The Spanish official European Regional League of the League of Legends game. One of the oldest ones in Europe (named División de Honor in early years) and one of the biggest professional player incubator.
An amateur esports leagues circuit and broadcast provider since January 2016. Currently operates the largest amateur League of Legends circuit on European and North American servers
ESOGA provides an esports league for youth hosted by professional coaches. Players participate in weekly gameplay sessions featuring monthly challenges, tournaments, events, and prizes. Additional services and software are offered to organizations to host their own esports and online gaming experiences across the United States and Canada.
A competition for the battle royale Apex Legends with a prize pool of US$3 million. It starts with the online tournaments, then goes to the premier tournaments, and ends with the major tournaments.
Worldwide
2020– present
eXTREMESLAND
Asian Tournament for CS:GO players. The final event is held in China.
An annual video gaming competition officially organized by FIFA and its presenting partner EA Sports.
Worldwide
2004–present
Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS, previously Fortnite World Cup)
A series of quarterly Fortnite tournaments, usually ending with a year-end championship. The prize pool of 2019’s Fortnite World Cup was $30,000,000.[2]
Worldwide
2019–present
GameBattles UK
GameBattles UK is a British esports League with daily competitions for major console games played in the UK is famous for its high value cash tournaments
The High School Esports League (HSEL) is a league of over 3,100 schools and 100,000 students. HSEL holds seasonal tournaments for high school students. Founded in 2012, they are the first and largest high school league. They offer competition in games such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Minecraft, Overwatch, Rainbow 6: Siege, and Rocket League, as well as many more.
The Interstate Scholastic Esports Alliance (ISEA) is a nationwide coalition of educator-run scholastic esports organizations serving students and schools in the K-12 space. They have over 65,000 students and 2000 schools in their 12 member scholastic league. Their members consist of IHSEA (Illinois), IAHSEA (Iowa), IEN (Indiana), MiHSEF (Michigan), MNLV (Minnesota), MOSEF (Missouri), NSESA (Nebraska), GSE (New Jersey), OKSE (Oklahoma), TEXSEF (Texas), WSSEA (Washington), and WIHSEA (Wisconsin).
IMBA esports is an upcoming Australian esports League, designed to foster talent and grow the esports community in Australia. Currently, the site contains a survey to gather responses so that the site can be best designed for the demands of the community.
Organized by Turtle Entertainment, which also runs the Electronic Sports League, the Intel Extreme Masters was created to expand beyond the ESL's mostly European focus.
An annual esports competition involved active Konami (and its subdivision Bemani) arcade titles. The finals were held in Japan in a conference area or Japan Amusement Expo (since 2015).[5][6]
Flagship annual tournament of League of Legends, recently recognized as the most played video game in the world. Considered one of the, if not the most watched esports event in the world with the 2016 League of Legends World Championship achieving 43 million unique viewers and 14.7 million peak concurrent viewership. The final prize pool for 2016 League of Legends World Championship, which included fan contributions via purchase of in-game items, was worth $6.7 million.
Worldwide
2011 – present
LeagueGaming.com NHL
EA Sports NHL 18 EASHL Competitive Free and Money League. For Xbox and PlayStation
The annual League of Legends international tournament hosted by Riot Games in the middle of years. It is the second most important international League of Legends tournament aside from the World Championship.
MSSA is an affiliate of IeSF. MSSA is the controlling authority for all esports in South Africa as per the Sport and Recreation Act.[8] MSSA runs all official events in South Africa from School to National Championship level. Through MSSA gamers can achieve Protea Colours and bursaries to attend university.
Neo Geo World Tour - officially supported by SNK, the global esports tour features games from The King of Fighters series, and a high score attack challenge from the Metal Slug series. Season 1 in 2018 covered 13 global stops, including a grand finals event in Hong Kong. In 2019's season 2, the event grew to 32 global stops, including the grand finals event in Taipei.
Worldwide
2018–present
NGL Summer Tournament
This is a Bangladeshi esports tournament organized by the National Gaming League for League of Legends.
This is a month long-tournament with game titles including Clash Royale, Dota 2 and FIFA. The aim of the tournament is to promote esports in the Northeastern region of India which has been underrepresented in the Indian esports space.[citation needed]
A 3 day competition by the International Olympic Committee, with games inspired by the olympic games like Archery (Tic Tac Bow), Baseball (WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS), Chess (Chess.com), Cycling (Zwift), Dance (Just Dance 2023 Edition), Motor sport (Gran Turismo), Sailing (Virtual Regatta) and Shooting (ISSF Challenge featuring Fortnite) [citation needed]
Premier Gaming League (PGL) is an online esports buy-in tournament hosting site. Buy-in tournaments with the winner taking all. Prizes range from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Mostly hosts Fortnite and Call of Duty tournaments.
Pharaoh's Conclave (PCX) is the connector of the esports industry, helping the community identify entry points into and navigate pathways through the esports industry to move from amateur to professional (i.e., "pub to pro"). PCX hosts tournaments that feature an Olympic medley-style of play, where teams compete across a number of different games and the winner is the team with the highest score overall.
PGL, otherwise known as Professional Gamers League, is one of the leading European companies in the field of esports events. It is based in Bucharest, Romania and it is headed by Silviu Stroie, who is also the vice-president of the International eSports Federation (IeSF).[14]
The Play It Forward eSports Tournament is a live-streamed event where the worlds of eSports, professional athletes, online gamers, philanthropy, and cancer-fighting technology are coming together for a unique experience to raise hospital funds and help find a cure for cancer through gaming.
Traditional professional athletes such as Michael Irvin will join eSports athletes to play video games along with
children and family members who have had or are having medical treatment at Children's Health in Dallas, Texas. First tournament stream for the Play It Forward eSports Event is on May 18, 2019. Watch Live on Twitch. playitforwardesports.com
PlayVS launched in 2018 as a high school esports platform and has since expanded to youth leagues as well. PlayVS is partnered with the National Federation of State High School Associations.[15] Current title offerings across high school, youth leagues include League of Legends, Rocket League, Mario Cart, Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, Overwatch 2, NBA2K and Madden.
A tournament for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in India with a prize pool of ₹10,000,000. It is believed to be the second biggest eSports tournament held in India as of February 2019.[16][17]
The flagship tournament for SMITE, a third-person MOBA developed by Hi-Rez Studios. The tournament (currently) involves 14 teams from 6 regions and US$1 million in prize money.
Indie Game Publishing and Development Company in Winston - Salem, North Carolina. Creating proprietary games for local tournament play. Tournaments are held sporadically based upon demand and player availability in a given area. YUGA 2022, Apoloi
The Tekken World Tour is an international tournament series for the iconic fighting franchise Tekken. Co-sponsored by the game's developer, Bandai Namco Entertainment.
The Ultimate Gaming Championship has specialized in running experiential events since 2006. Generally recognized for their Halo tournament offerings, the UGC has recently branched out into other top console titles including Gears of War and Super Smash Brothers. During a 6-month period in 2016, the UGC ran more events than any other organizer with prize pools totaling US$310,000.
UMG Gaming has been holding gaming events mainly for the Call of Duty franchise since 2012, it has become a staple event for teams and events are considered major events where all professional teams compete.
Organizes Skyesports GrandSlam is an online esports tournament for PUBG Mobile, Brawlstars, Clash of clans, Rainbow six siege which took place for a duration of 50 days May to June 2020.
Free Fire India Championship(FFIC) January 2020 was a tournament organized by Garena. It was Garena's First FreeFire Esport tournament in India, but the Finals were fortified due to COVID-19.[citation needed]
Skyesports League is One of the largest tournament in South Asia, AMD Ryzen 5000 series presents Skyeports League will be based on city vs city model, will be set to feature Cities are Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Punjab, Delhi, Kolkata and Rajasthan.
PUBG Mobile Pakistan Challenge 2020 was Pakistan's largest PUBG mobile tournament hosted by Tencent Games. It was hosted in November 2020 and boasted a massive prize pool of PKR 1 Crores.[citation needed]
PUBG Mobile Global Championship is the final major event of PUBG Mobile Esports For every year. Best teams from around the world were invited or qualified for the event.
Free Fire World Series 2021 (Singapore) is one of the biggest Free Fire Esports tournament at the global level organized by Garena in Singapore.[20] This tournament has a massive prize pool of 2 million USD.[20] The qualified 2 teams from India is out of Free Fire World Series 2021 due to COVID-19.[21]
A four-way collaboration arcade tournament between Bandai Namco, Konami, Sega and Taito, and organised by Japan Amusement Industry Association (JAIA) (previously Amusement Machine Operators' Union (AOU)) involving crossover songs from respective titles playable (and used for competition phases) to participating arcades. The finals are held in Japan Amusement Expo on the competition's succeeding year.[1]
The flagship Esports and competitive video games festival in Sri Lanka. Hosted since 2008, the event organized by Gamer.LK brings participants from across Sri Lanka together as they battle it out across the most popular Esports titles in the country.[23][24][25]
The PGL was early professional gamers league based in the United States formed in Nov 1997.[26][27] The first world finals were hosted in Seattle in Jan 1998.[28] Though short lived, they held one of the earliest professional Starcraft tournaments in Nov 1998.[29]
Premier professional esports league for Overwatch. Competition and team structure mimics North American sports league with city-based teams and regular season play.
