Esports World Cup 2024: Schedule, Format, Games and More

As part of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 plan, the Esports World Cup (EWC) will be commencing shortly, launching its inaugural year within the esports ecosystem.

Including a total of 21 reported promiment esports titles - ranging from FPS to MOBAs, from racing simulators to fighting games, auto chess, and battle arenas - the Esports World Cup truly plans to be all-inclusive in its delivered experience.

Taking place in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, the Esports World Cup has been intended to be an 8-week long venture with a combined prize pool totalling a staggering $60m USD.

21 esports titles will contend across 22 tournaments within this immense carnival of esports, and as an additional reward for the competing organizations, the EWC will also include a Club Championship.

The EWC also comes as the successor of Gamers8, replacing it as the premier esports event in Saudi Arabia. The EWC will run from the 3rd of July to the 25th of August.

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Esports World Cup totals $60m in Prize Pool

Initial reports from the upcoming Esports World Cup tournament indicate that it will include a prize pool of $60m USD. The prize pool has also been reported to be separated accordingly:

• Club Championship - $20m USD
• Game Championships - $30m USD+
• Qualifiers - $7.6m USD
• MVP Awards - $1.1m USD

“When we started working on the Esports World Cup and announced it last fall, we promised to bring the community all the best games. This final batch of titles concludes this promise. We are incredibly excited and thankful to all the publishers and game developers for making this dream lineup a reality.”

- Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports World Cup. Foundation.

Esports World Cup: All Games

• Counter-Strike 2
• League of Legends
• Dota 2
• Apex Legends
• EA FC 24
• Fortnite
• Free Fire
• Honor of Kings
• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Overwatch 2
• PUBG
• PUBG Mobile
• Rainbow Six Siege
• Rocket League
• StarCraft 2
• Street Fighter 6
• Tekken 8
• Teamfight Tactics
• RENNSPORT
• Call of Duty

Team in Attendance

Counter-Strike 2

League of Legends

Dota 2

Apex Legends

EA FC 24

Fortnite

Free Fire

Honor of Kings

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Overwatch 2

PUBG

PUBG Mobile

Rainbow Six Siege

[TBA]

Rocket League

[TBA]

StarCraft 2

Street Fighter 6

Tekken 8

Teamfight Tactics

RENNSPORT

Call of Duty

Esports World Cup: Club Championship

A unique attraction of the EWC, the Club Championship seeks to reward the top 16 performing organizations based on overall performance across multiple esports titles.

As listed above, the total prize pool for the Club Championship has been set for $20m USD. The stipulation for this specific competition is for an organization to perform the "best" across the 8-week long tournament - earning the title of Club Champion as a result as well.

Basing off earlier reports, the Club Championship appears to be an extension of the EWC Foundation's effort in encouraging esports organizations towards greater growth - by incentivizing to form teams across multiple disciplines.

A large expansion of this effort can be found in our initial report and consideration of the EWC Club Programme. In short, the Club Programme is reportedly seeking to provide funding/has provided funding opportunities to 30 esports organizations.

Reputable and recognized esports organizations such as G2 Esports, T1, Cloud9 and Virtus.pro are all listed members of the program.

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Esports World Cup: Full Schedule

As mentioned above, the Esports World Cup will run from the 3rd of July to the 25th of August. As such, the full schedule for the 8-week long celebration of all things esports has been listed and can be found below.

“Uniting and showcasing the power of esports and the esports community has become a reality. Billions of players worldwide play these games, and we can’t wait to bring all those vibrant fan communities together in Riyadh this summer.”

- Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports World Cup

Esports World Cup: Formats

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League of Legends - TBD

Counter-Strike 2 - TBD

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The Esports World Cup largely operates as its own entity outside of most esports titles' established circuits/ecosystems. However, 4 of the esports competitions provide an impact towards later tournaments within its specific ecosystem.

Honor of Kings

• Top 2 earn qualification to Honor of Kings Invitational Championship.

Free Fire

• Champion earns qualification to Free Fire World Series Global Finals.

PUBG

• Earn circuit points towards determing participating teams at PUBG Global Championship.

PUBG Mobile

• Champion earns extra qualifying slot to PUBG Mobile Global Championship.

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This article may be updated if more information becomes available. First published: 17/6/24

Credit: Esports World Cup Federation