Asian Champions League unveils prize pool, provides video games to line-up

Asian esports occasion organiser Hero Esports has revealed the prize pool of its new multi-title event, the Asian Champions League (ACL).

In accordance with a social media submit on the official ACL web page, the whole prize pool of the competitors can be 15m RMB (~£1.67m). The prize pool break up between sport titles is but to be confirmed.

Moreover, the event organiser has confirmed Crossfire and Delta Drive as collaborating sport titles for the primary version of the ACL. It would be part of the likes of CS2, Road Fighter, League of Legends, Honor of Kings and PUBG.

The ACL can be run by a newly based physique referred to as the Asia Champions League Basis, which may have its personal administration construction. VSPO’s Co-founders Jonny Wang and Xie Fan will turn out to be the Chief Government and President of the ACL, respectively.

Based in 2016, Hero Esports (beforehand generally known as VSPO) is without doubt one of the greatest event operators in Asia. The corporate made headlines in 2023 when it acquired a $265m (~£219m) funding from Savvy Video games Group, a Saudi Arabian funding group launched and owned by the federal government’s Public Funding Fund (PIF).

Headquartered in Shanghai, Hero Esports has labored intently with esports competitions such because the Olympic Esports Week, the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Video games and the Esports World Cup (EWC).

Specifically, the ACL has additionally been introduced as a companion of the EWC with the 2 events discussing how the multi-title esports event may be built-in into international EWC {qualifications} this yr.