The Kespa Cup 2024 tournament takes place from November 30 to December 8, which is the tournament organized by the Korean Electronic Sports Association (Kespa). This is also the first time the tournament has been held since 2021. Normally, the tournament will be held for the Challengers teams, the youth teams in the LCK area.
However, this year, the tournament will bring many major changes. This time, there will be 12 teams attending with 10 LCK teams and two guest teams including Taipei China and Vietnam. In particular, the tournament also officially draws to select the groups for this year's tournament, including:
Group A:
– Fearx
– Taipei China
– Drx
– KT Rolster
– Kwangdong Freecs
– Brion
Table B:
– The other dplus
– Geng
– Hanwha Life Esports
– NS Redforce
– T1
– Vietnam
In particular, Vietnam predicts that it will be very difficult to confront all 4 teams that have just attended the World Championship 2024, Dplus, Geng, Hanwha Life Esports and especially the defending world champion T1.
In terms of formula, in the group stage, the teams will take turns in turn, taking each round of 4 teams to enter the main event round. Here, 8 teams will be divided into matches, continue to play in Swiss format until they find 4 teams into the knockout round.
Finally, 4 teams will play live to find the champion. The semi -finals will deliver the results with the BO3, the Bo5 final and all the remaining matches will play the Bo1. The tournament champion will receive 40 million won (Korean currency unit), while the runner-up receives 20 million won, two 3-4 teams receive 10 million won bonuses.
