The Esports industry is one of the fastest-growing, and major bookmakers today offer ample coverage of the most important tournaments. First-person shooters, real-time strategy games and MOBAs dominate the landscape, but new games, with original gameplay, such as Fortnite and PUBG are closing the gap.
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The regular seasons of the most important League of Legends tournaments in the world start in January.
In April, the spring playoffs unfold, with the best European, North American, Chinese and South Korean teams in the spotlight.
Bookmakers like GG.Bet covers all these events and offers more than a dozen League of Legends betting markets on each of these prominent events. By the end of the month, the winners of the split will be announced and the second half of the summer season will start.
February is a short but busy month for pre-game and live esports betting, as well as ante-post betting on major tournaments. First-person shooters spend most of the time in the spotlight, as Call of Duty and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major events are scheduled.
The Call of Duty League continues after the launch weekend of late January, with three rounds. The CS:GO BLAST Premier Spring Series 2021 begins on the 4th day of February and concludes on the 14th, with some of the best teams chasing a big prize pool.
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At the end of the month, the action shifts to Poland, with IEM Katowice to host the CSGO and Starcraft II tournaments.
The Call of Duty League continues unabated in March and 22bet will once again dedicate ample coverage to the first-person shooter.
Dota 2 fans get their share of action and the ESL One Los Angeles, as the Dota 2 Pro Circuit that started on 9th January continues in spring.
In April, the Call of Duty League will gain further traction with three new weeks of competitive games. The Overwatch League also has a busy schedule, with three stops in some of the US cities where the game is immensely popular.
PlayersUnknown Battlegrounds will steal the show in the first few days of the month, as the Global Series: Berlin commences. The official dates are yet to be announced, but this is likely to happen in the first few days of April.
CSGO fans and punters will have their hands full in April, with two major events scheduled.
One can bet on the ESL Pro League Season 13 which starts on March 10th and until April 18th at Betway Esports. This is a series of tournaments with a massive prize pool of nearly $2 million, so it represents an important milestone in the Esports Calendar. BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2021: April 13th- April 18th is the other highly anticipated event of this month, bringing together the best CS:GO teams. Rivalry has covered the in the past and punters can expect the bookmaker to pay the same attention to it in 2021.
The VALORANT Challengers Online Open Qualifiers are scheduled to start in May, with the main event to take place in July and August. It has a huge prize pool and it celebrates Riot’s latest game, so there’s plenty of interest and money to be split among participating teams. In mid June, the BLAST Premier Spring Finals 2021 are scheduled for June 16th- June 20th, in anticipation of the ESL One Cologne 2021 which takes place on the first weekend in July.
Fans of League of Legends will be celebrating the 2021 Midseason Invitational taking place between May 1st and May 19. This League of Legends event is held in Taiwan and Vietnam, as a transition between the spring and summer splits. Arcanebet will cover this event in detail, so players will be able to bet on all the games, from the first round all the way to the finals.
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The Esports Calendar also schedules the Overwatch League All-Star weekend in early May and the StarCraft II Dreamhack Dallas 2021 on May 22-24. Throughout the month, the Call of Duty League and Overwatch League have stops scheduled in the US every weekend. Throughout the week, fans of the games can watch the esports streamers broadcasting live action on twitch and YouTube.
At the end of the 2021 Midseason Invitational, the best European, North American, Chinese and South Korean will return to their domestic leagues. The Summer Split will mark the start of the second half of the tournament and the top-performing teams will have a shot at qualifying for the Worlds.
The second of the three major events expected to rock the world of StarCraft players this summer is the ESL Pro Tour Valencia. It starts on July 2 and only concludes on September 4, when the biggest chunk of the $125,000 prize pool will be awarded to the winner. Later this year, punters will have their hands full betting at GG.bet on the ESL Pro Tour Montréal starting on September 11. This is the last important StarCraft II event on the Esports Calendar in 2021 and the best players are expected to participate.
CS:GO Pro players will have another chance of winning a share of $300,000, as the ESL One Cologne starts on July 6. This is the 8th consecutive event to be held in this city and punters will be able to bet on its matches at Unikrn until July 18. Fans of the first-person shooter can either bet on the pro players or try to cash in on their own abilities. The original Unikrn Umode betting options provide this unique opportunity in anticipation of the next big tournament.
Dota 2 fans will also enjoy preferential treatment in August, as The International 10 will bring the best pro gamers into the spotlight. The date is yet to be announced, but we can already predict that the tournament will outshine all the other esports competitions in 2021, just as it did over the last decade.
The Call of Duty League will inevitably reach its conclusion in August, when the best teams will compete in an American city. The location is yet to be determined in the same goes for the official dates, but the winner will be known before the end of summer. Bookmakers are likely to publish the odds a few weeks in advance, as soon as the final round is played in Florida. The tournament has a guaranteed prize pool of $6 million and the winner will walk away with a huge paycheck.
The Overwatch League Playoffs are scheduled to startin October and the winners will be announced in November. For the fans of this shooting hybrid, these are the most anticipated matches of the entire Esports Calendar. In 2019, the event was also watched massively online and punters were able to bet live on every single game, something that will only get better this year after the disappointing 2020. Meanwhile, punters and fans of the game will also be able to bet on the Overwatch Contenders series which runs from August to December.
In the last three months of 2021, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Valorant fans will have their hands full thanks to the major tournaments scheduled. Valorant Champions will be crowned at the end of a tournament that spans over November and December. CS:GO fans will also have an amazing autumn, thanks to the BLAST Premier Fall 2021 Finals scheduled for November 24th – November 28th.
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The cold season is subtly announced by major events that CS:GO will fully appreciate in December. An important event in the Esports Calendar is the BLAST Premier Global Finals 2021: December 14th – December 18th which lasts for nearly a week. This is a short but intense competition that will bring the best teams together for a final showdown.
Without a shred of a down, the most anticipated and best-paying tournaments of 2021 will be The International Dota 2 and the League of Legends World Championship events. Punters will once again be pleasantly surprised to discover hundreds of great betting opportunities at Betway on both tournaments. The International Dota 2 starts in August and lasts for one week; it is expected to set a new record for the biggest prizes ever award in esports. This is the most anticipated event in the entire Esports Calendar for Dota 2 fans and punters can bet live on the matches or play and the post wagers.
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The 2021 League of Legends World Championship official dates and prizes are not yet official and we don’t know the complete schedule of the Main Event. Twelve teams participate in the play-in stage that starts in October and concludes six days later. They will be divided into four groups of three teams each, with the top two teams to advance to the main event. The final stage of the competition will last for an entire month, with the semifinals and finals scheduled for November. The winner of the LOL Worlds 2021 will be revealed in November in Shenzhen in front of a huge and enthusiastic Chinese audience.
