Pricing
Watching is free and always will be. Playing is a subscription, on three tiers, and every tier can earn from day one. Your fans pay you directly, at prices you set, and OPLeague keeps 20 percent of that.
Watching is free. Playing is not.
A free account can watch every bracket and read every profile. It cannot enter a bracket, because entry is part of this tier.
- Most brackets and tournaments, and the ladder
- The launcher, the network and Nova (opens in a new tab)
- A listed pro-gamer profile
- Fan subscriptions turned on, at prices you set
- Replay storage for your last 20 games
- Payouts monthly
$10 of every $25 goes into the prize pool
Every tier puts the same 40 percent of its price into the pot. Pro puts in more dollars because it costs more, and the pot is paid out to whoever wins.
- Everything in Amateur
- Every bracket and tournament, including the Pro-only ones
- Ladder stakes up 25 percent: every win is worth more, every loss costs more
- Merchandise and sponsorships on your profile
- Affiliate links, tracked and paid through us
- Eligible to be featured in discovery and on the games you play
- Clear data on who your fans are, where they came from, and when they leave
- Replay and VOD storage for everything you play
- Payouts weekly
A contract, not a price on a page
Signed separately, priced against the work, and either side can say no.
- Everything in Pro
- Ladder stakes up 50 percent: every win is worth more, every loss costs more
- OMI Firm runs your brand strategy, as a client
- We find, negotiate and manage your sponsorships
- First call on casting, features and league interviews
- Payouts weekly, and first in the run
Partner has no price on this page because it is not a price. It is a contract with OMI Firm, priced against what the work actually is, signed separately, and either side can say no. Pro-gamer is not a tier you buy: it is what you are once you play here.
What a higher tier changes
Three things move with the tier. Everything about how a game is played does not.
Ladder stakes
A higher tier plays for more
Every ladder game moves your rating. On the higher tiers it moves further, both ways: a win is worth more, and a loss costs more. The ladder is the same ladder; the swing per game is what changes.
- Amateur
- Standard swing
- Pro
- 25% more, on wins and on losses
- Partner
- 50% more, on wins and on losses
Brackets
Some brackets are Pro-only
Most brackets and tournaments are open to every tier. Here and there a bracket is marked Pro-only, and it takes a Pro or Partner tier to enter. The tournaments page says which is which.
- Amateur
- Most brackets
- Pro
- Every bracket
- Partner
- Every bracket
What never changes
The game is the same game
- No softer bracket and no bye
- No reschedule or rematch the other tiers do not get
- No map veto the other tiers do not get
- No point for a game you did not play
- The same disputes, the same rules, the same referees
Where your subscription goes
40 cents in every dollar paid for access goes straight back out as prize money. You are funding the pot you play for. A Partner contract is marketing work invoiced separately, so it is not part of this split.
Every access dollar, split three ways
-
40% prize pool
-
40% keeping it running
-
20% building it
Season 1 · prize pool so far
$1,177
47 Amateur and 12 Pro subscriptions, 40 percent of each into the pot, every month since the season opened. Every payout is listed under Results the day it leaves.
- Paying gamers
- 59
- Added this month
- $214
- Leaves the account
- First of every month
- Can be spent on
- Prize money, nothing else
Illustrative example, so you can see how the pot fills. The live figure takes this place as subscriptions arrive.
60%
Per bracket
Split between the winner and the runner-up of each bracket that month.
30%
Season champion
Held back and paid to whoever tops the ladder when the season closes.
10%
Rolls over
Kept back to seed the first bracket of the next season, so it never starts empty.
Side by side
Every difference between the tiers, in one table. The last block is what no tier changes.
| What | Amateur $5 / mo | Pro $25 / mo | Partner Custom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Playing | |||
| Price | $5 / mo | $25 / mo | Custom |
| Brackets and tournaments | Most | All, including Pro-only | All, including Pro-only |
| Ladder stakes, on every win and loss | Standard | +25% both ways | +50% both ways |
| The launcher, the network and Nova | yes | yes | yes |
| Replay storage | Last 20 | Everything | Everything |
| Earning | |||
| Fan subscriptions, at prices you set | yes | yes | yes |
| Merchandise and sponsorships on your profile | no | yes | yes |
| Affiliate links, tracked and paid through us | no | yes | yes |
| Eligible to be featured in discovery | no | yes | yes |
| Clear data on who your fans are, and when they leave | no | yes | yes |
| Payouts | Monthly | Weekly | Weekly, first in the run |
| Service | |||
| OMI Firm runs your brand | no | no | yes |
| Sponsorships found, negotiated and managed for you | no | no | yes |
| First call on casting, features and interviews | no | no | yes |
| The same for everyone | |||
| Bracket seeding | Same | Same | Same |
| Byes, reschedules and rematches | Same | Same | Same |
| Map vetoes | Same | Same | Same |
| Dispute appeals | Same | Same | Same |
What your fans pay you
Your fans subscribe to you directly, and you set your own price. We do not fix it, suggest a house rate or cap it. We keep 20 percent of what arrives through the league, and the rest is yours. The test is where the money arrived, not what kind of thing was sold.
| How the money reaches you | Our cut |
|---|---|
|
Fan subscriptions | 20% |
|
Company sponsorships | 20% |
|
Merchandise and affiliate links | 20% |
|
Anything earned off the site | Nothing |
Backing a player is not a tier
Subscribing to a gamer you like does not put you on the ladder and does not make you a pro-gamer. You stay a fan, you get no player email, and everything free stays free.
Why playing is not free
A private network, a bot that has to be hosted somewhere, and a prize pool that has to come from somewhere are the three things that cost money. Charging for those is what keeps ads and sponsors-only brackets out of the league.
The fee, in full
A refunded payment is not charged a fee. The 20 percent is taken at payout rather than on arrival, every line of it is itemized, and if the rate ever changes you get thirty days notice and it never reaches backwards into money you have already earned. What you earn away from here is none of our business and we take none of it.
Before you decide
The five things people ask on this page.
Do I have to pay to play?
Yes. Watching is free forever, and entering a bracket is part of the Amateur tier. Every tier is a full membership: your ladder place, your profile, your replays and most brackets. The higher tiers add reach, storage, payout speed, the Pro-only brackets and higher ladder stakes.
Can I cancel whenever?
Yes, from your account settings, and you keep everything until the end of the period you already paid for. Your profile, your ladder place and your results stay exactly where they are afterwards, because you earned them.
What happens to my replays if I move down a tier?
Your last 20 stay. Anything older stays downloadable for thirty days after the change, then it leaves our storage. Your results and your rating are untouched; only the files go.
Do you take a cut of the prize pool?
No. The pool is 40 cents of every access dollar, it leaves on the first of the month, and it leaves in full. Our share is the running and building cents in the bar above, and that is the whole of it.
Is there a discount for a whole clan?
Not yet. Ask, and we count the asks; the first clan that wants one is how we find out what it should be.
Watch first if you want
Every bracket is public and every free replay is downloadable without an account. Pay when you want to be in one.