eSports fantasy website Vulcun announced this past week it had more than doubled its 2015 prize pool from $4 million to $10 million, making it the second largest prize pool of the year outside of The International 2015 – $10.9 M [Dota2].
Vulcun has already revealed it paid out $2 million so far this year.
The company has been flush with cash since the start of the year thanks to a growing number of investors looking into jump head first into the eSports fantasy sports market.
Below are the current 2015 prize pools in eSports:
- The International 2015 – $10.9 M [Dota2]
- Vulcun – $10.0 M [Fantasy eSports]
- League Championship Series – $5.5 M [League of Legends]
- DAC 2015 – $3.6 M [Dota2]
- Smite 2015 – $2.6 M [Smite]
- HOTS Championship (Heroes of the Storm) – $1.2M
- ESL ESEA Pro League (CS:GO) – $1.0M
- COD World Championship (Call of Duty) – $1.0M
- LPL Spring & Summer (League of Legends) – $756K
- i-League S3 (Dota2) – $420K
– Aaron Goldstein, Gambling911.com