LoL World Championships prize pool 2012-2024
In 2024, the League of Legends World Championship, which took place in the France, Germany, and the UK, had a prize pool of just under 2.23 million U.S. dollars. This marked a significant drop on the prize pool of 6.45 million U.S. dollars in 2018. The total winnings from the tournament in 2018 were the largest on record since the championship began in 2011, and the cumulative prize money since 2019 has totaled slightly above two million U.S. dollars annually. League of Legends is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game that pits opposing teams against each other to infiltrate their opponents’ base and destroy their “nexus”, a fortified structure within the base.
Who are the most prominent League of Legends players worldwide?
Looking at professional gamers, Sang Hyeok Lee was the highest-earning League of Legends player worldwide in 2024. Hailing from South Korea, Lee, who played under the moniker of Faker, had earned more than 1.8 million U.S. dollars competing at League of Legends tournaments throughout his eSports gaming career. Meanwhile, Caedrel was the most watched League of Legends streamer on Twitch worldwide, having accumulated more than 3.6 million viewership hours in the 30 days preceding December 2024. The British League of Legends streamer’s monthly viewership hours were about 25 percent higher than NoWay4u_Sir, who was second in the ranking.
How popular are MOBA games?
Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games are a widely played subgenre of strategy games which enable teams of players to compete against one another on a predetermined battlefield. Although they were not the first games within the genre, MOBA was popularized with titles such as League of Legends and Dota 2. In April 2024, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang was the most downloaded MOBA mobile gaming app worldwide, registering almost six million downloads. Meanwhile, Honor of Kings was the top-grossing mobile MOBA app worldwide, reporting an annual revenue of above 161 million U.S. dollars in April 2024.
