Over PLN 10 million. This is how Polish players earned in 2021

collects data on esports earnings from tournament prizes. In 2021, almost $ 196.5 million was distributed in esports competitions.

Poles among the best

The statistics for 2021 are as follows – a total of $ 196,492,759 was distributed in 4,046 tournaments – this is data from the esportearnings portal. The average is $ 48,564 for a tournament, but the median is just $ 1,500. How do Poles feel in this world?

Pretty good. Polish players in total won 2,753,915 dollars in 2021, which gives us the 17th place in the world in this respect (out of 124 countries listed). The Chinese dominate, with a combined total of nearly $ 37 million. Ukrainian players landed very high – they are in the 5th place in the world, and their earnings exceeded $ 10 million. This is the effect of, among others the great game Natus Vincere in CS: GO and the world champions in Dota 2.

One tournament changed everything

What Pole earned the most in 2021? It was Micha³ “Nisha” Jankowski,. The International had the largest prize pool in the history of esports – over $ 40 million. Nisha received as much as $ 720,320 from this pool, and in 2021 he earned $ 746,600. one tournament was enough for the 21-year-old to jump to first place in the country and 57 in the world.

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Teenagers are conquering the country

The next places are taken by Fortnite players with very successful months behind them. We are talking about a trio in the form of Iwo “Setta” Zajac, Maciej “teeq” Radzio and Michał “Kami” Kamiñski. All three of them earned between 174 and 185 thousand dollars in 2021, thus taking 2nd, 3rd and 4th . place in the Polish ranking.

The striking fact is that all three are still teenagers. Kami is the youngest – he is 16 years old, the other two have just reached the age of majority. are considered to be among the best “threes” in Europe.

The greatest successes in the background

The 5th and 6th place went to Patryk “starxo” Kopczyñski and “Aleksander” zeek “Zygmunt, that is the current world champions in Valoranta. , thanks to which they landed in the top ten Poles in terms of earnings.

Winning the world championship was the greatest achievement of Polish esports in 2021, but it did not translate into as much money. In the past twelve months, Starxo has earned less than $ 100,000, and a discount of just over $ 88,000.

A surprising ending

Who else was in TOP10? Mateusz “mantuu” Wilczewski took the 7th place. In terms of earnings, he is also the highest among Polish CS players, earning 44 thousand dollars.

The 8th place belongs to, here a surprise, Jan-Krzysztof Duda. This is the most popular Polish chess player, earning 40,000 dollars in 2021 according to the esportearnings portal. However, this money comes from chess tournaments played on the Internet, not from video games. The most he was given the 2nd place at the Shenzhen Masters – equal to $ 15,000.

The 9th place belongs to another world champion – Mateusz “Analzq” Jasiñski, who won the world championship in Legends of Runeterra in 2021. As a result, he earned 40,000 dollars, which pushed him to the 9th place in Poland.

Another CS: GO player – Paweł “dycha” Dycha closes the top tenth. The ENCE player counts the past months as successful, and in 2021 Dycha earned over 37 thousand dollars.

Tournament prizes are not everything

It is worth noting that esports players do not only earn from the prizes won in tournaments. More important, and above all stable, but implicit, is the normal salary paid every month. Players receive these payouts from the organization they represent. In the case of the best players in the world, we are talking about tens of thousands of dollars of basic salary.

In addition, esports are also streamers who earn money from their Twitch broadcasts. They receive subscription money as well as donations from viewers.