so high on the list it had an amazing amount of viewers this year
MLG has also featured CS:GO in MLG Columbus 2016 btw
After watching True sight .
i became fan of dota 2 even tho i havent played it in my life. 😊 litreally chills watching those moments
Last year's EVO's Smash Bros Melee was unique. Specially the top 8 matches and the fact that it broke the record of the numbers of entrants
When they mentioned Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat being at Evo but neither of the smash games. *Triggered*
If liking esports has taught me anything, it's that. the comments are going to cancer.
From DeeTown Worlds was ranked #3 we may be in for a shitstorm.
and e-sports communities are cancer too
oh so you mention EVO without mentioning SSBM or Smash 4 which had the 3rd and 2nd most entrants lol
The League Worlds weren't just in LA. The group stage was in SF, the Quarters were in the Chicago Theater, the Semis were at Madison Square Garden in NY, and the FINALS (what was shown there was just the finals(kinda weird, but they did all of that for 1 Bo5)) were in the Staples Center in LA.
I'd like to see the top 10 online racing competitions!! Bet there's a top of different racing leagues out there!!
Yup its confirmed DOTA 2 has the best tournaments
That's true dota 2 is the best game in the world!
8:38 the night that i havent slept :,))
I like how the footage they showed of the SWC was casted by the best castor they ever had
They have to be specific in these kind of listings. When you say biggest competitions are we talking about prize pool? Or Viewership and recognization?
Halo 2/3 were the best MLG years
Shit, is there still halo on events? I fuckin miss this game :C
OscillatoR Yes, weekly on Twitch, with viewership peaking highest viewers in a channel on Twitch during Finals.
Oh, u know what channel? Thank you by the way
OscillatoR Halo 5 catagory; ESL_Halo always reruns their tournaments. Many random people cast the online events, and many of the pros and ams stream the events that are not LAN.
yep
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Whenever I watch esports top tens is when I want to see the best communities in esports, smash brothers 4 and smash brothers melee
next top 10 days of the week plz
Hearthstone and Esports don't belong in the same sentence
Koro sensei yameteeeee
it does just your brains isnt big enough to understand
Or you are just too dumb to count it as Esport
TI & Major are no. 1 & 2 respectively in this top 10 !
Feelsbadman!
do a top 10 matches (in specific esport in a certain year)
Woah. Woah. Woah. Keep the Gatorade. You'll need some other form of hydration later in the tournament.
Where’s RLCS? That should be at least in the honourable mentions
It's by far the easiest esport to watch as a casual esports fan. I've tried watching the other ones and I can't get into it.
Not even an honorable mention to the Pokemon World Championships?
I thought pokemon was dead by now
Casual
They didn't even mention super smash bros melee and smash 4 in evo. The 2nd and 3rd biggest games at the tournament. Thanks watchmojo.
Ah, I really miss World Cyber Game ... and the theme music is still epic
the international = world cup of esports
last time I was this early everyone thought Hillary would win
EVO and International will always be my favorite.
Weird how you didnt mention how Super Smash Melee had the biggest crowd at Evo for the last 2 years, and also had the second highest participation
Y'all talk about Evo but not smash?
Here to watch the LoL fanbois cry about this list lmao
Can't wait to see LoL's crowd funding prize pool this year to wipe off Dota2 fanboy's only smile
LoL players are so predictable...
iHaveGrudgeAgainstUT do your best son... it will be fun... xD
Reddey lol i play league but why wouldnt i acknowledge that another game has bigger events. its just stupid how people like you just think in a box and then write a comment about it. if you are not mature enough to respect other games and their players then you probably shouldnt play at all. i knew that dota and dreamhack are bigger than league worlds and i dont mind. bcs in the end it comes down to which game you like the most.
Only smile? Yes, Dota has a much larger prize pools than LoL, but that's not the only thing. Dota is a more complex (Creep/ hero denies, high ground/low ground, more activatable items rather than passive increases, less spammable spells...) and therefore skillful game to play, was around before LoL and has all the heroes/champions available for free. If you really think the prize pool is the only thing Dota is superior in then I'd suggest you do some research before posting again.
