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Dota 2 built esports' richest prize pool era through crowdfunding, then watched it collapse when Valve killed the Battle Pass model. Here's how the mechanics, the money, and the meta actually work.

League of Legends became the world's most-watched esport, with Worlds 2024 peaking at 6.94 million viewers. Here's how a 2009 MOBA built that infrastructure.