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World of Warcraft – BlizzCon 2014 – Prize Pool $250,000. Won by European team Bleached Bones, that split $120,000 top prize 3 ways.

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HearthStone: Heroes of WarCraft – BlizzCon 2014 – Prize Pool $250,000. Won by American Firebat, who took the top prize of $100,000 for himself.

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Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CSGO) – ESL One Cologne 2015 – Prize Pool $250,000. Won by Swedish team Fnatic, who took home $100,000

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#5 – World of Tanks – WGL Grand Finals 2015 – $300,000

To round out the top 5 we have World of Tanks, by WarGaming. This final was played in Warsaw, Poland and was won by mixed Russian, Ukraine and Belarus team HellRaisers. They took home $150,000.

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#4 – Call of Duty (Blackops 2 / Ghost / Advanced Warefare / Modern Warfare 3) – COD World Championship 2014/15 – $1,000,000

Call of Duty Championship 2015 took place in Los Angeles, California, from March 27th-29th 2015. Four years running Call of Duty have used their latest titles to host world championships, with a consistent prize pool of $1,000,000.

Denial eSports won, snatching $400,000 collectively against rivals Revenge.

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#3 – League of Legends – LoL World Championship 2014 – $2,130,000

The world’s biggest eSports title “The World Championship 2014 (also known as Season 4 World Championship) was a tournament hosted by Riot Games, in which sixteen qualified teams from around the world compete to determine the League of Legends Season 4 World Champions.

The winners of the event were the always strong Korean team Samsung Galaxy White, who collected a paycheck of $1,000,000.

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#2 – Smite – Smite World Championship 2015 – $2,612,259

In January, eight of the world’s most elite professional Smite teams converged on Atlanta, Georgia, to crown the best smite team on the planet. With a prize pool of over $2.6 Million on offer (as a result of their Odyssey crowd-sourcing campaign), Hi-Rez Studios is now officially offering the fifth largest prize pool in the history of eSports.

Yet again an American team were favorites, and won the event giving Cognitive Prime a cool $1,306,130 for the team to take home.

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#1 – Dota 2 – The International 2015 – $18,429,613

The fifth edition of The International, an eSports Dota 2 championship tournament, took place at KeyArena Center in Seattle, Washington. Hosted by Valve Corporation, the tournament began on May 25th with the qualifier phase and ended after the main event between August 3rd and August 8th.

The tournament awarded the biggest prize pool in eSports history, at over $18 million. The winning team, Evil Geniuses were awarded $6,634,660, with each player in the team taking home over $1.3 million each. This is a fairly large sum, which just becomes even larger after the same team months before this event, ended up taking out The Dota Asia Championships winning $1,284,158.

Hell even for losing the grand final your team became millionaires and coming in 3rd, 4th, 5th and even 6th made your team over a million!

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This old man, a retired shop owner from Belgium, was refused a permit to construct a garage door in his former shop. This man was left no choice, so he build it anyway.

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A breathtaking underground plant kingdom was discovered in Hubei province, China. Because of the local Karst landscape and humid climate, a sinkhole over 290 meters (951 feet) deep was formed, where a unique ecosystem has developed.

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Inside the sinkhole you can observe palm trees, vines, moss, swallows, butterflies and other wildlife. For a very long time, the access to the sinkhole was possible by only scaling a long rope which allowed the hole to develop an independent eco-system.

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This phenomenon is a clear example of the power of nature and how it is able to survive and adapt to any climatic and environmental circumstances.

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When Chay Yu Wei won a competition for a great amateur photo held by Nikon people were impressed. He said he saw these steps in China Town and took a pic not knowing about that a plane will be flying there.

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Nikon congratulated him..

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...people were amazed...

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...but someone put his photo under examination and found out it was photoshopped. The plane was ADDED IN!

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People on the internet responded quickly.

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"Oh, I took a picture not knowing Godzilla will attack there."

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"I took a picture of a ladder not knowing that a wedding was taking place on it".

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"I took a picture not knowing that Bond will be shoo..."

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"I never expected Van Damme to be there".

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"Hans and his buddies? I never expected Nakatomi Plaza to be attacked!"

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"Here is Waldo!"

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"That's not a scam! I have a lens just like Chay Yu Wei."

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We don't know what the "author" of photo had to say but Nikon admitted they were fooled. Nikon took it quite well, did not say "Never happened" like many in their place and also... said that they might hold a new contest, this one for the best spoof of the famous photo.

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This vault is designed to store valuable seeds from crops all over the world if some worst-case scenario happens on Earth, like climate change, nuclear war or some environmental degradation or some other global crisis. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a highly secured seed bank that is situated on the Norwegian island between the mainland and the North Pole.

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Svalbard is the northernmost place in the world that still has scheduled flights, according to The Crop Trust, the group in charge of the global seed-bank system.

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It's more than 400 feet above sea level, and there's little moisture in the air.

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Since the vault is buried in permafrost, it could stay frozen at least 200 years, even if the power were to go out.

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The vault has seeds from more than 60 institutions and almost every country in the world, collected from the more than 1,500 global gene banks that store samples of seeds from all the crops native to the region they're in.

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The Svalbard vault is the central fail-safe for all those seed banks.

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Backups are sent to Svalbard in case a disaster ruins the samples at the home seed bank.

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That way, the genetic diversity of crops around the world is kept safe.

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Seed samples are sent to Svalbard in large boxes, which are scanned with X-rays after they get to the island to make sure that they have nothing but seeds inside.

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The rooftop and part of the facade of the building is a work of art, since all public buildings in Norway are legally required to have art.

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The vault is unlocked only for deposits, which happen three or four times a year.

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There are five doors with coded locks that anyone looking to get into the vault has to pass through.

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Plus, The Crop Trust says that polar bears — which outnumber humans on the island — provide an extra "layer of security."

The warning sign says "Applies to all of Svalbard territory."

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The temperature inside is kept to minus 18 degrees Celsius, cold enough to keep the sealed seeds viable for — in some cases — thousands of years.

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Inside, seeds are moved to a trolley and rolled into the vault's main chamber.

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So far, there are more than 860,000 samples in the vault, collected since Svalbard opened in 2008. Each sample contains 500 seeds.

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But there's enough space in the vault's three main rooms to store 4.5 million samples, which would be more than 2 billion seeds.

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The seeds arrive sealed in foil and are kept inside sealed boxes to prevent any spoilage.

A seed sample is filled at a center in Texcoco, on the outskirts of Mexico City.

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In 2015, the ICARDA Seed Bank, which had been in Syria, withdrew samples from the vault — a first — so it could move and restore its seed bank, which had been damaged by war.

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That showed that the vault could serve its function, but hopefully there will be no need for another withdrawal in the near future.

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