Esports World Cup to characteristic record-breaking prize pool

It has been revealed that the prize pool for the 2025 Esports World Cup (EWC) will probably be a record-breaking $70m (£54.8m).

Scheduled to happen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the EWC will usher in elite gamers and groups from throughout the globe.

The prize cash will probably be cut up throughout a complete of 25 totally different competitions that happen between July and August 2025, in addition to the Membership Championship.

The Membership Championship rewards organisations, together with these in its accomplice programme, for constantly performing throughout totally different EWC occasions.

It’s claimed that the prize pool helps make the EWC one of many ‘most prestigious sporting occasions’ on this planet.

This 12 months’s occasion marks a $10m (£7.7m)enhance from the prize pool distributed in 2024.

Ralf Reichert, CEO of the EWC mentioned the prize pool was a ‘privilege to announce’ and is ‘validation of our goal to raise the trade’.

He added: “Whereas greater than $70m is an unimaginable, life-changing sum, it’s all the time aligned with a long-term imaginative and prescient somewhat than short-term influence. It’s not simply to have more cash at stake, however to create alternatives for everybody at each degree of the ecosystem, and strengthen the trade for generations to return.”

The Esports World Cup has attracted criticism  on account of its involvement of the Saudi Arabian Public Funding Fund.

How will the prize pool be distributed?

It’s mentioned that $27m of the entire prize pool will probably be up for grabs within the Membership Championship on the Esports World Cup.

Then $38m will probably be cut up throughout sport championships and $450,000 for MVP awards.

Lastly, simply over $5m will probably be on provide to EWC qualifiers.

Who gained the inaugural Esports World Cup?

The inaugural Esports World Cup ran from July 3 to August 25, 2024.

It was gained by Saudi Arabian organisation Workforce Falcons – who scored ten top-three finishes together with victories in Name of Responsibility: Warzone and Free Fireplace.