eSports Crowd Funding Create $2.5m Prize Pool For Halo World Championships

The 2016 Halo World Championships is set to award the largest prize in eSports console history, and the seventh-largest prize overall after crowd funding helps spawn a $2.5 million monster.

The 2016 Halo World Championships (HaloWC) promises to be something special,

16 teams will compete for what will be the largest prize pool in eSports console history and the seventh largest in eSports tournaments proper. Microsoft originally guaranteed $1m in prize money but opened it up to Halo fans to increase that by purchasing in-house REQ system add-ons when playing Halo 5: Guardians.

The prize pool is locked in at $2.5 million. Unsurprising, when you consider that Halo 5 earned $400 million in its first week of sales. The winning team will walk away with $1m, and the rest of the money falls as thus: