{"id":18080,"date":"2024-12-07T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=18080"},"modified":"2024-12-07T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:03:18","slug":"esports-world-cup-will-be-back-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/esports-world-cup-will-be-back-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Esports World Cup Will Be Back In August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been revealed that <strong>CS2 <\/strong>will be part of the <strong>2025 Esports World Cup<\/strong>, with the <strong>CS2 <\/strong>competition scheduled to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from <strong>August 20-24<\/strong>. This event, organized in partnership with <strong>ESL<\/strong>, will showcase 16 teams competing for a portion of a <strong>$1,250,000<\/strong> prize pool, with<strong> $500,000<\/strong> allocated for the champion. This is an increase from the <strong>$1,000,000<\/strong> prize pool offered in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Invitations will be determined based on the<strong> Valve Regional Standings (VRS)<\/strong>, with the top 16 teams earning invites. The initial <strong>VRS <\/strong>update in June 2025 will be utilized to establish the invitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Natus Vincere<\/strong> triumphed in the inaugural <strong>Esports World Cup<\/strong>, successfully competing against a highly competitive lineup that included eight of the top 10 teams in the HLTV world rankings, to claim the championship and a prize of <strong>$400,000<\/strong>. Valeriy <strong>&#8216;\u2060b1t\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Vakhovskiy earned his first-ever HLTV<strong> MVP <\/strong>award for his contributions in helping <strong>Natus Vincere <\/strong>achieve the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Esports World Cup<\/strong> is a follow-up to the festival in <strong>Saudi Arabia<\/strong> that was formerly called <strong>Gamers8<\/strong>, which hosted a <strong>Counter-Strike <\/strong>tournament boasting a<strong> $1 million <\/strong>prize pool in August 2023, clinched by <strong>Vitality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EWC Announcement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/EWC_EN\/status\/1865079022994006058\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been revealed that CS2 will be part of the 2025 Esports World Cup, with the CS2 competition scheduled to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from August 20-24. This event, organized in partnership with ESL, will showcase 16 teams competing for a portion of a $1,250,000 prize pool, with $500,000 allocated for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":18081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-18080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-news","10":"tag-cs2-tournaments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18082,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions\/18082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}