Hey Hypetrain, first things first, I wanna say how awesome its been to watch the both you go from knowing nothing about the game of League of Legends, to building a genuine curiosity and about the game, and even enjoy the community that has supported this game since 2009. League of legends is celebrating its 10th year, and the game has changed so much since day one. Now, the new Worlds song should be premiering any day now for the 2019 world championship, and Im sure you are just as excited as all of us to see what they do this year both in animation and music. You mentioned that it would be fun to go to the finals in 2019 and I must say its something that you need to witness. If you are a sports fan of any kind, you need to feel the atmosphere at an event like this, its hard not to get excited even if you know very little about the game. I would love to see you guys maybe do a vlog of you two going, even if you just stay for the opening ceremony, but I know thats asking a lot. Regardless, thank you guys for being a great dynamic duo to watch these with, I and many others have loved not just your league reactions, but all the videos you put out. Cheers!
That's very nice of you thanks 👍 I could see us doing a blog/vlog of some sort showcasing our experience of the finals. As a sports fan I could certainly appreciate the atmosphere, and I'm sure kev would love it as well! And going through this journey of better understanding lol with all of you guys and girls is a fantastic privilege. Long may it continue 🙏-dave
I really love videos like this. Even though I am not in to LoL myself, I study esports as part of my job, and it never ceases to amaze me the excitement that esports generates. I also study traditional sports as part of my job, and while the excitement of being in a big stadium for a sporting event is massive (even if you aren't an avid follower of the particular sport), there is something different about esports. Something about knowing that you can engage with this sport in a social and interactive way that is like no other.
Yeah I get that too, maybe more can relate to what's going on for the players and also play the same kinds of games.. I know I'm not a football follower but world cups have that magic that draws u in.. Gaming just seems to do this better😊.... Kev
this is just a world championship that you are watching, they are leagues in every region for whole year, its similar to football except it's got world championship every year.
@@HypeTrain-Follow unless you are in perfect condition for your whole career, pros in lol is really hard even faker said that if he had a son he woudn't let him turn pro
Full time it is. Compared to a regular full time job its nearly twice the workload. Many pro players play up to 14 to 16 hours per day nearly everyday. Its not a job to envy.
Tomorrow we get the 2019 draw show so we know which teams are going against each other for the first stages of the world championship I know for sure I’m not gonna miss a single match for this year. Also the world championship is in EU this year so most likely cinemas in the uk will host viewing parties for the finals like they’ve done for the past few years or so. On a side note the 2018 prize pool was 6.4 million dollars split between 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 1st place winning over 2.4 million
The prize money isnt the real thing, its the title that is what you really want to desire, players like theshy and UZI makes way more money then the prize pool.
Another prize that is kinda... priceless? Lol, is that the team that wins the world championship gets a set of skins for the characters they choose, and the skins are based on the players themselves and wear the team colors and banners. For instance last year IG won worlds, and TheShy, one of the players, chose Fiora as his character, and so a few months later Fiora got the "IG Fiora" skin designed after TheShy, and the character has his signature too. That means that the world champions get forever immortalized inside the game with skins for their favorite characters.
The prize money really isn't much since you split it with 5 to 6 people, players make most of their money when getting signed by big teams AND streaming
@@HypeTrain-Follow Also, these players get paid salaries. Winning in the big tournaments is really for glory and a really nice bonus at the end of the day.
tickets to finals in paris sold out in 4 min... site that sold the tickets registered 600 000 users trying to get tickets ! ( arena holds 25000) my friend managed to get 3 tickets so im going this year ! so hype !
League is like soccer , you can be the best solo palyer like Ronaldo . But youll never win a worldcup without a decent team. That trophy wieghts 70 pounds. Schalke04 has a League team, and the prizepool is a lil bit over 5mio USD. Tho DOTA has 10miollion.
