The 12 months 4 Apex Legends International Collection championship is going down in Sapporo, Japan, the place the 40 greatest Apex groups on the earth are competing for a share of the $2 million prize pool. Right here’s how one can watch the occasion and sustain with the matches.
Within the 12 months 3 finals, TSM took the glory, however a lot has modified within the panorama of Apex esports since that occasion in September 2023.
Whereas groups and gamers have modified so much, the format of the occasion itself stays just about because it was final time round, with Apex’s distinctive ‘match level’ system in use once more.
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Sustain with all of the motion all through the five-day occasion right here, the place we replace the standings repeatedly.
ALGS Championship stream
The primary stream for the occasion might be broadcast stay on the Apex Legends Twitch and YouTube channels. The Twitch stream is embedded under.
If you wish to earn the obtainable Twitch drops, you’ll after all want to observe the matches on Twitch, and you’ll find the way to hyperlink your accounts to assert the drops right here.
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Format
Group stage: Jan 29 – 30
The 40 groups might be break up into 4 teams of ten. Every group will then play a single 6-game collection towards each different group. Their efficiency within the group stage video games will decide the place they land within the double-elimination bracket, up subsequent.
These are the teams:
Bracket stage: Jan 31 – Feb 1
Within the bracket stage, there might be 3 rounds, every an eight-match collection: The Winner’s bracket, and two Loser’s bracket rounds. The underside 10 groups from the Winner’s bracket will drop right down to Loser’s spherical 2, whereas the underside 10 groups from Loser’s spherical 1 might be eradicated. Backside 10 from Loser’s spherical 2 are additionally then eradicated.
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This manner, 10 groups from the winners bracket, and 10 groups from loser’s bracket spherical 2 will advance to the finals.
Finals: Feb 2
Within the finals, it’s all weapons blazing till groups attain the 50-point threshold. Any workforce that crosses the 50-point mark prompts their ‘match level’ and might win the event by ending first place in a sport (though not in the identical sport that they reached 50 factors).
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Schedule
Because the occasion is held in Japan, the timezone actually received’t be supreme for these watching from the US or Europe, with a lot of the occasion going very late into the small hours of the morning.
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The workforce’s complete kills in every sport are displayed in brackets within the tables.
Group Stage Day 1: January 29
Group A vs Group B (7pm ET / 12am GMT)
Group C vs Group D (11:15pm ET / 4:30 AM GMT)
Group A vs Group D (3:30am ET / 8:30am GMT)
Group Stage Day 2: January 30
Group A vs Group B (7pm ET / 12am GMT)
Group C vs Group D (11:15pm ET / 4:30 AM GMT)
Group A vs Group D (3:30am ET / 8:30am GMT)
Bracket Stage Day 1: January 31
Loser’s Bracket Spherical 1 (10 pm ET / 3am GMT)
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Recreation outcomes
Bracket Stage Day 2: February 1
Winner’s Spherical 1 (9:15pm ET / 2:15am GMT)
Recreation outcomes
Loser’s Spherical 2 (2:45pm ET / 7:45am GMT)
Recreation outcomes
Finals: February 2
Finals (9:45pm ET / 2:45am GMT)
Recreation outcomes