The Internation 10 - Held 2 weeks ago in Romania was 40M total price pool.
Winners take home 18.2M
Love how much they talk about the amount of money but a football player makes more than double that in a year. And he doesn't have to divide the winnings among his team.
Well this is esports something that has only gained traction these 5-10 years, football has been around for more than a century.
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Do a list on the top 10 most professionally played video games (most people playing/interested)
please more esports related content (btw evo has smash Bros which is a big part)
There was literally no mention of smash at anything.So irritating :/
FGC = best Community.
Rajivrocks Ltd. Fighting games are hardest to master.
565Jackson141 naw
Yeah they are.
Rajivrocks Ltd. FGC FGC!!!!
I honestly don't know how fighting games aren't the biggest spectator games in the world. I mean, pretty much everyone understands guys trying to hit and not get hit, even if you think a DP is only something that happens in porn. But to me a lot of the more popular games are just a bunch of tiny people running around.
You guys missed Halo within MLG (it started MLG), Counterstrike in general, Unreal, and even GamesDoneQuick, which arguably is an eSport.
EE and TK Breezy commentating in this video is sick and I'm kind of disappointed smash wasn't mentioned of being at EVO even though we were the second most entered game.
Cs:go hello?
You use a csgo player in the thumbnail then have no cs clips
Salmanella Sam what's his name
Giddy Kapa coldzera
Giddy Kapa why?
Just wondering
2016 - LoL World Champion - 43 million unique viewers and US$ 6.7 million.
2016 - Dota 2 The International - 5 million viewers and US$ 19.1 million
How is the International bigger? They have 3x the prize pool, however Worlds have 8x the viewership.
Siegfried Z dota 2 has a bigger prizepool and reasonable amount viewers
viewers STREAMING. dota viewers dont fucking watch on streams. we watch in-game. its not video, we acutally load up the live matches and render them in our game client. Most of us watch this way. ALso viewership and prize aren't even what counts. the dota production value of the event blows league out of the water
Derek Furst The statistics counts both in game and streamed viewers.
Also the production value of Worlds is quite higher than TI. Just take the 2014 World Championship held in Korea, the finals, for example, we're held in thee largest football stadium of Korea, the same that held a 2012 World Cup Semifinals.
Also LoL's Worlds is actually an INTERNATIONAL event being held in many cities and countries, with over 20 different language official streams. While the international is just an American event with international teams.
Siegfried Z but where gonna have the Dota Asia Championship, Kiev Major.. We just had Shanghai Major, Manila Major, and Frankfurt Major... So tell me, are those places found in the US?
I'm not talking about regional championships, all e-sports have tons of those. The comparision is between LoL's World Championship and Dota 2's The International.
Smite World Championships this year were pretty awesome.
TFW I didn't recognize most of these because i only play Smash and Pokken
Rocket league championships?
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I wish esl was its own professional gaming league cause that would be sick af
Happy to see multiplex Fighting games event :)
I hope I see smash melee
totally 100% agree. TI for the win~
never knew you had two channels
super smash bros had a huge audience in evo at least mention it
eSports are cool except for splatoon which is just little kids playing paintball
Bryson Blount its intended that why. its actually cool how it got competitive.. cod tho
it's fun game, before fire nation attacked.
More adults play Splatoon than COD lol
Bryson Blount It's a third person shooter, with really free movement, making your inputs really important. It has some really creative focus points, such as turf war not being about getting kills, but covering ground. Rank modes offer a more technical way to play. And at high level, communicating with your team, and knowing the map is ettential. The game even has gear that affects your abilities, and the weapons comes in set, you can't pick a sub or special weapon manually, so it's really important what set you pick.
Or if you wanna be quick about it, ur opinion is misleading and ignorant, since you clearly have not done the slightest of research.
I swear if Halo isnt on this list...
List is CANCER..again...
halo ain't that big is it? compared to the rest on the list.
Arvid Rehn it had a $2.5 million prize pool last year
MYTHICALTWINKIE Uh Halo wasn't huge back then it was recognized but wasn't huge and especially now Halo isn't even talked about
I would say it falls under MLG right? I think watchmojo omitted it though
well, atleast its better than yr previous top 10 esports games vid.
dat coldzeraa thumbnail :D
any competitions not dominated by Asians?