I cant tell the 2019 payout for the winners, but last year during the 2018 finals when IG (Invictus Gaming) won they had $2,418,750.00 to split between 6 people, while the second team got $870,750.00 and third $451,500.00
@@HypeTrain-Follow League of Legends is past the point that these cash rewards are the end goal. Understand that most of the people you saw there(remember, this IS the world championship, just getting there ain't easy) are paid 6 figure salaries, sponsorships, high stream numbers, etc.(the midlaner caps who was in this final would in 2019 move to G2, I don't need to explain to you what the second best midlaner at the time is going to be asking. He knows his value) BUT, more importantly, the people who didn't make it still earned a decent living. The average salary in the north American league is 305k/year. This has TRIPPLED since 2017. The better players will be earning north of 500k+ with the likes of Flash probably over 1 million. You can have tournament where only the top 32 earns anything and the number 1 earns it big, but that's not the goal here of league of legends, their goal is a sustainable league.
It's an event that you cant miss. There are rumors Lindsey Stirling will be featured in the opening ceremony this year. And Riot also signed a contract with LV(the massive fashion brand)
People were so excited about 2018 league world cup, It's the first time Korea team didn't get to the semi final. Legends were fallen and new stars are rasing.
You guys should watch and react to their "Eyes on" series. Starting with Eyes on Detroit | 2019 LCS Summer Finals (Team Liquid vs Cloud9), it gives you one part of the many story lines that these teams have throughout part of the year.
I've read the total prize pool for 2018 wc we're about 26 million euro. Dunno what each individual team got for placing but if the total was 26m I'd estimate the winner got about 6-8 million or so.
Ofc this is total.. The team they play for take most of it and alot goes to salery for crew etc I'd imagine. The top players probably earn up towards a million each or so I've heard.
It’s not just weeks that these players prepare, its well over a YEAR. So 1 season lasts for the whole year, and each season these teams play tournament after tournament to increase their trophy count and raise name recognition, and after a year of tournaments they hope to qualify for the worlds stage. Some of these players have been playing on the competitive stage for years and years, Faker (team SKT), widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, has three won three world championships, the only other person to have this many championship titles being one of his former teammates. A team called Echo Fox (owned and managed by Rick Fox, a former NBA champion) sold their slot at the LCS (not worlds but a still a really big and important tournament) sold their slot in the tournament for over $1 million. So just for a slot in the tournament was that much, imagine the prize pool.
It's easy to forget or ignore the real grind that these players had to go through, in order to win the ultimate prize. We've been requested a few times now to take a look at a video showcasing the rise of Faker. Sounds like a good time to do so, especially with the championship upon us - dave
Prize pool wise, it's not that big, they get to split roughly several hundred thousand USD each. Which to top players in Asia, their annual salary could easily top. (Easily 6 figures, while some top players reportedly making close to, if not, passed the 7 figure)
As a pro player i can tell u a little bit about the payment. In the north america league the minimum payout of a year is 75,000 dollars while the most of the players get around 320,000. In the league of legend europe championship the minimum payout is 60,000 yuro while most of the players get around 230,500 yuro. There are players around the world that actually get more then 2mil per year (uzi a chinese super star get around the 3-4 milion dollars per year while faker the best player in the world get paid even more altough i do not know the exact numbers).
The top players earn from 100k to 1M a year but this only happens on the tops teams on the top regions which are Europe, Korea, China and North America and they get a huge bonus for getting on the final stages of this but it goes to the team not the players I think pricepool for the tournament was like +6 million dollars and it aumented by people purchasing a skin in game.
If you are interested in watching some more competitive League of Legends highlights I would recommend: "Things That Faker Does: Win Impossible Fight" also known as "Faker Zed vs Zed" and "xPeke backdoor vs. SK Gaming". Fun Fact: This play is known as "The xPeke" in honor to what happen in that tournament against SK, such a shame he doesn't play anymore. Fun Fact 2: Faker is still a God.
the winner gets $1 million dollars you guys should really think about going to the paris finals. The host country changes every year so it won't be back to Europe for awhile. It's China next year and in Los Angeles the year after so you'd have to wait minimum 3 years for it to return.
