From the start of July until late August, the Esports World Cup, a successor to theGamers8event, is debuting this year, and theSaudi Esports Federation, with the help of theESL FACEIT group, is bringing almost every major esports to Saudi Arabia.
Sporting a combined$60 million prize pool, the EWC handily overtakes Gamer8’s $45 million last year.
The majority of tournaments will be streamed live on theEWC Twitch channel. Some specific games have their own dedicated channels, and there are a number of offshoot channels dedicated to covering games as they go.
Dota 2 will be streamed onEWC Dota 2, for instance. But events like Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 will be onEWC White, andEWC Goldwill host the League of Legends tournaments. The main Twitch channel will help you keep up with the action and get to the right place.
Below are the dates for select tournaments at the Esports World Cup. Warzone kicks off proceedings on July 3. There are more games besides these as well, including a handful of mobile games with equally impressive prize pools.
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For a full list of all games and tournament dates, check out theEWC page.
Not only will esports clubs be competing in individual games, but their overall performance across the entire event will be tracked based on how many Club Points they get.
Each game will have Club Points up for grabs for orgs, the higher the placement, the more points orgs receive.
As a general rule of thumb, all games will give out1000 pointsfor 1st place,600 pointsfor 2nd, and350pointsif the game has a 3rd place or275pointsif the game has a consolidated 3rd-4th place.
There will be a $20,000,000 prize pool for this Club Championship which will be distributed to the top 16 teams. The top team will receive $7,000,000.
The Club Championship is open to all teams that are participating in EWC tournaments, regardless of whether or not they are part of theClub Program.
Below you can see how the prize pool will be split:
While the other teams’ placement on the leaderboard is pending, Team Falcons are so far ahead that they’re locked in for the 7 million dollar grand prize at this point.
Jeremy Gan was a Games Writer on Dexerto’s Australia team. He is a journalism graduate and expertly covers CS:GO, Valorant, Overwatch, League of Legends, and Dota 2, as well as trending stories in Twitch and Kick streaming.
