Marvel Rivals’ biggest-ever esports occasion, Ignite, begins later this Could as NetEase Video games has confirmed the primary particulars for the occasion.
The hero shooter’s aggressive scene is quickly rising as former Overwatch professional Félix ‘xQc’ Lengyel hosted a $250k (£190k) match for streamers final week, with British creator Candy Anita a part of the profitable crew.
Now, Marvel Rivals’ esports scene is getting related funding with a prize pool of over $3m (£2.24m) and a high prize of $1m (£750k), making Ignite by far the sport’s most profitable occasion.
Additional particulars have been confirmed for the occasion, together with an summary of the schedule and which groups will probably be competing.
Netease have additionally confirmed that the esports occasion can be open to PC opponents solely.
Who can compete in Marvel Rivals Ignite Stage 1 2025?
Marvel Rivals Ignite can be a world match with occasions held within the Americas, EMEA, China, Asia, and Oceania.
The individuals can be made up of a combination of groups who’re invited and groups that reach open, on-line qualifiers from the entire aforementioned areas.
Invites can be despatched to the “high groups” from the Marvel Rivals Championships – Season 1 and Marvel Rivals Invitationals from every area.
There can be 64 competing groups in complete, with the next 30 invitees for Stage 1:
High 4 groups from Marvel Rivals Championship Season 1 – Americas
High 4 groups from Marvel Rivals Championship Season 1 – EMEA
High 4 groups from Marvel Rivals Championship Season 1 – Asia
High 4 groups from Marvel Rivals Championship Season 1 – China
High 4 groups from Marvel Rivals Invitational – Americas
High 4 groups from Marvel Rivals Invitational – EMEA
High 2 groups from Marvel Rivals Invitational – Asia
High 2 groups from Marvel Rivals Invitational – China
High 2 groups from Marvel Rivals Invitational – Oceania
Some groups received or recorded excessive finishes in each of those occasions for these areas, making it unclear who precisely can be invited.
Nonetheless, it’s protected to imagine that the champions of those occasions will at the least obtain invites. They’re: Sentinels (MRC Americas), Virtus.Professional (MRC & MRI EMEA), Uprise ( MRC Asia), OUG (MRC & MRI China), 100 Thieves (MRI Americas), U4RIA NLE (MRI Asia), and Kanga Esports (MRI Oceania).
The remaining 34 spots in Stage 1 can be up for grabs in on-line, Open Qualifiers with eight spots for the Americas, eight spots for EMEA, six spots for Asia, six spots for China, and 6 spots for Oceania.
Groups could have two alternatives to qualify within the Open Qualifiers on PC, with two splits every providing round half of the obtainable slots.
Marvel Rivals Ignite Open Qualifier registration is open now.
Marvel Rivals Ignite 2025 format and schedule
Marvel Rivals Ignite will get underway with Stage 1, which kicks off on Could fifteenth with the primary Open Qualifiers.
The primary break up for Open Qualifiers will happen between Could fifteenth – Could twenty fifth, and the second break up will happen between Could twenty sixth – June 1st.
Following that, the 34 certified groups will be a part of the 30 invited groups within the Group Phases of Ignite Stage 1.
From the Teams, the underside half can be eradicated whereas the highest 50% of groups will advance to Regional Playoffs, which can happen in July to conclude Stage 1.
Whereas unclear, it seems these on-line qualifiers will then feed into the Mid-Season Finals, which can even happen in July and can function a devoted $500k (£379k) prize pool.
It hasn’t been confirmed whether or not this can be a global occasion or will function separate finals for every area.
Then, Marvel Rivals Ignite Stage 2 will function the identical format as Stage 1, however the high 50% of groups from Stage 1 will robotically qualify for Stage 2. Then, the remaining groups would be the high performers from extra Open Qualifiers and the highest groups from Championship Season 2.
From there, groups will compete within the Stage 2 Group Phases and Playoffs to qualify for the Grand Finals in November, which the trailer confirms can be an occasion that includes groups from every area.
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