Warcraft III Professional Competition
The expansion to the computer game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne has an active professional competition scene, particularly in China, Germany and South Korea. The game is featured at electronic gaming festivals including the World Cyber Games, the Electronic Sports World Cup, the World e-Sports Games and the World Series of Video Games. Outside of the professional circuit, the game has many active competitive circuits, with users at Battle.net ranging between the 70,000 and 100,000 at any given moment. In China, in which Warcraft III is very popular, fans and users often use an alternative client due to the country's poor internet connections to the outside world. Around 3,000,000 copies of the game were sold in the country. 500,000 Chinese competed in the Chinese qualifiers for the 2006 World Cyber Games. Recently the amount of prize money to be won monthly in various competitions averages 64,642 USD. Income for players flows from various sources. most professionals earn a salary from professional gaming teams. The Danish gaming organization known as Meet Your Makers reportedly pays their players 300,000 USD on an annual basis.
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