How much did the largest esports prize pool pay out?

How to get close to this number

Read the question: it asks about the largest prize pool rather than a salary. Anchor on traditional sport — a major tennis or golf championship pays its winner a few million, and the total purse is a multiple of that. An esports event exceeding all of them lands in the tens of millions.

The funding mechanism in the explanation is what makes that possible and is unique to the format: the prize pool is funded mostly by players buying in-game items, with a share of each sale flowing into the purse. The audience literally crowdfunds the prize, which no traditional sport can do.

The comparison is the one that lands: the winning team took home more than the Wimbledon singles champion. A tournament in a game most people have never played out-paid one of the oldest events in sport, funded not by broadcasters or sponsors but by its own players buying cosmetics.