Most prize money for a competitive videogame

If you are looking to get into eSports for the money and have your eyes on the biggest cash prizes available, the game you would be looking for is DotA 2, which boasts over $24,873,800 of cash prizes split over 305 tournaments. The largest chunk of that money comes from DotA fans themselves, through purchasing a "digital compendium", a virtual booklet that rewards buyers with different ways to interact with the competition. A quarter of the cost of the compendium goes straight into the prize pot. Another bonus for DotA 2 tournament competitors is that, according to esportsearnings.com, there are only around 750 of them, so their chances of winning are already higher than those of League of Legends players, which has more than 2,500 competitors vying for the $18,865,933 of prizes split over 1,224 tournaments offered for that game.

League of Legends is the game that offers the next largest value of cash prizes in tournament competitions.