8 Strangest Things Ever Won At A Video Game Event

You know what’s brilliant about playing video games? It’s the fact that, at their very core, there’s a relationship going on between the program itself and the player, a cycle of rewarding skill, patience and sometimes putting in a lot of coins with stimulating sounds and feedback.

It’s that sense of winning, of achieving high scores and of beating levels that drives us, because essentially we’re looking at the experience as a rewarding one.

So what could make this even better? Rewarding you for playing this already rewarding experience that's what. With the rise of eSports and competitions for video games, we’re now entering into a period of gaming that has never been more lucrative.

However it’s not always just bank balances that are satiated with victories at a competitive level, as this list discovers. Some utterly silly prizes have been doled out to players attending events; for example, our editor Oasley once won a mouse mat at a Rocket League event. One mouse mat. Between a team of four. Excellent.

That seemed like a bloody bounty in comparison to these other prizes though...