Dota 2 players earned millions in 2024: total amount revealed

Dota 2 players have had the best year in esports, as they have earned $22.68 million in prize tournaments more than other heroes in the industry.

The Esports Charts portal posted such a statistic on its website.

Dota 2 was on the first position in terms of nft tournament prizes distributed. The ESL series had tournaments that had a total of 1 million US dollars as a prize for the excelled teams. Besides, the Riyadh masters 2024 prize pool was estimating 5 million US dollars. And at the The International 2024 (13) teams earned approximately two and a half million dollars. All in all it exceeded $22.68 million.

Credit: Esports Charts

Coming in second was the first person shooter game Counter-Strike 2. But in terms of total prize money, Valve’s Counter-Strike 2 tournaments generally received less than Dota 2 but were held more often. Standing out were the majors, including PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024. The mega prizes were $2.5 million for $1.25 million award for each tournament. The total prize pool for Counter-Strike 2 amounted to over 22.67 million US dollars.

Place number three Honor of Kings prize pool estimated at USD 20.61 million. Places in the tight race were taken by PUBG Mobile ($16.26million) and Fortnite with earnings of about ($13.35million). Leader of the all-time graph in terms of a number of viewers the League of Legends reached the 7th position with 9.23 million earning.

Fans were stirred with the recent news of Anton “Dyrachyo” Shkredov’s return to Dota 2 after a pause, and to top it all he made the announcement himself.