Dota 2
Dota 2 boston major has no asians in semi's
Alex Hennigh CSGO
The number 1 in the list (Dota) has the western team always dominating tournaments.
Alex Hennigh dota2, each year the champion alternate between the east and the western team. Previous 2 years was E.G from US, last year was Wings Gaming from China.
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Salty Memes System fellsbadman
What's the name of the song playing in the background?
Add the Splatoon 2 invitational finals from e3
wait.. isn't legue of legends world the biggest event? not price wise... but most viewers with like more than the NBA finals and all that?
Because Dota has Gaben
sure, and huge community fundings. but not as many views as Worlds.
That statistics was way back. Riot isnt even releasing any stats in viewers because it is declining. The International was the most anticipated event every year because of its ridiculous prizepool.
i think they actually did release the view count, as it was bigger than something like the NBA finals.
the international have more views but league will get there when they eventually get a bigger venue and prize pool
wait a minute who made this list ? Worlds is the biggest esports event no competition.
ehem no it is not...
the internationial is far bigger
DisreS worlds had 34 million unique viewers !
And the international had 20 mill + and has been setting records every year for highest prize pool in esports since it was first created.
Flamesnz 20 is not 34 and Worlds was also on tv so the viership was even higher !
And by 20+ million I mean the prize pool btw.
They released this video just as Eleague 2017 CS:GO Major was hosted... that tournament broke all streaming and viewership records, only falling to the International and LoL Worlds due to its weak prize pool.
the jumping double from cold
DOTA>LOL aka dota tutorial
Hong Lit Shen PLS I PLAY BOTH! LOL IS JUST FAST PACED AND DOTA IS JUST LONGER TO PLAY. BOTH HAVE UNIQUE PLAY STYLES. I ONLY LIKE LOL WITH THR GRAPHICS AND DOTA FOR THE GAMEPLAY.
Ne Matz did i mention that dota mod was made years before LoL was introduced? Who said dota 2 was copying LOL? It's the other way around
Desmond Hong .shut the f*ck up b*tch. I'm a LoL player also I love LoL so much but let me tell you the number 1 Esports is Starcraft 1 and 2.
Not sure what your criteria is but your failure to note that league of legends has the largest viewership and has had the largest number of viewers at one time for a single event. Not to mention selling out huge arenas including a football world cup stadium.
Instead you mention prizepools and repeat a clip from 2009 and show a few seconds of no action from 2016. Very poor showing and seems very biased when all the others had action clips. I usually rate these vids and although I'm not a fan of riot games or the community you can't pretend the facts dont exist when creating a video for your viewers.
Maybe include a couple of the more relevant facts next time.
(If it wasn't clear I'm not arguing about what rank it should be, just that the clips and descriptions for LoL were terribly done)
Granted Worlds has more viewership, but The International is genre and industry defining. If you want to take on additional factors you have to consider that too. The International (and by extension Dota 2) sets the standards, that Worlds - despite its reach - has yet just attempted to emulate.
This is a show bro. The best show is the one that gets more people.
Marks point is that they didn't mention LOL world championship's immense viewer/spectator numbers. I agree with him. These facts would indeed be relevant in a list of biggest esport competitions!
Mark Aled Most of those are kids anyway...
Sean Pangilinan not just kids.annoying kids
can you do a video on e sports competitions for solo ps4 gamers
i know it doesnt have enough merit yet but i hope R6ProLeague can one day make it to this list
wait who host R6 tournaments?
Jason M ESL I think, it may be funded and hosted by Ubisoft for all I know tho.
HOW THE fuck isnt LoL #1?
***** i mean, LoL is the most popular one.
but but... Valve throws all their money into it so it can be "bigger" than Riots championship for league since they are rival games.
That's where you're wrong babe.
Dota players have to buy "battlepass" in dota 2 which are created by valve and only 25-35% of the money goes to the event itself so Valve does not throw all their money into it; we do.