We'd love to but we can't afford it. Plus we have a lack of passport and holiday remaining at work 😢 if the channel keeps growing at the rate it is maybe we'll go to the one in L. A 🤑 - dave
@@HypeTrain-Follow yea I understand. When you guys do decide to go, Worlds tickets aren't too expensive all things considered. For example the best tickets this year at Finals are only 80 euros, you can get in for as little as 40. Travel and lodging will undoubtedly be the major bulk of costs. Anyways, hope you guys get to go someday. Enjoy the videos a lot :)
Faker, has been featured in Forbes magazine and likened to Michael Jordan. I know many players make over 200k/year and Faker has got to be on the top of those numbers. China spend millions importing korean players to up the strength of the region. I believe Brazil did too. This game is kinda a big deal right now. I know more and more colleges are offering scholarships for it as it's a sport here in the USA now.
Nice video again! i recommend something next from blizzard like *Starcraft 2 Legacy of the void, Heart of the storm, Wings of liberty!* Those trailers are short but they tell you nice stuff about all three races in game.
HypeTrain Looking forward to it! Theyve also done a video called The Story of Worlds which gives u the history of how the LoL World championship came about n how far its come
"Best player in lol history" In my opinion, we will see if he can keep up with that title. Caps (and nemesis on a good day) can easily compete with him and a team is just as strong as their weakest member
@@gruenewaffel1726 When I said best player in League History no one can deny that. Faker has won 3 world championships, won MSI twice as well as LCK 8 times. No one is even close apart from Bengi to that track record
@@gruenewaffel1726 This SKT squad is also the strongest version of SKT to date with all of Fakers team mates being able to carry if they have to. Khan, Clid, Teddy along side Haru & Mata.
The 2018 Worlds Series was probably the best ever, except for the anticlimactic ending. Invictus Gaming absolutely _annihilated_ Fnatic in the Grand Final, winning 3-0, and it wasn't even very impressive. While IG looked like the strongest team in the world, Fnatic didn't look even _remotely_ like the 2nd strongest- they must have cracked under the pressure because they basically rolled over and died, playing a completely ordinary match against a team who were simply better than them in every way, without pulling out any radical secret weapons or trying anything to counter IG's strategies. After all the hype and buildup, it was an immensely deflating end to what was otherwise a spectacular event.
the prize pool for last year was $6,450,000 first place team got $2,418,750. 2nd place was $870,750 and it keeps being cut by half and so on, tho lately riots started adding in a system where if you buy a thing called a Championship skin for worlds 12.5$ of that skins earnings gets added to the pool as well.. like last years was Championship khazix which that skin was pretty interesting as well since they added in a skin color variant for each of the teams
@@HypeTrain-Follow ikr, i still personally cant wait untill this years worlds. ontop of that leagues 10th anniversary is coming up so hopefully they do something interesting for that
3:19 he's the guy called Ambition and yes, he's the guy in Rise music video
The pric pool in the 2018 Worlds was more than 6.000.000$
Hey Hypetrain, first things first, I wanna say how awesome its been to watch the both you go from knowing nothing about the game of League of Legends, to building a genuine curiosity and about the game, and even enjoy the community that has supported this game since 2009. League of legends is celebrating its 10th year, and the game has changed so much since day one.
Now, the new Worlds song should be premiering any day now for the 2019 world championship, and Im sure you are just as excited as all of us to see what they do this year both in animation and music. You mentioned that it would be fun to go to the finals in 2019 and I must say its something that you need to witness. If you are a sports fan of any kind, you need to feel the atmosphere at an event like this, its hard not to get excited even if you know very little about the game. I would love to see you guys maybe do a vlog of you two going, even if you just stay for the opening ceremony, but I know thats asking a lot. Regardless, thank you guys for being a great dynamic duo to watch these with, I and many others have loved not just your league reactions, but all the videos you put out. Cheers!
