The Dota 2 teams have gained more than $2,000,000 prize money in the year 2012. Though The International 2 of course was the dominating tournament, $470,000 came from non-Valve tournaments.
Invictus Gaming with its five players Zhou, Ferrari, YYF, ChuaN and Faith has gained the most prize money of all Dota 2 in year 2012. The International with its million Dollar prize of course gave the that title to the Chinese team. They lead the table of summed up and to USD converted prize money from Dota 2 tournaments in 2012. Apart from The International, iG also had success in G-1 League and the World Cyber Games, summing up to $1,026,400 of total prize money.
iG is followed by the TI2 runner-ups Na'Vi and LGD, with $323,840 and $197,300 total prize money in the last year. Best team in this ranking without any winnings from Seattle is mTw, shortly followed by Empire and fnatic. The ranking is conducted by 174 final placements in tournament and leagues by teams in 2012 which were awarded with prize money. Not the composition of a roster was decisive, but the tag the team played under. Single showmatches were not included.
Prize Money by Team (incl. TI2) - Top 10
TeamUSD-eq.
iG$1,026,400
Na'Vi$323,840
LGD$197,300
DK$99,100
Orange$41,410
Zenith$37,910
EHOME$35,660
mTw$28,238
Empire$28,106
fnatic$26,030
Total$2,069,324
Complete, unformatted list: TeamUSD-eq.
iG 1026400
NaVi 323840
LGD 197300
DK 99100
Orange 41410
Zenith 37910
EHOME 35660
mTw 28238
Empire 28106
fnatic 26030
TongFu 25000
EG 19790
mouz 19670
NoTidehunter 19528
CLG 15640
coL 12420
Potm Bottom 10660
dignitas 10400
MUFC 10160
Moscow 5 7650
Darer 7168
Virtus.Pro 5428
Quantic 5366
WhA 5016
Shiba 5000
DevilMice 4000
NEXT.kz 3716
aL 3000
paiN 3000
Copenhagen Wolves 2640
Kaipi 2608
GD B-Team 2500
Pulse 2000
4FC 2000
Wzriv Paketi 2000
dd 1980
Infused 1650
LGD.int 1500
N9 1500
GamersLeague 1320
Zero 1320
My Intent 1250
It's Gosu 1160
zNation 1056
Keita 1010
aQuarium 1000
MYM 1000
iCCup 750
iLuminate 750
ex-GoSu 660
Rojak 660
TTB 660
99% 660
SM 660
Nex Impetus 528
SQL 500
SGC 500
Josh Tabak 500
Experience 264
DTS 250
fnaticNA 132
Without The International tournament, the field is much more heterogeneous, and got more weight on the western scene. Team EG, mousesports and NoTidehunter all almost scratched the value of $20,000 prize money outside of Seattle. Best Asian team outside of TI2 was LGD.cn with huge success at G-1 League and The Asia in the last quarter of 2012.
The prize money list gives an overview about the minimum of prize money earned by the teams in the whole year. With the large amount of tournaments throughout the year, the Valve-hosted and sponsored tournament The International accounted for 77% of the total prize money. This means Valve awarded 3.4 times as much money as the other tournaments combined, down from a ratio of around 25 in year 2011. Na'Vi alone got every sixth Dollar of the non-TI2 prize money, iG about half of the total prize money.
Prize Money by Team (excl. TI2) - Top 10
TeamUSD-eq.
Na'Vi$73,840
LGD$47,300
mTw$28,238
Empire$28,106
iG$26,400
fnatic$26,030
EG$19,790
mouz$19,670
NoTidehunter$19,528
DK$19,100
Total$469,324
When divided by months, the strong growth of Dota 2 throughout the year is clearly visible. Tournaments are considered only by their ending date, as that is the date when the winners are determined. While the first quarter of the year barely breached the $30,000, this was distributed within a week on average in both November and December.
If the level of the fourth quarter can be hold for the whole year 2013, third-party prize money would be doubled again compared to 2012 and breach the million Dollar barrier. Overall the November with G-1 League in China and DreamHack Winter in Europe set the record for non-TI prize money in 2012.
2013 could also bring even more growth as tournaments like GEST and SMM still can make the switch over from DotA to Dota 2 with their regular tournaments.
Prize Money by Month
MonthUSD-eq.
January$0
February$2,640
March$28,000
April$16,660
May$7,044
June$37,744
July$53,784
August$45,496
September$1,608,336
October$23,156
November$124,176
December$122,288
If these numbers from Dota 2 in 2012 are compared to other eSport games, the Top 200 players of Starcraft 2 have earned prize money worth $3,350,000 in 2012 according to SC2earnings.com, League of Legends also had a massive $2,000,000 Riot-sponsored Season 2 final in Los Angeles this year, but you would need the all-time winnings of the three most successful quartets in CS 1.6 combined to surpass the winnings of iG in this year according to Thorin's take.
Explanation USD-eq.: Means "US Dollar Equivalent", to make different currencies comparable. Conversion rates: 1 EUR = 1.32 USD-eq., 1 USD = 1 USD-eq., 1 SEK = 0.15 USD-eq., 1 RMB = 0.16 USD-eq.
