If you are registered for Skillz, you are probably collecting winnings from a esport's prize pool that is worth around half a million dollars.

According to state of the union, "Players collectively earn over $675,000 in prizes on average, every single day."

What is Skillz?

Skillz is a mobile app that showcases lots causal and formal tournaments every day. These tournaments includes games like...

  • Solitaire
  • Mahjong 
  •  ETC 

These tournaments do give out money for prizes. Which gives the app more of a more eSports type feel.

Skillz is growing really fast. They have lots of people using there app. And in just 5 months they doubled their revenue! Skillz believes why they are doing so good is because the increase of phone users.

People are predicting that eSports industry will be worth over $1billion very soon. Some even believe most of this money will come from mobile esports other than pc or console. Right now mobile games actually do take up more of the revenue compared to pc and console.

"There will actually be more smartphones and tablets than people," Paradise told CNBC. "So when you think about what that means for the future of gaming and the future of esports, I think it has to be mobile because software will have to follow hardware."

The rising popularity of the eSports industry is allowing new entry ways for companies and people to earn money. It is crazy to think that we can stay at home playing video games and still earn a living. When these types of things were not possible a couple of years ago.