Halo World Championship to have the largest prize pool in the history of shooters

فبراير 24, 2016

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If you thought that the Call of Duty championships are as big as it gets for the shooting genre’s tournaments, you’ll be surprised with the huge amount of money on stake here at the Halo 5: Guardians centered tournament.

Microsoft announced today that 16 teams from across the globe have earned a spot in the Halo World Championship for the Xbox One. The teams will compete from March 18-20 for a prize money of $2.5 million dollars, which is the seventh largest prize pool in games history and the number one for home consoles and shooting games.

Halo is perhaps the best example of a console hit having success in the esports maket, where the PC is always dominating be it Counter-Strike to League of Legends. The huge success of the game landed it a $400 million in sales on the first week alone.

Microsoft initially set the prize pool at $1 million, but it was raised via crowdfunding by fans through Halo 5: Guardians in-game micro-transactions. Other tournaments, like Dota 2, have used similar crowdfunding methods to boost the prize pools for their world championships.

Here are the competing teams: