Over the period from 2011 to 2021, the number of international awards won by Finnish films increased overall. The number peaked in 2015 at ** awards. In 2021, Finnish films were awarded ** international prizes.

In 2020, the award count of managed services contracts stood at *****. Overall, the managed services market is growing. At the same time, total contract value (TCV) is decreasing because contracts are getting shorter, as contract terms today are around three years.

Throughout 2023, movies from the Netherlands won ** international awards. Feature films and documentaries accounted for ** and * of the prizes won that year, respectively. Dutch movies' annual production value grew by ** percent in 2021.

Individual awards won by Messi vs Ronaldo against World Champions in 2021 and many other statistics about the greatest rivalry in football history

Individual awards won by Messi vs Ronaldo in finals of FIFA World Cup in 2021 and many other statistics about the greatest rivalry in football history

The International 2021, a Dota 2 competition, was the most successful e-sports tournament for professional players from Russia in terms of total prize money won over the period from 2017 to 2024. Russian participants won approximately ** million U.S. dollars at The International 2021. To compare, at The International 2023, the players earned over *** million U.S. dollars.

As of 2023, there were a cumulative total of ** winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in Japan. Eight won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Syukuro Manabe for his physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability, and reliably predicting global warming.

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Russian e-sports players earned more than ** million U.S. dollars in professional tournaments from January 1 to December 10, 2024, down from nearly ** million U.S. dollars in the whole year 2023. The most successful e-sports tournament for Russian players in recent years was The International 2021, a Dota 2 competition. In 2022, Russian players were suspended from several e-sports competitions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In 2024, the Game Awards ceremony reached its highest number of live stream viewers, with 154 million people watching the event across multiple platforms and networks worldwide. The event, which is one of the biggest award shows of the game industry, has experienced a positive growth rate in terms of global audience engagement during the measured period. In 2020, the number of viewers reportedly grew of 84 percent year-over-year, and almost of 103 percent when compared to audience numbers for 2018. The global audience growth trajectory of the Game Awards stands in contrast to the fluctuating numbers of Academy Awards viewers as the number of Americans who watched the Academy Awards ceremony in 2021 was the lowest registered yet from which the annual awards show has only just started to recover.

Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game released by Valve in 2013. The world's top Dota 2 players compete in an annual eSports competition known as The International. The International 13, Dota's 2024 championship which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, had a total prize pool of just under 2.6 million U.S. dollars. Dota 2 heroes When playing Dota 2, two opposing teams of five players each take control of a character, referred to as a hero in game, to demolish a structure within the enemy team’s base. As of 2025, Pudge was the most popular hero in Dota 2 based on the number of matches played with the character. Focusing on the win rate of the playable characters, however, showed that Abaddon was the most successful Dota 2 hero in the 12 months preceding January 2025. Meanwhile, the hero known as Medusa had the highest KDA – which refers to the number of kills and assists per death – out of all the Dota 2 heroes in the same time period. Popular video game genres While multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games do entice many gamers, it is not the most popular type of video game genre worldwide. According to the Statista Global Consumer Survey, action games, including, but not limited to, platformers and fighting games, were the most popular video game genre for players in the United States. Elsewhere, roleplaying games were the most popular computer games in South Korea as of 2023. While the former studies were focused on casual gamers in their respective countries, a survey focusing on eSports fans in China found that MOBA games were the most popular genre for Chinese eSports fans.

The United States holds the highest number of winners of the Nobel Peace Prize with ** winners. The most recent U.S. citizen to win the prize was former President Barack Obama in 2009. The United Kingdom holds the second highest number of winners with **, whereas both Switzerland and UN organizations had received ** each. In 2024, the prize was awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work against nuclear weapons. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually to people or organizations who make a substantial commitment to promote peace around the world.

Those who participate in eSports tournaments have the chance to take home considerable cash prizes. Call of Duty, League of Legends (LOL), and other popular franchises tend to have some of the highest prize pools. As of December 2024, the estimated prize money for *** tournaments amounted to around **** million U.S. dollars for that year. This figure peaked in 2015 at nearly ** million U.S. dollars. How many people watch the League of Legends World Championship? League of Legends is not only popular among players, but also among eSports viewers. As of December 2023, the League of Legends 2023 World Championship, also known as “Worlds,” managed to rank as the most watched eSports event of all time, with a recorded *** million peak viewers. In comparison, **** million LoL fans tuned in to watch the previous year’s championship game. How popular is League of Legends on social media? While plenty of fans tune in to see the franchise’s championship event each year, others are happy to watch via social media platforms such as Twitch. In December 2024, the average number of League of Legends viewers on Twitch totaled roughly ******. This figure peaked at ******* in October 2021, when the animated series Arcane, which is based on the game, was released on Netflix.