Valve only puts in 1.6 million in the price pool, the rest is contributed by the players.
You didn´t mention melee in evo segment, that is is always main stage
There's people who are good at video games and there's people who are REALLY good at video games.. That's why there's eSports tournaments. But my favorite is EVO
Prize pool really shouldn't matter as much as they are factoring it in here. It doesn't matter how much money you give away, what matters is viewers and popularity. While the international is probably still #2 in that regard, nothing is more popular and garners more viewers world wide than LOL Worlds
Bushviper lmfao. suck it boi
"Biggest eSport Tournament" you can cry all you want about viewership but what you need to consider is the event itself and how it is marketed. Valve had the balls to make an event with a high prizepool which increases every year and so does the production value. Majority of the viewers were also big contributors of the event in contrast to Lol's audience which just watch casually. Basically, Valve knows how to make a good event and profit off it while Riot just wants the profit
Are you really saying League production is shit? LoL championship literally had a flying dragon in the arena, live performances by quality artists, along with other very cool visuals. The most I've seen from other tournaments is shiny lights, including Dota tournaments. Just because their prizepool is higher, doesn't mean their production is going to be more. If anything, it makes it worse? Less money, less to spend on other things like visuals, artists, group performances, different broadcast teams. I think there is no doubt, Worlds is the esport event to beat when it comes to popularity / entertainment value.
LMAO, proof that League of Legends sucks.... DOTO is betta
It seems like all these events have nothing but kids in them. After turning 32 I couldn't see myself entering in any of these events.
slowed response time..or you could call it whatever you like..this is the reason even in the Olympics you do not see many 40 year old competitors..
HaHaHa, I'm still at least 8 years away from the aging 40 mark. I see your point but the difference is still minute. There could be enough 30+ players that could hold their own but none are present. This may be do to obligations of business or family. Though seeing the realm consisting mostly of 28 and under makes it seem juvenile. I admit being younger has the advantage of speed but the older would balance it out with tact. I think the reasoning of not seeing older people on the sceen is not due to failure but one of revenue.
John Huffy virtus pro's taz in csgo is a good example for your speaking.
Maybe not the biggest, but Hearthstone's SeatStory Cup is the comfiest one :)
Sports....LMAO
Reggaetonaldo e-sports is its own word
says the guy who watches formula one racing on espn !
League of Legends World Championship is the best !
Aïmane Lamghari international is bigger than lol worlds and they have bigger price pools eventought dota2 is crap af compared to league
In your wet dreams. haha
Jesus Senpai lol more like lol is crap compared to dota2
Jesus Senpai the only reason why Dota has a bigger prize pool is because they take a % of all the in game purchases and put that towards the prize pool for the International. League has always gotten all the money from Riot, who set a $1,000,000 prize. It was only this past year, the 2016 Worlds, that near the end of the year they announced all purchases from that point on would have a % of the money going to the Prize Pool. And they ended up getting $5,000,000 in the few months before the championship. If they had been doing it the whole time, imagine how much money they would make the Prize Pool
Salt Taster found the salty dota2 player. Leagues my fav game but im not gunna talk shit about Dota, dont take the rivalry too far
Shout out to the boys who watched it to see the dota 2 part. FeelsGoodMan
can you make annotations for the list and times
Dota2 > LOL!~!
FALCON PUNCHING THE COMPETEITITOENT LUL NICE ONE MOJO
Every time I see Dota gameplay I can't stop laughing lmao
Imo the most skill based Esports are starcraft broodwar, starcraft 2, dota, overwatch
Yo what about the Paladins thingy from the people who made smite
Idk I thought the overwatch World Cup would be here
Evo has smash brothers too
There should be one bout racing too !!
No CS Major. Eleague in Atlanta is happening rn for CS for 2mil
This year it's 40 million.. Any dota fan here??
This list shouldn't be titled "Top 10 Biggest eSports Competitions" but "Top 10 Biggest eSports Competition Prize Pools," because they're entirely different things. Judging by viewership numbers would be a more accurate "biggest" indicator than prize pool
35million this Year on TI9
and this is only 25% of the total earnings of battlepass
All hail Lord Gaben