LoL Season 2 to Feature a $5 million Prize Pool

[risklight]

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Summoners!

With League of Legends fans setting viewership records in the Western world for the League of Legends Season One Championship, we're as excited as you are to kick Season Two off in style. As you've helped us become one of the most popular online titles to date, we thought it was only appropriate that League of Legends Season Two should boast the largest prize pool in eSports.

The League of Legends Season Two prize pool will feature a record setting $5 million prize pool!

The thriving eSports community surrounding League of Legends continues to grow at an incredible pace, and it?s the enthusiasm of competitors from across the globe that has engendered this special opportunity. And with League of Legends featured as an official title in such landmark eSports organizations as Major League Gaming, Electronic Sports League, and the World Cyber Games, this substantially increased prize pool is just the first glimpse into what we have planned for the upcoming season.

The money will be funding prizing for local, national and international tournaments to foster and grow the League of Legends eSports scene. For starters, the new season will feature weekly livestreams of our ongoing regional tournaments in North America, and across both European enviornments, so stay tuned for more information on these broadcasts and to see a lot more of League of Legends enthusiasts like Phreak, Rivington III and Nikasaur.

League of Legends Season Two is coming this fall, summoners! And with $5 million on the line this time around, the League of Legends eSports scene just got even more exciting!


Valve = 1m Tournament
Riot

[johnnygomezzz]

haha kontrahon jud ang dota 2

[xiao_xiao]

The money will be funding prizing for local, national and international tournaments to foster and grow the League of Legends eSports scene."

Learn to read what the man is saying before you assume that this is the grand prize for the finale, guys.

@risklight: YOU FAIL

[xiao_xiao]

a post from lololol forum

For anyone saying that this is one upping Dota 2, it's not. Dota 2 is giving $1 million to the winner of that tournament. This $5 million is the entire prize pool for season two. It will be split up among every regional, national, and international tournament that takes place. And not just for the winners, but second and third place prize money will be coming out of this as well.

Riot is announcing this to steal some hype from the Dota 2 tournament. But to compare this to Dota 2's 1m is apples to oranges. That $1m is being given to one winning team in one tournament. Compare that to Riot giving away $5m to multiple teams in multiple tournaments over the course of one year. Valve hasn't even announced a season for Dota 2, let alone that season's entire prize pool.

[Metz]

just curious, are they beating SC2, pro gaming prize pools?

and since sikat kaayo ni sila, naa sad sila nindut nga game coverage sa youtube?

[risklight]

The money will be funding prizing for local, national and international tournaments to foster and grow the League of Legends eSports scene."

Learn to read what the man is saying before you assume that this is the grand prize for the finale, guys.

@risklight: YOU FAIL

ha? why will i be a failure? we'll never know how many tournament LoL will have in season 2 and i dont even know how would they split that $5m they can go spend the 2.5m on tournaments going to the finale and make the finale pool prize 2.5m and i doubt valve will put out more than $1m in dota2 incoming tourney we all know that that $1m international tourney was just a marketing strategy to get the fanbase hyped

@ Metz

i think so cause from what i've heard on what the players got from dreamhack 4th/5th was = to the SC2 2nd prize

thought LoL is 5v5 and SC2 is 1v1

and about game coverage LoL viewers broke the stream view record at dreamhack and you can see dozen of game coverage on youtube and own3d

LoL is big in NA right now and its just getting bigger and bigger with them joining MLG Pro circuit