19 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Monopoly

13. There's A Monopoly Championship

And it takes place every year, no less. In fact, the Monopoly World Championships have been played every year since 1973, with the top prize is $20,580. It's actually a whole thing, with regional qualifiers and everything, as if it was a proper sport or something. Which it...sort of is?

It varies from country to country and year to year, but right now to qualify you arerequired to get 80% correct on a 20-question quiz that tested your knowledge of Monopoly strategy and history, submit an essay on the game, and then you could play through the regional competitions before jetting to Las Vegas for the final.