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The 10 Highest-Earning Esports Organizations of the First Half of 2019 by Total Winnings

by Andrew Hayward

Top 10 H1 2019 Teams By Prize Pool Earnings

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With more than $50M USD awarded between just the top 10 highest-prizing games so far in 2019, many prominent esports organizations have already amassed significant winnings ahead of the second half of the year.

According to data collected by Esports Earnings, the top 10 winningest teams (by total prize earnings) have each earned more than $625K apiece, with three teams surpassing the million-dollar mark in six months or less. There’s still a lot more potential money ahead, especially with Dota 2‘s Database-Link-e1521645463907 record-breaking (and still-growing) The International 2019 prize pool and the $30M Fortnite World Cup—but for now, these are the top-earning teams when it comes to prizing this year.

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  1. Virtus.pro: $627K

Virtus.pro’s Database-Link-e1521645463907 success in 2019 thus far has primarily come via Dota 2, and its largest winnings are from non-victories: the team earned $170K each from second-place finishes at The Chongqing Major 2019 and DreamLeague Season 11, respectively, and added another $100K from a third-place result at this past weekend’s EPICENTER Major 2019 Database-Link-e1521645463907. The once-dominant Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Database-Link-e1521645463907 (CS:GO) team has earned just $27K from that game so far this year, along with $16K from Fortnite.

 

  1. Ninjas in Pyjamas: $693K

Ninjas in Pyjamas Database-Link-e1521645463907 took a large percentage of its 2019 prize pool earnings from Dota 2, as well, with $440K of its $693K total coming from the game. The team’s two biggest wins came from the StarLadder Database-Link-e1521645463907ImbaTV Database-Link-e1521645463907Dota 2 Minor Season 2 and OGA Dota PIT Minor, each of which earned the team $125K. The team’s next-best game was CS:GO, which has accounted for $181K so far in 2019 including $45K for a third-place finish at BLAST Pro Series: Miami Database-Link-e1521645463907.

 

  1. TnC Gaming: $703K

TnC Gaming’s 2019 earnings come almost entirely from its Dota 2 team, which earned $500K by winning the WESG 2018 Database-Link-e1521645463907 tournament in March. The team earned another $75K by topping the Asia Pacific Predator League and $80K for finishing fourth at the EPICENTER Major 2019, but otherwise had modest winnings in other tournaments—fourth place at the ESL Database-Link-e1521645463907 One Mumbai 2019 ($20K) and 9th-12th at The Chongqing Major ($15K), for example.

 

  1. NRG: $744K (Includes Shock)

With the San Francisco Shock’s Database-Link-e1521645463907Overwatch League Database-Link-e1521645463907 winnings factored in, NRG Database-Link-e1521645463907 has pulled in $744K from prize pools so far this year. The Shock commanded the largest amount of that, $300K, from finishing second in Stage 1 and winning Stage 2. NRG’s CS:GO team has earned $220K so far from tournaments, including a pair of recent third/fourth-place finishes at the ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals Database-Link-e1521645463907 ($40K) and ECS Season 7 Finals Database-Link-e1521645463907 ($50K). Its Rocket League Database-Link-e1521645463907 team, meanwhile, has earned $93K so far this year.

 

  1. Team Vitality: $747K

June was very kind to Team Vitality Database-Link-e1521645463907, as a pair of major wins—the CS:GO ECS Season 7 Finals ($225K) and Rocket League Championship Series World Championship ($200K)—more than doubled the team’s earnings so far this year. CS:GO has been the organization’s largest source of prize money at $437K total, while its Rocket League total this year stands at $259K. The organization’s next-highest game, Hearthstone Database-Link-e1521645463907, isn’t even close at $21K.

 

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  1. Astralis: $782K

Astralis Database-Link-e1521645463907 plays CS:GO and CS:GO alone, and the team has been extraordinarily successful at it—in 2018, the team earned $3.65M in prizing from a series of major wins. The team hasn’t been as dominant over the last couple of months, but its $500K grand prize for winning March’s Intel Database-Link-e1521645463907 Extreme Masters Katowice 2019 Major forms the bulk of its earnings, with a BLAST Pro Series: São Paulo Database-Link-e1521645463907 win soon after adding another $125K to the tally.

 

  1. Vici Gaming: $993K

Vici Gaming’s Database-Link-e1521645463907 trio of big Dota 2 tournament wins helped it jump up the list, amassing $993K so far in 2019. The team earned $932K of its $993K 2019 haul to date from the game, including $350K each for winning DreamLeague Season 11 Database-Link-e1521645463907 and The EPICENTER Major 2019. Another $125K came from winning the StarLadder ImbaTV Dota 2 Minor. The rest of Vici’s prize earnings came from games such as PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS Database-Link-e1521645463907 (PUBG) ($17K), League of Legends Database-Link-e1521645463907 ($29K), and CS:GO ($15K).

 

  1. Team Secret: $1.13M

Team Secret Database-Link-e1521645463907 is quite good at Dota 2, and has already extended its streak to five straight years of winning at least $1M from the game. The organization has competed in just six Dota 2 events so far in 2019 and won four of them: The Chongqing Major ($350K), MDL Disneyland Paris Major Database-Link-e1521645463907 ($350K), ESL One Katowice ($125K), and ESL One Birmingham ($125K). Team Secret’s non-Dota 2 earnings come from games such as Rainbow Six Siege Database-Link-e1521645463907 ($36K) and Fortnite ($20K).

 

  1. G2 Esports: $1.73M

How lucrative is Rainbow Six Siege in 2019? It’s lucrative enough for G2 Esports Database-Link-e1521645463907 to net $800K from winning the Six Invitational 2019, February’s de facto world championship. G2 has also earned $490K in prizing from League of Legends so far this year, including $400K for winning May’s Mid-Season Invitational. The team also has $227K from CS:GO, as well as $162K from Rocket League following a runner-up finish at the RLCS World Championship.

 

  1. Team Liquid: $2.17M

Team Liquid’s Database-Link-e1521645463907 2019 earnings are pretty diversified, although its $734K haul from CS:GO leads the pack by a fair amount. Winning the recent ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals earned the team $250K alone, plus it earned $100K each from winning DreamHack Masters Dallas Database-Link-e1521645463907, IEM Season XIV – Sydney, and iBUYPOWER Database-Link-e1521645463907 Masters IV. Elsewhere, the team earned $533K from Dota 2, $145K from PUBG, $105K from Hearthstone, $97K from Magic: The Gathering Arena Database-Link-e1521645463907, $94K from Rainbow Six Siege, and $79K from Fortnite.

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