{"id":2551,"date":"2024-09-02T14:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/thunderpick-wc-2025-revealed-its-schedule"},"modified":"2024-09-02T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:05:28","slug":"thunderpick-wc-2025-revealed-its-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/thunderpick-wc-2025-revealed-its-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderpick WC 2025 Revealed Its Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GRID <\/strong>has officially announced the exciting return of the <strong>Thunderpick World Championship <\/strong>for the third consecutive year. The championship series debuted in 2023, with <strong>FaZe <\/strong>emerging victorious to claim the inaugural title and a grand prize of <strong>$250,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the <strong>Championship <\/strong>is set to offer an impressive total prize pool of <strong>$1,000,000<\/strong>, continuing its tradition from the previous year. The tournament will comprise six online Series events hosted across <strong>Europe<\/strong>, <strong>North America<\/strong>, and <strong>South America<\/strong>, serving as the gateway for teams to qualify for the newly introduced <strong>Closed Qualifier<\/strong>. The <strong>ClosedQualifier <\/strong>will effectively determine which teams will advance to the prestigious eight-team <strong>Finals<\/strong>, raising the stakes for all participants.<\/p>\n<p>In each regional series, <strong>16 teams<\/strong> will compete for a chance to advance to the closed qualifier. Ten invited teams will join the six teams that qualify in the closed qualifier. From there, the closed qualifier will select four teams to move on to the <strong>Finals<\/strong>, which will be heldin an online setting. Additionally, four more teams will receive direct invitations to the <strong>Finals <\/strong>based on <strong>Valve rankings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>During each qualifier event, there will be a total of <strong>$25,000<\/strong> up for grabs in prizes.Once the competitors make it to the <strong>Finals<\/strong>, they will be competing for a total of<strong> $850,000 <\/strong>in prizes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_44tKOV3EvA2Ivv21VkJmnQ==\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ea6ea1127c974dac.jpeg\"> <span><\/span><\/div>\n<h2>Schedule<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Europe Series 1 &#8211; <\/strong>April 30 to May 5<\/li>\n<li><strong>North America Series 1<\/strong> &#8211; May 11 to May 16<\/li>\n<li><strong>South America Series 1<\/strong> &#8211; July 2 to July 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>South America Series 2<\/strong> &#8211; July 15 to July 20<\/li>\n<li><strong>North America Series 2<\/strong> &#8211; July 23 to July 28<\/li>\n<li><strong>Europe Series 2<\/strong> &#8211; August 12 to August 17<\/li>\n<li><strong>Closed Qualifier<\/strong> &#8211; September 9 to September 11<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finals<\/strong> &#8211; October 15 to October 19<\/li>\n<li><\/ul>\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>GRID has officially announced the exciting return of the Thunderpick World Championship for the third consecutive year. The championship series debuted in 2023, with FaZe emerging victorious to claim the inaugural title and a grand prize of $250,000. In 2025, the Championship is set to offer an impressive total prize pool of $1,000,000, continuing its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-2551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","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=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}