I've recently compiled a spreadsheet of every high level 1v1 FAF tournament I could find with a prize pool. For the sake of simplicity, I've defined this as 1v1 tournaments that allow high level players to participate. This excludes teamgame tournaments, rating restricted tournaments, showmatches, and tournaments with weird formats. If anyone wants the raw data, feel free to msg me on discord.
To the best of my ability I've cataloged every tournament that meets the above definition with a prize pool since FAF was created. A full list is below and I know that I've missed things so if you have tournaments that I missed please send them to me. I might expand this dataset to include all FAF events at some point.
The juicy stats:
There has been $10337.76 given away since 2012 in high level FAF 1v1 tournaments, with $4,222.01 in 2020 and 2021 so far.
Prize money by year:
Early FAF was dominated by no prizepool or low prize pool tournaments. There are dozens of random blitz tournaments for avatars littered throughout the forums. We started to see serious tournaments for 1v1s starting in 2015 with the $500 Prime Commander tournament. Then in 2016 we had the 1st year of LoTS which has been huge for high level 1v1 tournaments.
LoTS has accounted for $6333.25 in FAF prize pools or 61.2% of all prize money. For reference, the seasonal invitationals have had a combined prize pool of $1527.01 or 14.7% of the total.
Prize money by player:
I have 43 different players in the spreadsheet, 16 of which have earned >$100. Petric is the highest earning player with $2028.15 earned across 11 tournaments. Nexus has the most tournaments with winnings with 12. The top 4 earning player, Petric, Nexus, Blackheart, and Adjux account for a majority (57.5%) of all earnings.
Current tournament list:
- IMBA Cup
- IMBA Cup II
- Grand Masters Cup
- The Universal Resurrection Cup
- Prime Commander 1v1 Tournament
- 2016 LoTS
- 1st 2017 Blitz
- 2017 LoTS
- The Galaxy Cup 2018
- 2018 LoTS
- FAF Masters Cup 1v1
- 2019 LoTS
- 1v1 All Welcome
- Blitz Tournament Series
- 2020 Summer Invitational
- 2020 Fall Invitational
- 2020 LoTS
- 2021 Spring Invitational
- 1v1 Mapgen Tournament
- 2021 April League Invitational