The year has just changed, 2022 has become a year that has captured the attention of esports lovers around the world. Various esports tournaments have been successfully held and even have a fantastic Prize Pool or the largest prize pool.
Entering 2022, at least there are several game developers and publishers who have confirmed the upcoming esports tournament. Starting from Dota 2, PUBG, League of Legends, Mobile Legends, Free Fire, and many more.
As esports lovers, let’s look at the list of the most awaited esports tournaments in 2022 with the largest total prizes / prize pools, some have already set the dates, you know, so don’t forget to take notes!
10. Esports President Cup 2022
The local tournament also doesn’t want to lose, after being successful in its first year, the Esports President’s Cup is now ready to be held for 2022. IESPL as the organizer will compete in Free Fire, eFootball PES 2022 and there will also be a Mobile Premier League arcade game tournament, a local game exhibition tournament. The total prize is also large, you know, namely Rp. 1.5 billion.
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9. M2 World Championship
The emergence of the Mobile Legends game has a very good impact on the development of esports in Indonesia in particular. Moonton as a publisher always holds Mobile Legends tournaments every year, now in 2022, Moonton finally held its first world event, the Mobile Legends World Championship with a Prize Pool of USD 250,000. EVOS Esports managed to emerge as the champion against an eternal enemy, namely RRQ.
At the end of the M1 World Championship event, it was also announced that there would be another M2 World Championship located in Indonesia, you know. You can see the trailer above.
8. Smite World Championship
Starting the list, let’s open with the Smite game from Titan Forge and Hi-Rez which is a MOBA genre game. Although this game is less popular in Indonesia, you need to know that they hold tournaments with big prizes, you know. The last Smite World Championship tournament held in 2022 Season 6 with a total prize of USD 1.6 million was won by SK Gaming.
7. BLAST Premiere – CS:GO
Don’t want to miss this game, CS:GO is enlivening 2022, the event which has just started in 2022 has succeeded in achieving success and wants to repeat it again in 2022. With the Prize Pool which has increased dramatically, in 2022 BLAST Pro Series is only USD 500 thousand. Now in 2022 the BLAST Premier prize pool reaches USD 4.25 million which is divided into 5 tournaments.
That is
- BLAST Premier: Spring 2022 Regular Season prize USD 300 thousand, from 31 January – 16 February
- BLAST Premier: Spring 2022 prize USD 750 thousand
- BLAST Premier: Fall 2022 Regular Season prize USD 300 thousand
- BLAST Premier: Fall 2022 prize USD 750 thousand
- The highlight of BLAST Premier: Global Final 2022 prize is USD 1.5 million
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6.Fortnite World Cup 2022
The 2022 Fortnite World Cup is an esports tournament that managed to surprise many people thanks to the total prize offered, which reached USD 45,212,500 or Rp. 623 billion. But it is divided into four tournaments namely Fortnite World Cup Finals – Solo, Duo, Creative FINals, Celebrity Pro-Am. Reportedly, Epic Games is also ready to hold the Fortnite World Cup again in 2022.
5. Global Series – Apex Legends
This battle royale game, which was just released in early 2022, has indeed developed very quickly, its first year having achieved great success. Respawn Entertainment as the developer immediately held a tournament called Global Series with a Prize Pool of USD 3 million. The tournament will be held starting from January 25, 2022 then the main tournament alias Major will start on March 13-15 2022.
4. PUBG Mobile
Closing the end of 2022 by holding a massive tournament, namely PMCO, PUBG Mobile is ready to give another big tournament in 2022. With this PUBG Mobile version held by Tencent, they are ready for an esports roadmap in 2022 with a big tournament title. With a total prize pool of USD 5 million or IDR 69 billion.
3. Worlds Championships 2022 – League of Legends
As a very popular MOBA game throughout the world including Indonesia, League of Legends also has a big esports tournament with fantastic prizes, you know, the World Championship. With Prize Pool / prizes reaching USD 2 million and various other interesting things besides tournaments such as group vocals every year, etc.
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2. PUBG Global Series 2022
If it was already the Mobile version, this time the main version is also ready to hold an Esports tournament in 2022, you know, titled PUBG Global Series 2022 with a large number of prizes in this tournament. Even Blue Hole has also planned to add to the Pirze Pool by releasing exclusive cosmetics which will start in January 2022. The tournament itself will be split up, starting from April 2022. Then continue in July, October, and finally November 2022.
1. The International 2022 – Dota 2
The highlight of the most awaited esports tournament is of course none other than The International Dota 2, as the tournament with the biggest prize at this time and every year it continues to grow, of course, esports teams and spectators eagerly await every year.
After The International 2022 managed to break the prize pool record of USD 34,330,068 or more than IDR 472 billion and will it continue to increase in 2022? After the 2022 event ended, Valve also immediately announced for next year, which will be held in Stockholm, Sweden. The TI20 Prize Pool itself has not been seen because the Prize Pool from The International is based on Battle Pass sales.
That’s the list of the most awaited esports tournaments by all gamers around the world in 2022 that have the biggest Prize Pool / total prize. Which of the above tournaments are you most looking forward to? Don’t forget to leave a comment below.
