PUBG Mobile Global Championship prize pool 2022

The PUBG Mobile Global Championship is a mobile eSports tournament that is the culmination of the PUBG Mobile season. The PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2022 commenced in November 2022 and was contested by the best PUBG Mobile teams from throughout the world. The prize pool for the tournament that year stood at four million U.S. dollars, twice the prize pool from the inaugural championships in 2020.

eSports tournament prize pools

Professional gamers compete in a wide variety of eSports championships each year and the tournament prize pools are an important draw for the competitions. The developers of popular video game franchise Call of Duty organized annual tournaments for their mobile platform since 2020, with the winners taking home 1.7 million U.S. dollars in the 2022 iteration of the Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship. Looking at the cumulative tournament prize pools across leading eSports games worldwide, PUBG Mobile ranked third whereas Dota 2 proved to be the most lucrative competition overall for professional eSports players.

eSports viewership

Every year, millions of eSports fans tune in to watch their favorite gamers compete in global tournaments. As of November 2022, the Free Fire World Series 2021 hosted in Singapore had the largest audience size of a leading eSports tournament, with over 5.4 million viewers in total. The League of Legends World Championship is another popular competition, with the finals averaging around one million viewers since 2019. Overall, the number of mobile eSports viewers globally was expected to grow by approximately 31 percent between 2019 and 2025.