$500,000+ Esports Prize Money for October, WoW is on top.

Carmac over at SK-gaming.com wrote an interesting article on how much money is being given out across all of the major esports titles for the month of October.

Prize money breakdown by game
1) $202,500 - World of Warcraft ($30,000 EM III LA, $22,500 MLG Dallas, $120,000 BlizzCon, $30,000 EM III Montreal)
2) $176,000 - Counter-Strike 1.6 ($50,000 EM III LA, $26,000 WCG USA, $50,000 EM III Montreal, $50,000 EM III Dubai)
3) $60,200 - Warcraft 3 ($5,200 WCG USA, $40,000 BlizzCon, $15,000 ESWC Athens)
4) $45,200 - StarCraft ($5,200 WCG USA, $40,000 Blizzcon)
5) $15,000 - Quake 3 (ESWC Athens)

WoW comes out on top.

Not bad for such a low-skilled game eh?  Well anyway, I also wanted to figure out how much each individual could make if they placed 1st in every event of their respected game.  I know it's impossible for each team to attend every event(such as EM LA and MLG Dallas), but I just wanted to see.

You also have to remember that Counter-strike is 5v5, WoW is 3v3 and War3/SC/Q3 are 1v1.  Also, the numbers above are the TOTAL prize pool for each event.  I had to find out the 1st place prizes myself.  I could not find the 1st place blizzcon prizes for war3 and sc but I assume they are 25,000. 

If you could achieve 1st place in each event you would earn:
1. World of Warcraft -40,000
2. WC3-35,500
3. SC-28,000
4. CS 1.6-23,000
5. Q3-7,500.

There's no doubt that blizzcon is giving a HUGE boost to these winnings, but hey...this is just what the numbers happen to be for October.  These numbers don't include salaries of players as well.