The PUBG Global Championship 2024 or PGC 2024 is the talk of the town for PUBG fans and battle royale enjoyers alike. It’s a gathering of powerhouses from every region, whose motive lies only in winning juicy Chicken Dinners.
The PGC 2024 is set to happen from Dec. 9 to 22. Eventually, one champion will walk away with as the champions. There is a lot at stake with a prize pool of $1.5 million on the lion at the PUBG Global Championship 2024.
The PGC 2024 will happen from Dec. 9 to 22 across a Circuit System and the Grand Finals. If you are confused about what this is, here’s the guide for you:
The Circuit System will feature three circuits, whose schedules are as follows:
Each circuit will happen across three days, with the team’s performance in the previous circuit deciding their seeding. For the first circuit, PGS rankings will be utilized.
The top 4 teams will start each circuit on Day 3. The teams in 5th to 8th place will start on Day 2 while the remaining will start on Day 1. At the end of Days 1 and 2, four teams each will be eliminated.
Day 3 is crucial as the overall standings across all three circuits will decide the 16 teams who will advance to the Grand Finals. Each matchday will have six matches.
While this format is a bit confusing, it ensures constant high-stakes action for fans.
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Finally, the PGC 2024 grand finals will happen from Dec. 20 to 22 as the 16 teams with the best PUBG players compete across 18 matches for the title.
With PUBG Partner Teams getting a priority in the PGS, the 24 teams in the PGC 2024 are as follows:
The PUBG Global Championship series dates back to the year 2019, making this its third anniversary for PUBG Esports fans to celebrate. The former 2019 champ and first runner-up was Gen.G Esports and FaZe Clan respectively.
Check the toggle box below for a full breakdown of last year’s event.
PUBG Global Championship is the final event of the PUBG Esports 2023 season. Thirty-two teams from around the world battle for the title of world champions and a share of a massive prize pool of over $2 million.
Krafton is contributing this much toward the prize pool. However, this can be further increased by the players, however, by purchasing PGC-themed items with 30 percent of the profits going towards the prize pool. Last year, it shot up to $4.4 million. Bangkok was selected as the host city for PGC 2023. The event’s final stages, which start on December 1st with a live audience.
Thirty-two (32) teams have qualified from four different regions (Americas, Asia-Pacific, Asia, and Europe). The champions of the last Regional Qualifiers in each region have directly qualified for the PGC. The remaining teams from each region have been determined based on qualification points they accumulated across different tournaments.
The 32 teams in the PGC 2022 are as follows:
Europe
Asia
The schedule break down over three weeks gives us a week for each stage of the event. Opening days are reserved for the Group Stage, followed by the Bracket Stage and Grand Finals at the start of December.
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We will break down the weekly schedule in our PUBG News section once the event starts.
Pickems are back for PGC 2023, with an outright winner and a Team Faceoff picks enabled once again. When it comes to the outright winner, we propose selecting the team you like the most, since no team is an outright favorite this year. Every player gets a free voucher for their outright pick, so you can select your favorite team for free.
We’ve selected Soniqs this year, but this is more due to fandom, rather than an informed pick. For our Team Faceoff Picks for PGC 2023, you can see our selection below:
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With 32 teams competing across 20 days, the PGC 2022 has a long format to determine the champion of the world. The PGC 2022 has been split into the group stage, winners’ bracket, losers bracket one, losers’ bracket two, grand survival, and the grand final.
Firstly, the 32 teams have been split into two groups of 16 teams each based on their PGC Points in the Group Stage. They will compete across 15 matches in three days (five per day).
The top eight teams from each group will advance to the Winners Bracket while the bottom eight will head to the Losers Bracket 1. The teams will then battle across the Winners Bracket and both Losers Brackets to determine 12 of the 16 teams in the Grand Finals.
The remaining four teams will be decided from the Grand Survival. This will be a one-day four-match showdown between 19 teams (12 from the Losers Bracket two and seven from Losers Bracket one) to decide the Grand Finalists.
Grand Finals will take place from Nov. 17 to 20 and will be open to a live audience at the Dubai Esports Festival. Twenty matches will take place across the four days (five matches per day).
