5 people, 5 million dollars: Why are the prizes so high in electronic athletics?

Our reporter Tzu Xin China electronic sports team Newbee in the United States held the fourth session of the DOTA2 International Invitational Tournament won the championship, bonuses as high as 5 million U.S. dollars, if 5 members, each can get 1 million dollars. The news returns to the domestic, caused the media and Netizen's high attention. For the first time, many people have heard that e-sports pros have been able to get such huge financial rewards. So why is it so high that the prize money in the e-sports competition dwarfs even the most influential professional sporting events? The total bonus for the fourth session of the DOTA2 International Invitational Tournament is 10.93 million dollars, of which the champions Prize is 5 million dollars. If the international professional development of the highest degree of tennis to compare, you can find that the four Grand Slam tennis tournament men and women Singles Championship prize, between 2 million ~300 million dollars, only to DOTA2 International Invitational Championship prize money half. The DOTA2 International Invitational Tournament is the highest in the world, and the prize money is far more than any other electronic competition, according to a senior person in the domestic electronic athletics industry today. The tournament's bonuses are high because of the huge online gamers who have bought game props similar to virtual game tickets, bringing a bonanza. DOTA2 is an online game with tens of millions of players worldwide and the DOTA2 International Invitational Tournament is organised by DOTA2 's game makers. Game makers specifically for the game created a virtual game like tickets to the props, players buy this item, in addition to watching the game online, but also to gain additional game benefits. Compared to the traditional sports games can sell less than thousands of tickets a maximum of tens of thousands of, relying on the tens of millions of online players in the DOTA2 International Invitational Tournament potential "tickets", the number of sales must be staggering. Each "Ticket" sales income is a part of the game bonuses, which naturally padded the game's total bonus number. According to the domestic electronic sports industry veteran, DOTA2 International Invitational Bonus mode is completely different from the traditional sports, traditional sports events, the main source of money is corporate sponsorship, and DOTA2 International Invitational competition funds are mainly the investment of game manufacturers, and the sale of virtual tickets to the game players income, This is also the development direction of the electronic athletics tournament, is the product of the internet age. The industry personage says, the electronic athletics event is born because of the internet age, although the race content and the traditional sports item have the huge difference, benefit from the development pattern of the interconnection economy, but it is worth to draw lessons from the traditional sports match. BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua)