2013 DreamHack Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Championship
The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter Strike: Global Offensive Championship or simply DreamHack Winter 2013 was the first "" to be sponsored by Valve. The competition was held during the Winter 2013 DreamHack digital festival at the Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre in Jönköping, Sweden. Six invitees joined ten qualifiers to form the sixteen team event. Community funding helped to build the US$250,000 prizepool. The tournament had a peak 145,000 concurrent viewers on twitch.tv and the in-game viewing client.
Overwatch (video game)
The first organized, prize-winning competitions for "Overwatch" started in mid-2016, a few months after launch. The esports organizer ESL held the first international "Overwatch" competition in August 2016, called "Overwatch" Atlantic Showdown. The competition used four open qualifiers beginning in June, followed by regional qualifiers and then a final online qualifier. Eight teams then competed for a six-figure prize in the finals to be held at Gamescom 2016 from August 20–21. Turner Broadcasting's ELeague announced the first "Overwatch Open" tournament, starting in July 2016, with a total prize pool of $300,000, with plans to broadcast the finals on Turner's cable channel TBS in September 2016. In November 2016, Blizzard hosted their own Overwatch World Cup, allowing users to vote for teams to represent their nation or region, with finals taking place during their BlizzCon event. "Overwatch" grew increasingly in South Korea since it was released. It topped gaming cafes in Korea in terms of player count, surpassing that of "League of Legends". The game influenced the creation of an esports tournament in the region, under the brand APEX, which was shut down in January 2018, replacing these and other regional tournaments with the structured Overwatch Contenders league, which serves as a minor league to the Overwatch League.