SMITE World Championship 2021 set the record for hours watched among similar SMITE tournaments, getting 2.8M hours. The main SMITE esports event of the year is the SMITE World Championship. It is most popular in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The game features gods and mythical creatures from different mythologies as heroes. SMITE is a unique third-person multiplayer game developed by HI-Rez Studios and released in 2012. The semi-finals will take place in Toronto at the Scotiabank Arena, and the final will take place in San Francisco at the Chase Center. The play-in stage will take place in Mexico City at the Liga Latinoamerica (LLA) esports arena, while the group stage and the quarter-finals will take place in New York at the Hulu Theater in Madison Square Garden. Also, according to Esports Charts, the final was watched by almost 2.2 million viewers, which is a record for the MSI event series at the moment.Īlso, in October of this year, the final tournament of the World Championship 2022 will be held in North America. In the final, team Royal Never Give Up from China defeated South Koreans T1 with a score of 3:2. It was held from May 10 to 29 in Busan, South Korea. The Mid-Season Invitational 2022, the pinnacle event of the 2022 Spring Split and the first cross-regional competition of Season 12, has just ended. The game is most popular in East Asia, South America, and Central Europe.
The prize pool of the 2021 World Championship was $2 million, while the biggest one - $5 million - was recorded at the 2017 World Championship. In 2021, the broadcast gathered more than four million viewers at its peak, and the tournament also broke the record among all esports events by hours watched - 174.83 million hours. But the most important competition in League of Legends is the World Championship. The tournament gathered 1.84 million viewers. Many tournaments are held in this discipline, one of which was the Mid-Season Invitational 2021. Three years later, in 2012, the company announced that LoL had become the most popular game in the world, with 70 million registered players. League of Legends is a video game released by Riot Games in 2009. PGL has confirmed that the competition would be held in the LAN format with spectators. The PGL Arlington Major 2022, the second Major of this season, is expected to take place in Arlington, Texas, on August 8–14. These tournaments help determine the teams that will get a direct invitation to The International. Dota Pro Circuit is a professional Dota 2 tournament system introduced in 2017 by the game developer, Valve. From May 12 to 25, ESL One Stockholm 2022 was held - the first Major of the Dota Pro Circuit 2021/2022 season. Valve recently announced that The International 11 would be held in Singapore in October.Īlso popular are the Major tournaments - qualifying tournaments for The International. The prize pool gets bigger with each passing year: in 2019, it was $34 million, while in 2021 - $40 million. The International is the largest tournament in the Dota 2 title. The game is very popular in Southeast and North Asia, South America, and Europe. It is played by two teams of five people each, and the main goal is to destroy the enemy team’s central building.
In 2013, after two years of beta testing, Valve Corporation released Dota 2, a standalone sequel to the DotA map idea suggested for Warcraft III.