#2 – Smite – Smite World Championship 2015 – $2,612,259

In January, eight of the world’s most elite professional Smite teams converged on Atlanta, Georgia, to crown the best smite team on the planet. With a prize pool of over $2.6 Million on offer (as a result of their Odyssey crowd-sourcing campaign), Hi-Rez Studios is now officially offering the fifth largest prize pool in the history of eSports.

Yet again an American team were favorites, and won the event giving Cognitive Prime a cool $1,306,130 for the team to take home.