2024 is almost halfway done, but there’s still a lot of excitement left for almost every esports game. These are some of the most important tournaments currently on trend or will be trending soon in the following days.
E-Sports World Cup 2024
Announced last year by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the E-Sports World Cup 2024 aims to become the biggest gaming event of the year. It will unite 18 different e-sports for eight weeks of tournaments.
The event was created as a successor to the former Gamers8, a festival previously focused on e-sports but now giving a more major focus to the competitive aspect. The prize pool is $60 million USD, divided between all the different competitions.
Each competition will award points to the club that reaches the first eight places. The club with the most points at the end of the event will win the Club Championship and earn a massive cash prize of $7,000,000 USD, in addition to the prizes earned in each tournament.
These are the confirmed e-sports that will appear in the cup, with their respective dates:
- 1st Week: Mobile Legends – Mid-Season Cup 2024, League of Legends.
- 2nd Week: Mobile Legends – Woman’s Invitational, Dota 2, Free Fire.
- 3rd Week: Counter Strike 2, PUBG Mobile.
- 4th Week: Overwatch 2.
- 5th Week: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Honor of Kings, Apex Legends.
- 6th Week: Street Fighter 6, Fortnite, Teamfight Tactics.
- 7th Week: EA Sports FC24, Starcraft II.
- 8th Week: Tekken 8, PUBG Battlegrounds, Rocket League.
In addition to the main events, the World Cup will also host the 2024 ESL SC2 Pro Tour Championship on August 21, marking the end of the current EPT season of Starcraft II.
The event will take place in Boulevard City, Riyadh, from July 3 to August 25, so fans better stay tuned if they want to watch the fierce battles of the best e-sport clubs of all time.
Evolution Championship Series
Although the E-Sport World Cup is great, it lacks fighting games, with just SF6 and Tekken 8. Fortunately, there’s another event that specializes in these types of games. That’s right, it’s time for EVO once again.
The Evolution Championship Series, or EVO for short, is one of the biggest fighting game events, reuniting the most popular titles of the genre and most skilled players in one place.
As expected, this edition of EVO will feature SF6, Tekken 8, and Mortal Kombat 1. But that’s not all, as Guilty Gear Strive, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Under Night In-Birth Ii Sys:Celes, and The King Of Fighters XV will also join the tournaments.
Also, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the legendary Evo Moment #37 or Daigo Parry, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike will reappear in the EVO tournaments of this year. So new and old fans will be able to relive the excitement of the 2000s.
EVO 2024 will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall from July 19 to 21. In addition to the tournaments, visitors can get illustrations at Artist Alley, participate in cosplay contests, or play their favorite fighting games in different stands.
2024 Call of Duty League Championship
Call of Duty Modern Warfare III has been pretty wild since its launch last year. The game was met with mixed reviews, a price tag that still doesn’t convince everyone, and weird collaborations like Godzilla or Gundam and skins getting disabled for being too overpowered.
However, all those issues haven’t stopped the game from going strong, and there’s no better proof of that than the Call of Duty League Championship, or Champs, as it’s commonly called.
The tournament reunites the best 16 Call of Duty teams (10 with the highest number of Challenger Points and six through the last chance qualifiers) to determine who will be the season’s world champion and earn great prizes.
The event will be held from July 18 to 21 in Las Vegas, so fans better start saving for the trip and keep a watch on the strongest competitors of the season so they can bet for the future champion of the season.
EMEA Masters 2024 – Summer Split
League of Legends is a game that needs no presentation. Thanks to its vast lore and gameplay, this legendary MOBA attracts thousands of new players yearly. This year is no exception, with the 14.7 patch hitting just a few weeks ago.
Since the World Final is still some months away, many have turned their attention to other tournaments like the EMEA Masters 2024 – Summer Split that will be held from July 31 to August 30.
The tournament will reunite over 60 teams, and they will need to win through best-out-of-five matches in a Swiss-round format that will surely make more than one team sweat.
BLAST Premier: Fall Groups
Few people were happy with Valve’s decision to transform CS: GO into Counter-Strike 2 and with good reason. The surprising update in 2023 vastly upgraded the graphics and UI. However, it raised the requirements and added bugs and crashes.
But enough time and patches have passed, and people have learned to love the new Counter-Strike, just in time for tournaments like the Blast Premier Fall Groups 2024.
Organized by the Danish company BLAST, this tournament will reunite 16 teams from Europe and North America in best-of-three matches to decide which one will be the lucky one to win the $22,500 USD prize and qualify for the Fall Finals in September.
The winners of Blast Fall will join the Spring teams in the November World Finals, so Counter-Strike 2 fans better not miss a single match of the group phase.
But Wait, There’s More in the Summer!
These are some of the events that are trending right now, but of course, there will be more during the summer, like Valorant Champions in Korea, which will reunite the winning teams of the Champion Tours to decide once and for all who will be the VCT World Champion of 2024.
If that wasn’t enough, the Pokémon World Championship in Hawaii will reunite the ultimate trainers of Scarlet and Violet, GO, and Unite, so players better stay tuned to receive the latest updates about these and other events.