As previously reported, the tournament is considered the “most terrible” history of the Electronic Sports Village – Esports World Cup 2024 has officially revealed. The initial bonus of this tournament is 60 million USD (about 1524 billion VND) – a very “terrible” figure in eSports history. Not stopping there, this tournament is also unimaginably large when there are 20 competitions in many different games from FPS, MOBA (including League of Legends) to antagonism.
In terms of total prizes or the number of subjects, Esports World Cup can be considered a “terrible” tournament in the top of electronic sports history
And at dawn on April 19, the bonus structure of 20 subjects at Esports World Cup was officially announced. However, this has caused huge indignation for the League of Legends community. Even the press in the LPL area also called on the teams of this area and the T1 did not accept the invitation to attend the Esports World Cup to protest.
Accordingly, the total bonus of League of Legends at Esports World Cup is only 1 million USD. This is a much smaller figure than even mobile games like PUBG Mobile ($ 3 million) or Mobile Legends Bang Bang ($ 3 million). Even if compared to another MOBA series, Dota 2, the bonus of League of Legends is much smaller. Specifically, the bonus for the playoffs and the selection period of DotA 2 up to 10 million USD (5 million USD per stage). It is clear that such a big difference shows that BTC Esports World Cup does not value League of Legends compared to other games.
The prize structure of 20 subjects at Esports World Cup was announced and League of Legends only had a bonus of 1 million USD, smaller than many other games.
It should be known that the Esports World Cup is held in Arabic, a place with extremely harsh climate. Moreover, the organization time of Esports World Cup is expected to be in early July and coincides with the group stage of summer tournaments at LPL or LCK. Participating in this tournament (if any) will be able to negatively affect the players, especially in terms of health.
T1 is said to be the first team to be new to this tournament but it is likely that they will refuse
Moreover, Esports World Cup is not in the official tournament system of Riot Games. The fact that a team won this tournament did not gain any advantages at Worlds (the most important tournament of the year of League of Legends). So if there is no outstanding high bonus, the top teams at LPL and LCK have no reason to attend this tournament.
Sohu posted an indignation for the World Cup Esports: “Faker and LPL teams do not attend, the bonus of the League of Legends is announced with only $ 1 million, not equal to all mobile games”
“After the information about the bonus, I saw a lot of wrathful audiences. Faker and LPL teams did not need to go there to do there” – a gamer commented
“12 teams fighting with each other with a total prize of $ 1 million and not receiving anything more. Even when the championship, the bonus received is not too much. It is best that the top teams should not attend” – another sarcastic gamer commented
Perhaps because of this issue, some information said that the leading League of Legends teams such as T1, Gen.G, BLG … are still considering but have not decided to attend the Esports World Cup. If the prize structure of this tournament remains the same, it is understandable that the above -mentioned teams refuse to attend.