This site is missing literally MILLIONS of US dollars in prize money from dozens of major eSports from Asia.

It's an absolute embarrassment that anyone can take this site seriously as a resource for global eSports. Especially any mainstream media outlets looking to use it as reference. This entire website needs a giant asterisk on its front page acknowledging that it’s missing nearly all of Korea’s eSport history and should not be taken as a serious resource for global eSports.

If we total the number of years of eSport games in Korea that are missing here it's EASILY over 100 years missing. These are games that have been established on television long before streaming reached the west. These are games that have had eSport scenes around since professional Brood War was at its peak, many well older than League of Legends or Counterstrike: Global Offensive. These are games that have professional leagues and teams participating in their 8th or 9th or higher season with news coverage.

Here’s just a brief incomplete list of various eSport games that I see missing all Korean domestic and international leagues and tournaments with prize achievements that each individually easily surpass the “$59,505.90 career Soul Calibur V prize money” as the “100th Top Game awarding Prize Money” on this website.

Kart Rider

Sudden Attack

Sudden Attack 2

Special Force

Special Force 2

A.V.A

Black Squad Night

FIFA Online 2

FIFA Online 3

Cyphers

Dungeon & Fighter

VainGlory

Blade & Soul

Tekken 7 Crash

And more and more and more.

We’re talking about a SERIOUS misrepresentation of global eSports earnings and what eSports actually looks like on a global scale. We’re missing literally hundreds and hundreds of Korean tournaments worth tens of thousands of dollars each or more and thousands of tournaments worth thousands of dollars each going back to before 2005.

Take out DOTA2 and we’re missing many Koreas from the eSports top earners list. For example, Moon Ho Joon should have well over $200,000 in career earnings from Kart Rider. Not just $517.66 as career earnings from a 1 season starcraft career, http://www.esportsearnings.com/players/10957-booster-ho-joon-moon

I cannot emphasize how much this website is missing by not including these Korean eSports. These aren’t tiny $50 local tournaments either. These are full blooded eSports with tens of thousands of dollars or more per placement, not tournament, and with full broadcasts and decade long history.

Here are just a handful of videos showcasing some of these Korean eSports that are flat out missing from this website.

Kart Rider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kl9aypCxK8

Sudden Attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2byYsFmYhac

Sudden Attack 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpR_ion2aY

Special Force https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxmfzJJ1LV0

Special Force 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VphTyrNn5M

FIFA ONLINE 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvyyXZEt2IE

Black Squad Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7W3MkvMVI8

Tekken 7 Crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpt692unm0I

Cyphers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AF74UwxAHU

And there’s so much more missing from history.

Here’s a mobile FPS game 백발백중

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb1LEfHyjJE this single tournament is worth $25,000 alone. And it's not like this game is just that one tournament, there’s others too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-xGiNPNx9A

Here’s a mobile MOBA game with over $350,000 awarded in prize money in 2015

VainGlory https://youtu.be/QSEiSsojFjE?t=14m38s

Anybody who cares about the integrity of this website as an accurate reference must spend 30 seconds on each of these youtube videos skimming through them.

As it stands, this website is incredibly inaccurate and is a serious gross misportrayal of eSports on a global stage and the history of eSports. Korea's biggest esports may have been Starcraft Brood War in the past and League of Legends in the present, but to deny the existence of almost literally every single other major eSport in Korea, most of which survive in some form to this day is a complete farce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfrRzADZ7q4 Just look at Kart Rider for example.

At the very very least this site should at least acknowledge that it has incomplete information about these major eSports instead of obsessively focusing on recording every $80 tournament.