Ok, 2014 is almost three months old but this news needs to get out anyways: Starcraft 2 players earned $3.298.907 prize money in 2013. The vast majority of this pot was given away in WCS, which accounted for about $1.7 million. Counted are all solo tournaments with more than $500 prize money.

More than 3 million dollars may sound like a whole lot – and it surely is – but the global prizepool has declined. One year before, about 3.6 million dollars were on the line. There were five seasons of GSL in 2012 though compared to three GSL and one OSL in 2013.

The highest paid player was [sos] who won the WCS Global Finals. In total he earned $143,980. Best foreigner was now retired [naniwa] earning $79,138.

The Top30 of last years money ranking earned about 1.75 million dollars or fifty percent of the total prize pool. Most of them are Koreans of course. Since the current income of a south-korean employee is $20.870 in average, there are 30 players who could live on their tournament winnings alone.

Do you find this amount of numbers confusing? Well, here are some nice pictures to show what they mean:

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