prize money for worlds.

LoL pros are paid an actual salary. It's the difference between being a horse jockey and an MLS player, one can make you a millionaire, the other can give you a decent living for everyone participating.

Riot also pays LCS teams about 125,000 per split. That's 250k a year.

If I'm not mistaken, that's because League pros are paid a salary. Also, The International prize pool comes from Compendium sales, and Riot doesn't do a sale like that.

I think League players that DON'T win the grand prize end up ahead actually from the other sources of revenue, but yeah if you want to gamble and go for #1 then DOTA pulls in more. I think... I haven't spent too much time in deep research on the topic.

Are you paying for LoL Worlds prizes like Dota users do?

P.S. They could raise some the prie money of 2nd to 8 teams, though