Progamingtours.net released their top 10 Tournament games in the world based on the amount of prize money involved in the game, and also added the games media raiting;
“ StarCraft 2 has a media rating of 10 because it is the most popular eSport in the world with dedicated TV channels, live streams, news articles and youtube commentators such as Husky, HD, Day9 and more.”
Starcraft 2 boasts over 1.7 million United States Dollars in prize money, making it the by far most popular competitive game out there. Interestingly enough games like League of Legends has a rather low prize pool (in comparison to Sc2) but a very high media rating, thus if you are interested in hosting a tournament you could get a fairly well covered event in media even with a seemingly low prize pool!
The top three games were Starcraft 2 on 1st place, CS 1.6 on 2nd and LoL on 3rd!
Head over to progamingtours.net for the full list and more information!
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Niclas
Wounder how much sc2 will be next year! i guess 5-7m
Trevor.PGT
Nice article! Also our game rankings is based on much more then just prize money, it factors in things such as tournament frequency, expected life expectancy of the game and more! We will be adding a new section to the site ‘eSport statistics’ soon that provides more details.
@Niclas, our calculations predict 6million dollar in prizes at the end of 2012. This will be mainly to competition between sponsors and leagues such as NASL vs Thailand where thailand one uped NASL by having a 105,000 prize pool vs NASL’s 100,000
Niclas
Hehe cool will check out it when its there
oooh cool so i wasent so far of on my highest valueation 
ya next year will be very exiting if it keeps up like this. IGN aslo have 50k this year who knows what next season will have 
MrSnowman
LoL is only big because it’s F2P. I don’t see it having any real punch in the e-sports market. Both dota and HoN have quite the well built ground for e-sports. LoL just recently tried to break in, hence the replay feature was put into the game.
When looking at HoN though it bothers me that S2 always manages to make fantastic games (Savage&savage 2) but they get close to no publicity. I’m expecting HoN to go F2P some time eventually. I don’t mind, i think it will be good for the game.
Depending on how valve handles Dota 2.0 though.. It will probably be the game MOBA e-sports will center around, but I do feel that LoL fans will not be pleased with it possibly. Because the way LoL is made is to cater to the more casual market. There’s very few activated items for example, the recommended system they have is actually pretty much the best builds. There’s very few situational items. And they don’t pack the punch the items in other moba’s do.
Gabe said they’re looking into e-sport though, making it more enjoyable for the viewer, I’m guessing they’re going for something like ESL’s spectator servers which basicly have a PC pretend it’s hosting the game it’s watching, then people tune into that game, keeping the game smooth for the players yet an incredible amount of players can watch.
And it runs on the source engine so demo’s and replays will be present, which is also good for e-sport.
Really pumped for that game.
Niclas
Well its not only the hardcore fans that watch LoL so i bet their stream numbers will go up when they fix the spectator mode that is coming. As i can see it HoN is way more complicated to watch as a casual gamer and will have a hard time compete with LoL. If HoN makes a good apperance in NASL season 2 they might get some good view numbers at least in NA. But i do not find LoL and HoN that fun to watch as it is lot of stuff going on that a casual players maybe do not recognise. But we will see how LoL develop and how much ahead of Dota 2 it will be when it arrives.
HotClaw
So much for that. DotA 2 nearly equalled it with one tournament.