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The schedule of the Petroleum Cup has been announced
The 2024 Esports World Cup will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from July 3 to August 25. The total prize pool is more than 60 million US dollars, there are 19 competitions, and 45 participating clubs are confirmed. The prize distribution is as follows
$20 million: The top 16 teams in the club's total points will be divided
$33 million: total prize money for esports
$1.1 million: $50,000 for individual esports MVPs
$7.6 million: Total prize money for qualifying for the qualifiers
The biggest attraction of this year is that Riot, which has previously refused to allow a third party to host the independent world championship, allows League of Legends to participate in this esports World Cup. Among the invited teams are the two top clubs of the LCK, GenG and T1, while the LPL side is not the strongest club of the season, which is confirmed to be NIP, WBG and LGD.
LPL and LCK to make way for the Esports World Cup?
From the beginning of July to the end of August, although League of Legends does not take so long as a single project, it will only take up a few days during this period. However, since this is at the end of the summer season, it is a key stage at the end of the regular season, or an important time node in the playoffs, or a bubble game, so the five teams may need the green light from the China and South Korea regions to arrange the schedule reasonably to make way.
Although there are close to 20 teams from other LOL regions involved in all participating clubs, not all clubs are eligible to participate in the League of Legends program. And it is rumored that the prize money for a single LOL project in the E-sports World Cup is only 1 million, plus LPL is not the strongest team to play, Europe and the United States may not participate, South Korea directly sent the big and small kings, so in the eyes of many people, this so-called "E-sports World Cup", at least in the LOL project, the gold content is very low. It can basically be seen as the bag of the Korean LCK team.
GenG vs. T1 showdown
The three teams, WBG, NIP and LGD, have a low win rate against GenG and T1 based on their performance in the Spring Tournament. If the two South Korean teams are drawn well enough to eliminate each other before the final, they will most likely meet in the final. Since the LCK is not full every week, it is not difficult to make way for the schedule of 2 teams, and the LPL will change the competition system, and the participation of 3 teams may affect the summer tournament to some extent.
However, at present, except for T1, other clubs have not officially announced that a team will participate in this Saudi Arabia-hosted esports World Cup. Although the total prize money is very high, for those clubs that have little hope of winning the championship in other sports, or even have no divisions, it may be a bit more than worth the loss to win the League of Legends summer tournament just because there is a high probability that they will not win the championship. And if there are few participating teams and T1 and GenG, this kind of strong and weak event also makes many LOL e-sports viewers not very interested.
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