Invictus Gaming with its five players Zhou, Ferrari, YYF, ChuaN and Faith has gained the most prize money of all Dota 2 in year 2012. The International with its million Dollar prize of course gave the that title to the Chinese team. They lead the table of summed up and to USD converted prize money from Dota 2 tournaments in 2012. Apart from The International, iG also had success in G-1 League and the World Cyber Games, summing up to $1,026,400 of total prize money.
iG is followed by the TI2 runner-ups Na'Vi and LGD, with $323,840 and $197,300 total prize money in the last year. Best team in this ranking without any winnings from Seattle is mTw, shortly followed by Empire and fnatic. The ranking is conducted by 174 final placements in tournament and leagues by teams in 2012 which were awarded with prize money. Not the composition of a roster was decisive, but the tag the team played under. Single showmatches were not included.
Prize Money by Team (incl. TI2) - Top 10
TeamUSD-eq.
iG$1,026,400
Na'Vi$323,840
LGD$197,300
DK$99,100
Orange$41,410
Zenith$37,910
EHOME$35,660
mTw$28,238
Empire$28,106
fnatic$26,030
Total$2,069,324
Complete, unformatted list: TeamUSD-eq.
iG 1026400
NaVi 323840
LGD 197300
DK 99100
Orange 41410
Zenith 37910
EHOME 35660
mTw 28238
Empire 28106
fnatic 26030
TongFu 25000
EG 19790
mouz 19670
NoTidehunter 19528
CLG 15640
coL 12420
Potm Bottom 10660
dignitas 10400
MUFC 10160
Moscow 5 7650
Darer 7168
Virtus.Pro 5428
Quantic 5366
WhA 5016
Shiba 5000
DevilMice 4000
NEXT.kz 3716
aL 3000
paiN 3000
Copenhagen Wolves 2640
Kaipi 2608
GD B-Team 2500
Pulse 2000
4FC 2000
Wzriv Paketi 2000
dd 1980
Infused 1650
LGD.int 1500
N9 1500
GamersLeague 1320
Zero 1320
My Intent 1250
It's Gosu 1160
zNation 1056
Keita 1010
aQuarium 1000
MYM 1000
iCCup 750
iLuminate 750
ex-GoSu 660
Rojak 660
TTB 660
99% 660
SM 660
Nex Impetus 528
SQL 500
SGC 500
Josh Tabak 500
Experience 264
DTS 250
fnaticNA 132
Without The International tournament, the field is much more heterogeneous, and got more weight on the western scene. Team EG, mousesports and NoTidehunter all almost scratched the value of $20,000 prize money outside of Seattle. Best Asian team outside of TI2 was LGD.cn with huge success at G-1 League and The Asia in the last quarter of 2012.
The prize money list gives an overview about the minimum of prize money earned by the teams in the whole year. With the large amount of tournaments throughout the year, the Valve-hosted and sponsored tournament The International accounted for 77% of the total prize money. This means Valve awarded 3.4 times as much money as the other tournaments combined, down from a ratio of around 25 in year 2011. Na'Vi alone got every sixth Dollar of the non-TI2 prize money, iG about half of the total prize money.
Prize Money by Team (excl. TI2) - Top 10
TeamUSD-eq.
Na'Vi$73,840
LGD$47,300
mTw$28,238
Empire$28,106
iG$26,400
fnatic$26,030
EG$19,790
mouz$19,670
NoTidehunter$19,528
DK$19,100
Total$469,324
When divided by months, the strong growth of Dota 2 throughout the year is clearly visible. Tournaments are considered only by their ending date, as that is the date when the winners are determined. While the first quarter of the year barely breached the $30,000, this was distributed within a week on average in both November and December.
If the level of the fourth quarter can be hold for the whole year 2013, third-party prize money would be doubled again compared to 2012 and breach the million Dollar barrier. Overall the November with G-1 League in China and DreamHack Winter in Europe set the record for non-TI prize money in 2012.
2013 could also bring even more growth as tournaments like GEST and SMM still can make the switch over from DotA to Dota 2 with their regular tournaments.
Prize Money by Month
MonthUSD-eq.
January$0
February$2,640
March$28,000
April$16,660
May$7,044
June$37,744
July$53,784
August$45,496
September$1,608,336
October$23,156
November$124,176
December$122,288
If these numbers from Dota 2 in 2012 are compared to other eSport games, the Top 200 players of Starcraft 2 have earned prize money worth $3,350,000 in 2012 according to SC2earnings.com, League of Legends also had a massive $2,000,000 Riot-sponsored Season 2 final in Los Angeles this year, but you would need the all-time winnings of the three most successful quartets in CS 1.6 combined to surpass the winnings of iG in this year according to Thorin's take.
Explanation USD-eq.: Means "US Dollar Equivalent", to make different currencies comparable. Conversion rates: 1 EUR = 1.32 USD-eq., 1 USD = 1 USD-eq., 1 SEK = 0.15 USD-eq., 1 RMB = 0.16 USD-eq.
