{"id":8239,"date":"2019-09-26T00:31:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T00:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=8239"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:04:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:04:11","slug":"fortnite-overtakes-counter-strike-in-esports-money-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/fortnite-overtakes-counter-strike-in-esports-money-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite overtakes Counter-Strike in esports money rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fortnite Battle Royale<\/a> has edged past Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to become the world’s second-richest esports game, having paid out an astonishing US $82,909,282 in prize money in less than two years.<\/p>\n

Released on July 21, 2017 by Epic Games, the title did not officially enter the competitive esports scene until the inaugural Fortnite Summer Skirmish was held almost a year later on July 14, 2018.<\/p>\n

That tournament featured 50 teams competing for a share of $250,000, which even at that time measured up to some of the S-Tier CS:GO events and remains comparable to some of the biggest esports tournaments<\/a> across all titles.<\/p>\n

While the Fortnite Summer Skirmish was deemed by many a disaster of a tournament due to lag issues and poor gameplay, Epic and Fortnite have come a long way since then.<\/p>\n

Fortnite is now one of the fastest-growing esports games<\/a> in the industry, elevating past major titles such as Halo, Call of Duty, Starcraft II and even League of Legends in terms of prize money.<\/p>\n

Epic Games made sure to take advantage of the rapidly growing player base, which reportedly grew from 30 million in December 2017 to 200 million by November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even amid such a stunning rise, all expectations were exceeded when a $30 million prize pool was confirmed for the 2019 Fortnite World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although that mark was bettered less than a month later by The International 9 and its $34.3 million fund, for a few weeks it was the largest esports prize pool of all time.<\/p>\n

Epic Games took their wildly successful title to another level with the Fortnite Champions Series, offering a $10 million prize pot across seven regions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The top teams in Europe ($1.68m) and North America ($1.05m) collected a combined $2,730,000 when the FNCS concluded last weekend, thus pushing the total amount of Fortnite prize money to $82,909,282 over 495 tournaments.<\/p>\n

That figure sees Fortnite leapfrog Counter-Strike ($82,728,806) into second place on the all-time esports money list.<\/p>\n

Dota 2 still reigns supreme with a breath-taking $216,416,299 paid out over eight years, and that number will exceed $217 million by the time the $300k ESL One Hamburg concludes in October.<\/p>\n

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