"Apex Legends Global Series Championship Prize Pool Reaches $2.58M". "Apex Legends Global Series Championship details revealed".
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"Coronavirus could deal final blow to embattled Apex Legends pro scene". "Coronavirus leads EA to cancel Apex and FIFA events". "Apex Legends Global Series Is An International Tournament With A $3 Million Prize Pool". "Apex Legends Global Series announced, featuring over $3 million total prizes". "ALGS commissioner John Nelson reflects on the past and present of Apex Legends esports". After the conclusion of the Split Two playoffs, the top performing teams from playoffs, along with teams that advance through "Last Chance Qualifier tournaments", advance to the ALGS Championship match. A total of 40 teams from the Pro Leagues then advance to the split playoffs. A total of 40 teams in each region compete in their region's Pro League, with teams coming from online qualifiers and direct invites based on previous performance. Įach split consists of a regional Pro League regular season in each of its five regions: North America, EMEA, APAC South, APAC North, and South America. Each split consists of a regular season, called the Pro League, and playoffs. Format Īs of the 2021–22 season, the ALGS season format consists three phases: Split One, Split Two, and the ALGS Championship. The event had a $2 million prize pool, and it marked the first time that the ALGS held a live-audience event. Unlike the previous season, there was only one championship match, with teams from all regions competing. The ALGS Championship was held at the PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina on July 7–10. With an average minute audience of over 539,000 and 10.3 million total hours watched, the Split Two Playoffs on May 1, 2022, broke viewership records across all of EA's titles. The Split One Playoffs saw a significant increase in viewership, peaking at over 300,000 viewers and averaging 55,000 - nearly the same viewership as the inaugural season ALGS Championship. Viewership for the second season began slow, with an average viewership of less than 10,000 in North America and EMEA, the two most popular regions, throughout the regular season of first split. EA and Respawn shifted the series to a different format and expanded it to allow Xbox and PlayStation players to compete.
2021–22 season įor the second season of ALGS, the total prize pool was increased to $5 million. The ALGS Championship began on June 1, and the five regional champions of the season were Kungarna NA (North America), Paradox Esports (South America), Scarz Europe (EMEA), Fennel Korea (APAC North), and Wolfpack Arctic (APAC South). The prize pool for the ALGS Championship was US$2.58 million, with $1 million initially contributed by EA, while rest came from sales of limited edition in-game skins. The ALGS Championship was divided into five separate championship matches by region - North America (NA), South America (SA), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Asia-Pacific North (APAC North), and Asia-Pacific South (APAC South). On March 31, the season shifted to a completely online format and introduced a tournament structure change that included the introduction of new tournaments. On March 6, the first major was indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first online qualifiers was marred by game crashes disconnecting players from the server, as well as bugs within the game itself. The first event of the season began in January 2020. The series was split up into total of 22 events over four phases, and each phase culminated in Major Events, the series' top-level events the last Major of season, called the Apex Legends Global Series Championship, would determine the winner of the season. In December 2019, Electronic Arts (EA) and Respawn Entertainment announced the first Apex Legends Global Series.