That's very nice of you thanks 👍 I could see us doing a blog/vlog of some sort showcasing our experience of the finals. As a sports fan I could certainly appreciate the atmosphere, and I'm sure kev would love it as well! And going through this journey of better understanding lol with all of you guys and girls is a fantastic privilege. Long may it continue 🙏-dave
I really love videos like this. Even though I am not in to LoL myself, I study esports as part of my job, and it never ceases to amaze me the excitement that esports generates. I also study traditional sports as part of my job, and while the excitement of being in a big stadium for a sporting event is massive (even if you aren't an avid follower of the particular sport), there is something different about esports. Something about knowing that you can engage with this sport in a social and interactive way that is like no other.
Yeah I get that too, maybe more can relate to what's going on for the players and also play the same kinds of games.. I know I'm not a football follower but world cups have that magic that draws u in.. Gaming just seems to do this better😊.... Kev
average salary is around 320k $ in NA, while top players get around 1 mil a year
this is just a world championship that you are watching, they are leagues in every region for whole year, its similar to football except it's got world championship every year.
A nice full time job to have then 😉
@@HypeTrain-Follow unless you are in perfect condition for your whole career, pros in lol is really hard even faker said that if he had a son he woudn't let him turn pro
Full time it is. Compared to a regular full time job its nearly twice the workload. Many pro players play up to 14 to 16 hours per day nearly everyday. Its not a job to envy.
True 👍
Tomorrow we get the 2019 draw show so we know which teams are going against each other for the first stages of the world championship I know for sure I’m not gonna miss a single match for this year. Also the world championship is in EU this year so most likely cinemas in the uk will host viewing parties for the finals like they’ve done for the past few years or so.
On a side note the 2018 prize pool was 6.4 million dollars split between 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 1st place winning over 2.4 million
The prize money isnt the real thing, its the title that is what you really want to desire, players like theshy and UZI makes way more money then the prize pool.
Another prize that is kinda... priceless? Lol, is that the team that wins the world championship gets a set of skins for the characters they choose, and the skins are based on the players themselves and wear the team colors and banners.
For instance last year IG won worlds, and TheShy, one of the players, chose Fiora as his character, and so a few months later Fiora got the "IG Fiora" skin designed after TheShy, and the character has his signature too.
That means that the world champions get forever immortalized inside the game with skins for their favorite characters.
Ning choose Camille, TheShy picked Fiora LUL
@@dhax_3559 Yes! Yes, I mixed them up, will edit it right away
Theshy chose riven but riot denied him so he chose fiora
The prize money really isn't much since you split it with 5 to 6 people, players make most of their money when getting signed by big teams AND streaming
At least they get to lift the trophy though 😉-dave
@@HypeTrain-Follow Also, these players get paid salaries. Winning in the big tournaments is really for glory and a really nice bonus at the end of the day.
but for the EU and NA the teams also get a regular income which is huge in the esports field.
Good choice! Try to watch all the years from the first one to the last. Quite good
I recommend worlds moments and memories 2015
tickets to finals in paris sold out in 4 min... site that sold the tickets registered 600 000 users trying to get tickets ! ( arena holds 25000)
my friend managed to get 3 tickets so im going this year ! so hype !
You what!? 4 minutes 😮 now that's impressive... Hope you enjoy - dave
League is like soccer , you can be the best solo palyer like Ronaldo . But youll never win a worldcup without a decent team.
That trophy wieghts 70 pounds.
Schalke04 has a League team, and the prizepool is a lil bit over 5mio USD. Tho DOTA has 10miollion.
Nice trophy.. Nice prize too 😊.. Makes telling your kids to get off the computer harder lol😂... Kev
I cant tell the 2019 payout for the winners, but last year during the 2018 finals when IG (Invictus Gaming) won they had $2,418,750.00 to split between 6 people, while the second team got $870,750.00 and third $451,500.00
Blooming eck! Not to shabby then 😳
@@HypeTrain-Follow League of Legends is past the point that these cash rewards are the end goal.
