After the spring tournaments in various major regions around the world have come to an end, the next most important thing for the League of Legends community is undoubtedly the 2024 MSI Mid-Season Tournament to be held in Chengdu in May, and in the middle of this year, the 2024 Saudi World Cup, which may be the most expensive event in the history of esports, will also kick off.
The League of Legends project has also been confirmed before and will become the competition project of this year's Saudi World Cup, and about the Saudi Cup, here is some information and knowledge to share with you.
- The official 17th of the Saudi E-sports World Cup officially announced the prize money of the competition, and the prize pool will exceed 60 million US dollars (about 430 million yuan)
- This year's tournament prize pool is the largest in the history of esports events, breaking the record of $45 million set by Gamers8 in 2023.
- The 2024 Saudi Cup will be played over an 8-week period and will cover 19 games (including League of Legends and Genting Game)
- Unlike some other tournament prize money distribution methods, the Saudi World Cup is a club-by-club tournament model, where $20 million of the prize money is distributed to the top 16 clubs based on overall performance, which means that the more events a club plays, the better the results, and the higher the prize money.
- The best performing club will be crowned the "first Esports World Cup Club Champion"
- The remaining prize money will be divided into three additional distribution categories: Game Tournament Bonus (3300w), MVP Bonus and Qualifier Bonus (700w)
- Each of the 20 gaming tournaments has its own prize pool, totaling over $33 million, and the top performers in each tournament will receive $50,000 in MVP prizes.
- 22 of the participating teams were directly invited by the organizers, and then 6 more clubs were selected to supplement the open registration, but it is said that there are no domestic clubs, of which only 2 clubs have completed the bidding to obtain provisional places, and one team is because of the light of the European division
- The direct invitation club will be directly linked to the club prize money ($20 million), and earn points by winning various games and share the prize pool according to the ranking.
- In terms of the League of Legends project, at present, Riot is to let each region select itself, which team will participate in the LPL, and there is no final plan at present.
Through some of the above information, it is not difficult for us to find that many domestic clubs are only doing well in localization, but if they want to make a name for themselves and let more overseas markets pay attention to and pay attention to them, there is no club that has done relatively well, which can also reflect that the vast majority of domestic clubs do not have overseas strategic vision and plans.
In addition, the player's perception of the market is almost 0, at present, professional players are regarded as fast-moving consumer goods by the club in most cases, either out of the results, or eliminated, many players only care about the momentary gains and losses in front of them, overall, [going out] This road is still very long.