Top 5 Video game tournaments offering highest Cash Prize

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                     Video Games, obviously the revolution in digital world, are great sources of entertainment and they even poured down rains of money to the gaming industries. The trend has been modified and they even started to offer cash prizes for the game users too through E-sports. We can transit to a millionaire just by winning the game. Here is the list of top 5 video games all around the world which are found to be the most lucrative to become rich.

#1 : Dota 2 

                    

This is a strategy based " Multiplayer online battle arena"(MOBA) developed by Valve,the game is still in its beta version . Valve conducts Dota 2 tournament every year as "The International" which has the highest prize pool of 11million USD which is still increasing with the purchase of in-game items by players.The prize distribution is as follows

Total prize pool : $10,924,897

First place :  $5,025,453 
Second place : $1,474,861 
Third place : $1,037,865 
Fourth place : $819,367
5/6 place : $655,494
7/8 place : $518,933
9/10 place : $49,162
11/12 place : $38,237
13/14 place : $21,850

Total cash prizes given till now : $ 21million
Metacritic Rating : 90/100. Dota 2 is a Free to play game which is available for download on Steam.
( http://store.steampowered.com/app/570/)



#2 : League of Legends :

This game is also a MOBA developed by Riot games. LoL tournaments are conducted very frequently throughout the year

Riot games has conducted about 800+tournaments giving away
cash prizes upto $15million.
Prize pool for each major event
is about $2 million dollars,
making it the second highest paying game.

Metacritic Rating : 78/100.
LoL is a free to play game available for download at
 https://signup.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/signup/redownload




#3 : Counter strike : Global offensive:

This is a Military online multi-player action game
developed and published by valve.
This game has about 1200 

professional players.
One of the major CS:GO 
tournament is conducted by 
ESL(electronic sports league) 
every year with a cash prize 
of $250,000 thus making it stand
in position 3. The amount given as cash prizes till now is about $3 million.

Metacritic Rating : 83/100.
Available for download at http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/




#4 : Starcraft 2:

This game is a military science fiction
Real time strategy (RTS) game 
by Blizzard entertainments which has held above 1700
tournaments offering prize pools from $30,000-$50,000 in each game and so far it has given $13million it has the third largest number of players where LoL and CS:GO
with first and second highest number of players.

Metacritic Rating : 93/100.
You can buy or try starcraft 2 at 
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/sc2/



#5 : Counter Strike 1.6 :

This is also military multi-player first person shooter game by valve also famous as cs or cs 1.6 this game has a lot of local and minor tournaments than any other game, but the major events offer a prize pool up to $50,000 and has given away 10million dollars as cash prizes until now 
making it the fifth most paying game.

Metacritic Rating : 80/100.
This game is available for purchase at 
http://store.steampowered.com/app/10/