What’s the total Esports World Cup 2025 prize pool?

The Esports World Cup 2025 is now underway. The opening ceremony set the stage perfectly, with a high-energy performance by Post Malone that left the crowd buzzing. With multiple games and some of the biggest esports organizations participating, this event is shaping up to be one of the most monumental in competitive gaming history. Naturally, many fans are curious about the exact prize pool for this year’s edition.

The total prize pool for the EWC 2025 is over $70.45 million, including both tournament winnings and the special Club Share Program. Here’s a complete breakdown of the prize pool.

Esports World Cup 2025 prize pool distribution explained

There are 24 games featured in the Esports World Cup 2025, each with a prize pool of at least $500,000 or more. Fortnite and COD Modern Warfare 3 are no longer a part of this event and have been replaced by five new titles: Chess, CrossFire, COD Black Ops 6, Fatal Fury, and Valorant.

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Here are the games featured at the Esports World Cup 2025 and their respective prize pools:

Game	Start date	End date	Prize pool
Valorant	July 8, 2025	July 13, 2025	$1,250,000
Rennsport	July 8, 2025	July 11, 2025	$500,000
Dota 2	July 8, 2025	July 19, 2025	$3,000,000
Honor of Kings	July 10, 2025	July 12, 2025	$3,000,000
Fatal Fury	July 10, 2025	July 19, 2025	$1,000,000
Apex Legends	July 10, 2025	July 13, 2025	$2,000,000
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (Women's)	July 15, 2025	July 19, 2025	$500,000
League of Legends	July 16, 2025	July 20, 2025	$2,000,000
Free Fire	July 16, 2025	July 20, 2025	$1,000,000
StarCraft II	July 22, 2025	July 25, 2025	$700,000
Call of Duty Black Ops 6	July 24, 2025	July 27, 2025	$1,800,000
PUBG Mobile	July 25, 2025	August 3, 2025	$3,000,000
Chess	July 29, 2025	August 1, 2025	$1,500,000
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (Men’s)	July 30, 2025	August 2, 2025	$3,000,000
Overwatch 2	July 31, 2025	August 3, 2025	$1,000,000
Rainbow Six Siege X	August 5, 2025	August 9, 2025	$2,000,000
Call of Duty Warzone	August 6, 2025	August 9, 2025	$1,000,000
EA FC 25	August 7, 2025	August 10, 2025	$1,500,000
Teamfight Tactics	August 11, 2025	August 15, 2025	$500,000
PUBG PC	August 12, 2025	August 16, 2025	$2,000,000
Tekken 8	August 13, 2025	August 16, 2025	$1,000,000
Rocket League	August 14, 2025	August 17, 2025	$1,000,000
Crossfire	August 19, 2025	August 23, 2025	$2,000,000
Counter-Strike 2	August 20, 2025	August 24, 2025	$1,250,000
Street Fighter 6	August 20, 2025	August 23, 2025	$1,000,000

The total prize money awarded across these tournaments adds up to $39.5 million. In addition, there’s over $5 million allocated for Qualifiers and $450,000 set aside for MVP awards.

Apart from the tournament prize pool, the Club Share Program contributes another $27 million to the overall pool. This initiative rewards esports organizations based on their cumulative performance throughout the event.

Here's a breakdown of the Club Share Program distribution:

1st place: $7,000,000
2nd place: $4,000,000
3rd place: $3,000,000
4th place: $2,500,000
5th place: $2,000,000
6th place: $1,500,000
7th place: $1,000,000
8th place: $850,000
9th place: $700,000
10th place: $600,000
11th place: $525,000
12th place: $450,000
13th place: $400,000
14th place: $350,000
15th place: $325,000
16th place: $300,000
17th place: $275,000
18th place: $250,000
19th place: $225,000
20th place: $200,000
21st place: $175,000
22nd place: $150,000
23rd place: $125,000
24th place: $100,000

To win the Club Championship, an organization must score the highest number of points and win at least one tournament. All games contribute equally to the point system used for the Club Share Program:

1st place: 1,000 points
2nd place: 750 points
3rd-4th place: 500 points
5th-8th place: 250 points

When you combine all the tournament winnings, Club Championship rewards, qualifier bonuses, and MVP awards, the total prize pool reaches over $70.45 million, which is significantly higher than last year’s figure. This makes the Esports World Cup 2025 one of the most ambitious esports events ever organized.

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Harshit Singh is a gaming journalist at Sportskeeda, with Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2, and Marvel Rivals being his areas of specialization. A final-year B.Des (Visual Communication) student at Delhi Technological University, he is always eager to pursue creative endeavors. Harshit aims to deliver news and up-to-date content promptly to players around the globe. To that end, he acquires information from reliable forums and social media pages and religiously tracks the latest coverage of Fortnite — a game he has been playing since 2018. He is often found testing the new meta in-game or spectating competitive tournaments.

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Harshit is an ardent fan of esports titles like CS, Rocket League, and Valorant, with Fnatic, EDG, G2, and Astralis being a few of his favorite orgs. Counter-Strike pro Xantares and Benjifishy, an esports athlete who has mastered both Fortnite and Valorant, are inspirational figures for him.

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