The highest earning World of Warcraft e-sporter from Russia was Sergei Gaponov under the username Lagyna. The gamer's total amount of monetary prize won in professional tournaments in that discipline amounted to 57.7 thousand U.S. dollars from April 2007 to September 2021. The average number of viewers of WOW on Twitch worldwide reached approximately 30.1 thousand in December 2021.

The eSport tournament that has offered the greatest overall prize pool as of June 2025 was ‘The International 2021’, with a total prize pool of over 40 million U.S. dollars. The most recent edition of the Dota 2 eSports tournament, ‘The International’, took place in Denmark in September 2024. Previous iterations of ‘The International’ have consistently offered the greatest prize pool in each respective year and, as such, constitute the top seven eSports tournaments within this ranking. The International ‘The International’ was originally organized as a promotional event for the release of Dota 2 and has subsequently been held each year with a growing prize pool, contributed primarily by crowdfunding sources. Players are offered the opportunity to purchase a form of battle pass known as a ‘Compendium’ that offers additional content within the game, with a quarter of the revenue generated through ‘Compendium’ sales directly contributing to the prize pool. Online streaming platforms The popularity of both eSports as an entity and, by extension, eSports events, is largely driven by the growing availability of online streaming platforms, such as Youtube and Twitch. This allows a variety of eSports organizations and personnel to offer a range of live commentary, retrospective analysis, match predictions, and player interviews, both independently and in cooperation with eSports events. Twitch, for example, has hosted live streams of the ‘League of Legends World Championship’ since 2012, and ‘The International’ since 2013, with multiple streams available in a range of different languages.

Since 1982, the prize money awarded to FIFA World Cup winners has substantially increased in absolute terms, hitting eight figures from the 2006 World Cup onwards. After winning the 2022 tournament, Argentina received 42 million U.S. dollars in prize money.

Prize money at the FIFA World Cup is distributed according to performance, with Argentina receiving a handsome payout of 42 million U.S. dollars for winning the 2022 tournament. The overall prize pool for the 2022 World Cup amounted to 440 million U.S. dollars, representing a 40 million U.S. dollar increase on the previous tournament.

Piotr Peschke, playing under the ID ealien_, was the highest-earning World of Tanks player in Poland as of May 2021. Peschke is the leading World of Tanks player in the entire country. Between 2011 and 2021, the e-sports player accumulated over ** thousand U.S. dollars in prize money earnings.

The eSports game with the greatest tournament prize pool between January and June 2025 was Dota 2, recording a cumulative prize pool valued at 6.84 million U.S. dollars. This cumulative prize pool was significantly higher than the runner-up, Counter-Strike 2, which had a cumulative prize pool of 4.9 million U.S. dollars during this period. Dota 2 Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena video game (MOBA) developed by Valve Software as a follow-up to 'Defense of the Ancients,' a community-created mod for the game 'Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.' In an effort to grow the popularity of DOTA 2 amongst ‘Defense of the Ancients’ players and to further promote the release of DOTA 2, the development company invited 16 of the world’s leading ‘Defense of the Ancients’ players to participate in a ‘DOTA 2’ tournament, an event that would eventually be held annually. It is this annual event, now referred to as ‘The International’, that offers such a substantial tournament prize pool and results in DOTA 2 consistently offering the greatest cumulative prize pool of any eSports game. eSports overview Whilst competitions have long since been a component of the video gaming industry, it wasn’t until relatively recently that eSports as a professional form of competitive video game play grew in popularity, with video game developers often organizing and funding many of the most popular eSport tournaments, which involve games such as League of Legends, Dota 2, Counter-Strike, Valorant, Overwatch, Street Fighter, Super Smash Bros., and StarCraft. These tournaments often incorporate either multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), first-person shooter (FPS), combat, card, battle royale, and real-time strategy (RTS) games. The most prominent types of video games associated with eSport tournaments include multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), first-person shooter (FPS), fighting, card, battle royale and real-time strategy (RTS) games.

The Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is an annual award given to the player deemed to have had the biggest impact on Major League Baseball's championship series. In 2024, the World Series MVP was Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers.