After the Spring tournaments of League of Legends ended, all the attention was focusing on MSI 2024 in Chengdu. This tournament brings together the best teams such as Gen.G, T1, BLG, TES … and promises to bring the audience the eye -catching performances. Not stopping there, teams from smaller areas also have a great opportunity to make a mark in this tournament.
MSI 2024 promises to have many interesting matches
And right before the MSI 2024, another notable information appeared and made Esports village stir. Specifically, the Twitter page (now X), named Esports World Cup, posted information about the tournament with the largest total prize in the history of electronic sports village. The initial bonus of this tournament was 60 million USD (about 1524 billion VND). Previously, this record belonged to the Gamers8 tournament with a total prize of up to 45 million USD (about 1100 billion VND)
The Twitter page (now X) of Esports World Cup shared: “We are proud to announce that this year's Esports World Cup will have a total prize of more than US $ 60 million. The tournament will be held in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2024 this year.”
It should be known that the 2024 World Cup Esports is organized by Gamers8 and Savvy Gaming Group, a company that owns the Arab Investment Fund. In 2023, they also organized the Gamers8 tournament mentioned above including subjects such as Dota 2, CS: GO, Rocket League, Fortnite, Street Fighter, Rainbow Six. However, by 2024, they will break their own bonus record when organizing the Esports World Cup tournament and expand to many other subjects (including League of Legends).
Gamers8 tournament held in 2023 had a total prize of up to 45 million USD
There is an interesting point of the prize structure of the Esports World Cup that even the teams eliminated in the selection rounds are awarded. Specifically, the organizers spent up to 7.6 million USD (nearly 200 billion VND) to the teams eliminated in the selection round. This is essential for even teams that do not have much reputation can maintain activities when attending the tournament.
Even the teams eliminated in the selection rounds receive a small bonus from the Esports World Cup
Immediately after the above information was published, there were many predictions about the names invited to attend this terrible tournament. Even according to the press analysis, T1 is the LoL team with the highest invitation rate. The reason is extremely simple when T1 is the reigning team champion Worlds and owns a whole star squad.
The international media said: “With Faker, he will definitely be the main character of this tournament when T1 is very high, the team will be invited directly.”
Not stopping there, the purpose of Savvy Gaming Group is likely to turn Arab into the new “paradise” of Esports village. On the side of T1, this is considered the most famous team in Esports when owning a “contemporary legend” that is Faker. Therefore, the new T1 participating in the Esports World Cup is considered a whole country when it ensures the expertise and increasing the popularity of the tournament.
Faker and his teammates will have a rather busy summer when they will play at MSI 2024, LCK Summer 2024 and possibly Esports World Cup.
There is a pretty interesting fact that this tournament is very likely to have the help from Riot Games itself. Remember in early 2024, journalist Jacob Wolf once revealed that Riot himself sent emails to teams arranging schedules so that there was an empty time at the beginning of July. It is likely that this is the time to organize the Esports World Cup.
Basically, the current tournament system of Riot Games has only 2 international tournaments, MSI and Worlds. This is considered a small number of tournaments compared to other games. Hopefully, the upcoming Esports World Cup will achieve great success and become an annual tournament and help the audience have the opportunity to watch more League of Legends matches.