With a prize pool exceeding $60 million, the Esports World Cup is the most valuable event in esports history. It’s a monumental event that’s poised to unfold in Saudi Arabia over eight weeks, with more than a dozen games being represented. Recently, it was announced that Apex Legends would have a slice of that pie, with a massive tournament featuring the world’s best Apex Legends players unfolding at the EWC with a $2 million prize on the line. Here’s everything you need to know about Apex Legends at the Esports World Cup.
This high-stakes event has an intense qualification path and a schedule that’ll last just four days. No team will leave empty-handed, and those that top the table by the end of the event will walk away with a life-changing sum of money. Apex Legends is one of the best competitive titles out there and one of the most popular battle royale games on the planet. Be sure to read on and learn everything you need to know about this super-sized tournament.
At the time of publishing, the qualification path for the Apex Legends ECW tournament hasn’t opened up. There are five channels for qualification into this lucrative tournament, giving teams worldwide the opportunity to appear on what’ll become the most valuable stage in the history of esports. Here’s the breakdown of regional categories – we’ll update this as teams are confirmed and locked in:
Once the qualifying stages have been completed, the confirmed teams will sit back and wait for the Apex Legends schedule to unfold in Saudi Arabia. Presently, all we know about the schedule is that this tournament will play out between July 31 and August 4. Once the full schedule has been published, we’ll be sure to update this article with the dates and times.
There’s a fair spread of teams that’ll make their way into the Apex Legends ecosystem at the Esports World Cup. It was recently confirmed that thirty-two top-tier teams will either be invited to compete at the Esports World Cup, or they’ll have qualified through ‘offline events’ outside of the online qualifying stage. There are eight teams each from NA, EMEA, APAC North, and APAC South.
The online qualifiers will eventually see eight more teams make their way into the tournament. That’ll include two teams each from North America, APAC North, and LATAM, and one team each from APAC South and EMEA.
There’s a fairly unique format for the Apex Legends tournament at the Esports World Cup. It begins with a Group Stage, during which two groups of twenty teams will face off, with the top nine teams from each group making it through to the Finals. The 10th – 19th-ranked teams will fight through an LCQ and the top two teams from that will also make it to the Finals. That means that out of forty teams, only twenty will make it through to the Finals.
Streaming details and channels haven’t been confirmed yet for the Esports World Cup. There are still several weeks (at the time of writing) until the tournament goes live, so keep checking back for the latest information.
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