Vulcun.com has a $4 million prize pool for fantasy e-sports.
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Vulcun.com bumps its e-sports prize pool to $4M

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Vulcun.com announced today that it is increasing its 2015 prize pool for its fantasy sports tournament for League of Legends fans to $4 million.

With Vulcun, fans can assemble teams of their favorite e-sports players and bet real money in a contest. If their players do well in the League of Legends (LoL) Championship Season, the fans can then win real money. League is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), where teams of players use their hero characters fight each other and destroy the opposing squad’s base, and it’s the most popular online game in the world, according to gamer social network Raptr.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.