Esports World Cup will offer 'life-changing sum' to top competitors

The Esports World Cup (EWC) volition diagnostic the champion competitory gamers from crossed the globe, and the unit got much aggravated connected Thursday arsenic a record-breaking prize excavation was announced.

The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) announced a prize excavation of much than $70 million, which volition marque the lawsuit among the astir prestigious successful sports.

The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and tally from July 7 to Aug. 24.

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The Esports World Cup trophy successful 2023. (Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS)

"The record-breaking $70+ cardinal prize pool, on with our committedness to the Club Partner Program and our multi-year steadfast agreements, is simply a privilege to denote and validation of our intent to elevate the industry, by giving players, clubs, publishers and each different stakeholders the stableness needed to put for aboriginal success," Esports World Cup CEO Ralf Reichert said successful a quality release.

"While much than $70 cardinal is an incredible, life-changing sum, it’s ever aligned with a semipermanent imaginativeness alternatively than short-term impact. It’s not conscionable to person much wealth astatine stake, but to make opportunities for everyone astatine each level of the ecosystem, and fortify the manufacture for generations to come."

There are 25 tournaments taking spot successful 24 games truthful far.

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Kid Cudi connected signifier for the Esports World Cup. (Esports World Cup)

Esports World Cup officials said the games include: Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Call of Duty: Warzone, Chess, Counter-Strike 2, Crossfire, Dota 2, EA Sports FC 25, FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves, Free Fire, Honor of Kings, League of Legends, Mobile Legends Bang Bang, Overwatch 2, PUBG BATTLEGROUNDS, PUBG Mobile, Rainbow Six Siege, Rennsport, Rocket League, Starcraft II, Street Fighter 6, Teamfight Tactics, and VALORANT.

There are besides 40 clubs that person joined the EWCF Club Partner Program up of the Esports World Cup, including: 100 Thieves, All Gamers, Bilibili Gaming, Cloud9, Edward Gaming, EVOS, FaZe Clan, Fnatic, FURIA, G2 Esports, Gaimin Gladiators, Gen.G, Gentle Mates, HEROIC, JD Gaming, Karmine Corp., Movistar KOI, LEVIATAN, LOUD, MOUZ, NAVI, NIP.eStar, ONIC, POWR, REJECT, S8UL, Sentinels, T1, Team BDS, Team Falcons, Team Liquid, Team RRQ, Team Secret, Team Spirit, Team Vitality, Twisted Minds, Virtus.pro, Weibo Gaming, Wolves Esports, ZETA DIVISION.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, center, and Saudi sports curate Prince Abdul Aziz bin Turki Al-Faisal during the announcement successful October 2023. (Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS)

Team Falcons won the Club Championship and a $7 cardinal prize successful the inaugural lawsuit past year.

The remainder of the prize excavation "will beryllium divided into 3 organisation categories: Game Championships, MVP Awards, and Qualifiers connected the Road to EWC. Each of the Game Championships volition person its prize excavation with a combined full exceeding $38 million. In addition, a $450,000 MVP Award excavation volition beryllium allocated to standout participants crossed each competitions," organizers said. More than $5 cardinal volition beryllium awarded to Road to EWC qualifiers.

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"Winning the Club Championship crown and $7 cardinal astatine the inaugural Esports World Cup was a defining infinitesimal for Team Falcons," Team Falcons CEO Mosaad Al-Dossary said successful a quality release. "The accidental to vie successful beforehand of our location fans, wherever they made the arenas shingle with each large play, motivated america similar ne'er before, and it was an grant to unafraid the triumph for them. 

"We’ve utilized the momentum and winnings from past twelvemonth to physique connected our occurrence and we look guardant to continuing that bequest this summer."

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