Saudi Arabia's "Gamers8" event has evolved into the "Esports World Cup". With dozens of titles and a prize pool of $60 million, this festival is trying to position itself as the event for esports. Here is the complete list of games that will feature in the Esports World Cup, as well the schedule.
Esports is very much still in its adolescence, and as the industry moves from the grassroots to the professional, a few growing pains have become obvious. One of the biggest challenges is that esports is divided between smaller communities of individual games, with many of them not garnering enough fans on their own to be profitable. But what if these communities could be brought together, and broadcasting resources could be shared?
This is the vision of the Esports World Cup. Bring all the disparate esports communities together for a festival of gaming tournaments in a single location — namely Riyadh — and hope to create a kind of cross-pollination, with fans buying tickets for their favorite game, but experimenting with others at the event.
It's certainly an ambitious idea, but they've already secured some great games for the 2024 event, which begins on July 3. Check out all the confirmed games, and the schedule details we know so far, below.
Esports World Cup: Confirmed Games
Here are all the games that will have some kind of tournament at the Esports World Cup:
- Apex Legends
- Counter-Strike 2
- Dota 2
- EA FC 2024
- Fortnite
- Free Fire
- Honor of Kings
- League of Legends
- Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Overwatch 2
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- PUBG Mobile
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Rennsport
- Rocket League
- Starcraft II
- Street Fighter 6
- Teamfight Tactics
- Tekken 8
In addition to this list, there have also been rumors circulating of a CoD event, but Activision haven't said anything official yet.
What games would you most like to see at a future Esports World Cup? Anything big that feels missing to you?
Esports World Cup: Schedule
And here is the week by-week schedule of when you can expect each of those games to be played:
| Week / Date | Games |
| Week 1 / July 3-9 | League of Legends / Mobile Legends: Bang Bang / Dota 2 |
| Week 2 / July 10-16 | Mobile Legends: Bang Bang / Dota 2 / Free Fire |
| Week 3 / July 17-23 | Dota 2 / Counter Strike 2 / PUBG: Mobile |
| Week 4 / July 24-30 | Overwatch 2 / Mobile Legends: Bang Bang / PUBG: Mobile |
| Week 5 / July 31 - August 6 | Rainbow Six Siege / Honor of Kings / Apex Legends |
| Week 6 / August 7-13 | Street Fighter 6 / Fortnite / Teamfight Tactics |
| Week 7 / August 14-20 | FC24 / Starcraft 2 |
| Week 8 / August 21-25 | Rocket League / Tekken 8 / PUBG: Battlegrounds |
What week are you most excited for?
Esports World Cup: Prize Pool
And last, but most certainly not least, let's talk about that whopping $60 million prize pool. So far, we don't know how it will be broken down by each game (we expect it will basically come down to how big each game is and how big the viewership is expected to be). However, we do already know that a million has been set aside just for the MVPs of each tournament.
More exact details will be available for each individual tournament as we get closer to the event. You can watch all of these tournaments via Twitch on the official Esports World Cup channel.
And there you have it, everything we know about the 2024 Esports World Cup so far. Will you be tuning in?
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