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Originally Posted by chemgear
The prize pool for the Invitational has been growing like crazy.
2015 - $18+ million
2014 - $11 million
2013 - $3 million
The Masters golf tournament for comparison just hit $10 million for the first time ever.
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Well if you think about the amount of people who golf versus the amount of people who play video games, there's probably a massively larger number of gamers in the world (in the entire world) than there are golfers. That means there are probably a lot more people who are willing to pay to see the best of the best play video games versus the best of the best play golf.
It makes sense that now as people who grow up with these games start to earn a decent wage and can spend more money on entertainment, that the prize pool for these tournaments outpaces most other sports.
The interesting thing will be if the e-games (or whatever they're called) can ever outpace sports like Racing, Football or Hockey, which get a lot of viewers who don't even participate in their perspective sports.