Understand that most of the people you saw there(remember, this IS the world championship, just getting there ain't easy) are paid 6 figure salaries, sponsorships, high stream numbers, etc.(the midlaner caps who was in this final would in 2019 move to G2, I don't need to explain to you what the second best midlaner at the time is going to be asking. He knows his value)
BUT, more importantly, the people who didn't make it still earned a decent living. The average salary in the north American league is 305k/year.
This has TRIPPLED since 2017.
The better players will be earning north of 500k+ with the likes of Flash probably over 1 million. You can have tournament where only the top 32 earns anything and the number 1 earns it big, but that's not the goal here of league of legends, their goal is a sustainable league.
@@Londronable faker has a contract of 3 million so I guess he might be a good player idk
It's an event that you cant miss. There are rumors Lindsey Stirling will be featured in the opening ceremony this year. And Riot also signed a contract with LV(the massive fashion brand)
Oohhhhh... Interesting 😉-dave
People were so excited about 2018 league world cup, It's the first time Korea team didn't get to the semi final. Legends were fallen and new stars are rasing.
You guys should watch and react to their "Eyes on" series. Starting with Eyes on Detroit | 2019 LCS Summer Finals (Team Liquid vs Cloud9), it gives you one part of the many story lines that these teams have throughout part of the year.
do the 2019 worlds moments and memories
I've read the total prize pool for 2018 wc we're about 26 million euro.
Dunno what each individual team got for placing but if the total was 26m I'd estimate the winner got about 6-8 million or so.
Ofc this is total.. The team they play for take most of it and alot goes to salery for crew etc I'd imagine.
The top players probably earn up towards a million each or so I've heard.
It is a very nice career if you are a top player that's for sure👍... Kev
@@HypeTrain-Follow yea, a million euro for playing games, I'd take that 🤣
It’s not just weeks that these players prepare, its well over a YEAR. So 1 season lasts for the whole year, and each season these teams play tournament after tournament to increase their trophy count and raise name recognition, and after a year of tournaments they hope to qualify for the worlds stage. Some of these players have been playing on the competitive stage for years and years, Faker (team SKT), widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, has three won three world championships, the only other person to have this many championship titles being one of his former teammates. A team called Echo Fox (owned and managed by Rick Fox, a former NBA champion) sold their slot at the LCS (not worlds but a still a really big and important tournament) sold their slot in the tournament for over $1 million. So just for a slot in the tournament was that much, imagine the prize pool.
It's easy to forget or ignore the real grind that these players had to go through, in order to win the ultimate prize. We've been requested a few times now to take a look at a video showcasing the rise of Faker. Sounds like a good time to do so, especially with the championship upon us - dave
you might wanna watch "The story of worlds", some moments of first worlds till 2017
Prize pool wise, it's not that big, they get to split roughly several hundred thousand USD each.
Which to top players in Asia, their annual salary could easily top. (Easily 6 figures, while some top players reportedly making close to, if not, passed the 7 figure)
As a pro player i can tell u a little bit about the payment. In the north america league the minimum payout of a year is 75,000 dollars while the most of the players get around 320,000. In the league of legend europe championship the minimum payout is 60,000 yuro while most of the players get around 230,500 yuro. There are players around the world that actually get more then 2mil per year (uzi a chinese super star get around the 3-4 milion dollars per year while faker the best player in the world get paid even more altough i do not know the exact numbers).
Thx for the insight! Sounds like we need to get a new job 😃-dave
The top players earn from 100k to 1M a year but this only happens on the tops teams on the top regions which are Europe, Korea, China and North America and they get a huge bonus for getting on the final stages of this but it goes to the team not the players I think pricepool for the tournament was like +6 million dollars and it aumented by people purchasing a skin in game.
If you are interested in watching some more competitive League of Legends highlights I would recommend: "Things That Faker Does: Win Impossible Fight" also known as "Faker Zed vs Zed" and "xPeke backdoor vs. SK Gaming".
Fun Fact: This play is known as "The xPeke" in honor to what happen in that tournament against SK, such a shame he doesn't play anymore.
Fun Fact 2: Faker is still a God.