Below is the full schedule for PGC 2022 with dates for each phase of the event:
The PGC 2022 Pick’em Challenge will be open from Oct. 26 to Nov. 18. In this, players can purchase PGC items that will contribute to the prize pool or by voting for their favorite teams to gain points and win exciting rewards.
There is a lot up for grabs for the PGC 2022 with EP rewards given to players who can correctly guess the top four teams of the tournaments. These are as follows:
Alternatively, those Fantasy sports enjoyers can rejoice, as KRAFTON and ThriveFantasy parterened to bring PUBG Fantasy to all DFS players.
Check with our Esports News section, or this page before Weekly Final matches kick off, for betting predictions and pick’ems coming into Week 1.
The PGC 2021 brought the best from four regions to compete in the tournament. Every region will gather to play in Studio Paradise of Incheon, South Korea, except for Chinese teams who shall play online.
The PGC 2021 features an elaborate tournament format, distributed into six stages. The PUBG Global Championship 2021 kicks off with the Rank Decision stage, which serves to determine which sixteen of the thirty-two teams will share in the first Weekly Survival stage. The teams are drawn out in 4 groups and play a single round robin between all groups.
PGC 2021
The Weekly Survival stage is as its name suggests, the stakes do matter for the participants. Here the “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” or WWCD format sets a more serious tone for teams. Teams must win one match from the sixteen matches played across three days to proceed to the Weekly Finals. When a team becomes a winner, he will be exempted from Weekly Survival for other candidates to compete for the remaining slots.
The sixteen teams that will start the first weekly survival have been selected. Sixteen matches will be played starting on the 23rd of November to determine the first batch of teams heading into the first weekly finals. Once the first team claims a chicken dinner, they are automatically promoted to the Weekly Finals, while the #17th team in the rankings joins the next match lobby. The process is repeat until 16 teams have won a Chiken Dinner and the list for weekly finals is complete. Sadly Dignitas was the team with the lowest rank in the Rank Decision matches, and they will miss out on the first Weekly Final.
PUBG PGC 2021
It’s not the end of the road for the bottom sixteen performers as they are delegated to the Bottom 16 Stage, where Points Rule is once again applied. Teams play this stage, accumulating points to be seeded in seventeenth to thirty-first places for the next Weekly Survival.
Teams that made it into Weekly Finals shall play ten matches in a similar Points Rule fashion. However, there is an exception, where the winner of each Weekly Finals advances to the Grand Finals (three teams total).
The top nine teams with the highest total points earned across three weeks of Weekly Finals also advance to the Grand Final.
Whereas the remaining teams will participate in Grand Survival, where teams who win one of the four Grand Survival matches shall fill the rest of the Grand Final spots.
Finally, the sixteen qualified teams will compete in a fifteen-match tournament over three days. The Grand Final standings based on Point Rule will determine the Grand Champion of PGC 2021. The Point Rule format promotes consistency and puts participants outside their comfort zone.
Effectively deterring one-trick ponies from pulling off any flukes at the grand PUBG Global Championship 2021.
The entire PGC 2021 spans across five weeks, so here are the important dates for every stage:
PUBG Global Championship 2021© Calendar
There are several teams considered favorites even amongst the strongest teams at PGC 2021.
First up, Virtus.pro, the iconic Russian bears are the most celebrated team in Europe. Garnering fame and glory as of the PUBG Continental Series 5: Europe champions recently, VP’s achievements date further back to ESL PUBG Masters 2021 Europe Summer and PUBG Continental Series 4: Europe (PCS). Let’s not forget FaZe Clan, who was the reigning champion in Europe till the year 2020. While they have fallen off slightly recently, FaZe Clan fans are eagerly waiting for their resurgence.
Hailing from America is a bigger fish than any other regional favorite, Susquehanna Soniqs. Their biggest achievement was the recent PUBG Global Invitational.S 2021 title, earning them the spot among favorites. Additionally, Oath Gaming, another NA rival, are the proclaimed rookies of the year after finding success throughout the PUBG Continental Series: Americas tournaments. Both teams bring two different styles of play, and seeking to provide Americas is the still the best region in competitive PUBG.
The rest of the league aren’t shabby teams either. After all, we have the 32 best teams in the world in attendance. It’s wise to keep an eye on any potentially strong candidate after the Weekly Survival stage concludes.
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