- Tencent and Garena will hold the Arena of Valor World Cup 2021 in an online format
- This year’s event will be coming along with a $500,000 prize purse and run from June through July
- The hosts will look for new ways to engage the audiences and offer enhance viewership experience
Arena of Valor is bringing the World Cup in 2021 with $500,000 on the line and $200,000 going to the first-place finisher.
AWC Returns in Online Setting
Mobile gaming continues to be a dominant force across multiple esports franchises and not least in Arena of Valor, the fantasy mobile game that has been able to gather momentum through six-figure prize purses for its crowning event – The Arena of Valor World Cup (AWC).
This year’s event will be held online from June 19 through July 18. The event will spawn for over a month and feature many opportunities for willing participants to take their chances at the $500,000 tournament, which promises to be jam-packed.
A total of 16 teams will be invited from several regions in Asia and South America, with China Taipei, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, Mainland China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Brazil all joining the fray.
Tournament Schedule and Format
The event’s group stages will run from June 19 through June 27 with the eight best teams making it to a quarter-final spanning the period between June 30 and July 4. Then, semi-finals will follow and be held on July 10 and July 11. The last two teams to face each other will do so on July 18 and the winner will bag $200,000 while the second-place finisher will take home $110,000.
The events will be hosted by Tencent and Garena, which have promised to come together and make improvements to the viewing experience this season so that spectators feel closer to the competition even though no live audiences will be allowed and the event will be held online instead.
AWC 2021 is expected to command a good amount of interest, building upon the last event’s numbers in 2019, which saw some 74.5 million total views with the event peaking at 855,000 concurrent viewers, not too bad for a mobile esports title that is more or less stretching its legs.
