$5,000,000 to be Up for Grabs at Riot's Season Two League of Legends Championship

Since I have pretty much been neglecting League of Legends ever since I rage quit from it over half a year ago I decided to take a look back at the growing booming eSports scene. I was shocked to come across this announcement by Riot: a 5,000,000 prize pool to be expected for the season to championships! HOLY COW. Riot just put a new definition to "1-upping" by doing just that to their hyped up competitor: DOTA 2 who had a 1,000,000 prize pool earlier in August. Actually, RIOT made this announcement back in August as well. Whether it is a publicity scam to keep their player base interested or a serious stimpack to eSports is your own judgement. Now if only Blizzard could do something to help the eSports scene other then providing amazing games.

See the official announcement here.