NUMBER_TOKEN million dollars that is the biggest prize pool ever awarded to professional gamers however not every gaming tournament pays their players well sometimes gaming tournaments don't pay their players at all or they award players strange prizes like lifetime supplies of fast food gaming hardware or the underwear of an adult actress yeah that really happened in today's video we'll take a look at some of the weirder prizes gamers have won for winning gaming tournaments but before we get into that this video is sponsored by the buff app buff is a loyalty program by overwolf that literally rewards you for playing the games you would already be playing the app runs in the background only tracking your in-game stats and gives you points for all the games you play sure maybe you lost all of your lp last game but at least you gain some buff points these points can later be exchanged for a variety of rewards like in-game skins steam credits gift cards for the games you play and even gift cards for dominoes you could theoretically feed yourself and your family through the power of gaming if this sounds good to you download buff for free with the first link in the description with that being said let's jump into the video getting straight into things and setting the tone for the video for number five in NUMBER_TOKEN after winning a local video game tournament the winner was rewarded with not cash but oranges you may have seen this before as this picture traversed the internet as a meme a few years ago specifically it went viral after being posted on NUMBER_TOKENchan the post goes like this find out my country has splatoon tournaments nice i'll participate the winner of the last one got a bunch of oranges but apparently being paid in obscure food products is not so uncommon in the amateur esports scene as back in august of NUMBER_TOKEN a cs go team in poland were awarded with sausages for winning a tournament however they unfortunately didn't share a picture of these sausages but they did state that they were worth over NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN dollars
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN but before we get into that this video is sponsored by the buff app buff is a loyalty program by overwolf that literally rewards you for playing the games you would already be playing the app runs in the background only tracking your in-game stats and gives you points for all the games you play sure maybe you lost all of your lp last game but at least you gain some buff points these points can later be exchanged for a variety of rewards like in-game skins steam credits gift cards for the games you play and even gift cards for dominoes you could theoretically feed yourself and your family through the power of gaming if this sounds good to you download buff for free with the first link in the description with END_SPONSOR_TOKEN