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Update: Fan Contributions to Worlds Prize Pool

Riot·10/28/2016, 6:00:11 PM·2 votes·73,777 views

It’s been an incredible month of games leading up to the Finals at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Thanks for following us on the road across North America and supporting the best teams in the World on their journey to lift the Summoner’s Cup!

On the eve of Finals, here’s an update on the total prize pool that teams will take home, including all proceeds from fan purchases of Championship Zed and Championship ward skins.

Over the last few weeks, our total prize pool has been raised to $5.07MM - remember that you can still support the prize pool through November 6th, and we’ll announce the final total just after!

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Check out our previous post for a breakdown of how this pool will be distributed amongst competing teams.

Thanks again for helping to support the best pro play in LoL esports. See you at the Finals!

 

72 Comments

PYROJKL10/28/2016, 6:26:49 PM37 votes

Current Prize pool breakdown: 1st: $2.03 M 2nd: $761 K 3rd/4th: $380 K 5-8: $203 K 9-12: $114 K 13-16: $63 K

delta1210/28/2016, 6:13:41 PM25 votes

That's a lot of RP

GGdays10/28/2016, 7:27:27 PM12 votes

And we give all these money to Korean. Feels bad man.[zombie-nunu-bummed]

LatetotheRace10/29/2016, 7:24:04 AM9 votes

Well there's evidence that assassins sell skins. Rip Star guardian Urgot.

MrMooseanator10/28/2016, 6:22:17 PM8 votes

[zombie-nunu-hearts] Nice job everyone, let's hope Riot does this every year from now on

Fabzz10/29/2016, 12:27:05 AM4 votes

very nice, now we're only 15M away from catching up to dota, we can do it guys, don't give up!

Jesus Is My King10/28/2016, 8:08:39 PM3 votes

leave akali alone :(

rtbf6365684610/28/2016, 8:32:21 PM2 votes

Any chance RIOT would reimburse me paying for internet services just to play Leauge? It isn't cheap living in the middle of nowhere and having to pay more just so you don't have 400+ ping. #thestruggle #feelsbadman

TBakes10/28/2016, 7:44:51 PM2 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Tamuut10/28/2016, 6:28:12 PM2 votes

Meanwhile the DOTA 2 prize pool is a little over $20 million without having to rely on players...

Stexe10/29/2016, 2:17:21 AM1 votes

Has anyone figured out how much RP and $ people spent to get that total?

PrayForParisPls10/29/2016, 11:35:58 AM1 votes

More prize money won't change the fact that Worlds are not as hyped as in 2014's season. SSW was the shit. Now it's just drama and trying to create hype really is getting redundant .

Zigswag00n11/1/2016, 8:30:37 AM1 votes

:/ be nice if riot gave some of that back to players every once in a while not even a thank you to those that bought the skins