C9 underdog story was the best part of 2018 worst team to the only us seed eliminating some of the best teams
to getting eliminated in the quickest international bo5 ever, only for that record to be beaten by G2 at MSI Finals :D
React to world group draw pick
the winner gets $1 million dollars
you guys should really think about going to the paris finals. The host country changes every year so it won't be back to Europe for awhile. It's China next year and in Los Angeles the year after so you'd have to wait minimum 3 years for it to return.
We'd love to but we can't afford it. Plus we have a lack of passport and holiday remaining at work 😢 if the channel keeps growing at the rate it is maybe we'll go to the one in L. A 🤑 - dave
@@HypeTrain-Follow yea I understand. When you guys do decide to go, Worlds tickets aren't too expensive all things considered. For example the best tickets this year at Finals are only 80 euros, you can get in for as little as 40. Travel and lodging will undoubtedly be the major bulk of costs. Anyways, hope you guys get to go someday. Enjoy the videos a lot :)
Faker, has been featured in Forbes magazine and likened to Michael Jordan. I know many players make over 200k/year and Faker has got to be on the top of those numbers. China spend millions importing korean players to up the strength of the region. I believe Brazil did too. This game is kinda a big deal right now. I know more and more colleges are offering scholarships for it as it's a sport here in the USA now.
It's sure growing and becoming a force to be reckoned with...its nice to see esports classed as a real job now.. Kev 😁👍
Just by looking at the earnings from tournaments Faker is at 64th spot.
Nice video again! i recommend something next from blizzard like *Starcraft 2 Legacy of the void, Heart of the storm, Wings of liberty!* Those trailers are short but they tell you nice stuff about all three races in game.
They are on our list to do, just not got round to them yet 👍
@@HypeTrain-Follow woooooo
3:30 Vietnam No.1 :))
So... when can we expect to see you guys to play league? 😜
That's something even we can't say lol😁.. So busy making videos 😂... Kev
Hey guys great vid, could you please react to The Story of Faker by theScoreEsports? Shows u the history of the best player in lol history
Sounds like a plan. Wouldn't mind knowing a little more about one of the best lol players of all time! - dave
HypeTrain Looking forward to it! Theyve also done a video called The Story of Worlds which gives u the history of how the LoL World championship came about n how far its come
"Best player in lol history" In my opinion, we will see if he can keep up with that title. Caps (and nemesis on a good day) can easily compete with him and a team is just as strong as their weakest member
@@gruenewaffel1726 When I said best player in League History no one can deny that. Faker has won 3 world championships, won MSI twice as well as LCK 8 times. No one is even close apart from Bengi to that track record
@@gruenewaffel1726 This SKT squad is also the strongest version of SKT to date with all of Fakers team mates being able to carry if they have to. Khan, Clid, Teddy along side Haru & Mata.
The 2018 Worlds Series was probably the best ever, except for the anticlimactic ending. Invictus Gaming absolutely _annihilated_ Fnatic in the Grand Final, winning 3-0, and it wasn't even very impressive. While IG looked like the strongest team in the world, Fnatic didn't look even _remotely_ like the 2nd strongest- they must have cracked under the pressure because they basically rolled over and died, playing a completely ordinary match against a team who were simply better than them in every way, without pulling out any radical secret weapons or trying anything to counter IG's strategies. After all the hype and buildup, it was an immensely deflating end to what was otherwise a spectacular event.
LpL has the biggest payout. makes fortnite payout look lie pocket change.
the prize pool for last year was $6,450,000 first place team got $2,418,750. 2nd place was $870,750 and it keeps being cut by half and so on, tho lately riots started adding in a system where if you buy a thing called a Championship skin for worlds 12.5$ of that skins earnings gets added to the pool as well.. like last years was Championship khazix which that skin was pretty interesting as well since they added in a skin color variant for each of the teams
Not a bad days work then 😅-dave
@@HypeTrain-Follow ikr, i still personally cant wait untill this years worlds. ontop of that leagues 10th anniversary is coming up so hopefully they do something interesting for that