Esports World Cup 2024 is an aggregated Esports event with the prize value of US $ 60 million, the highest in history when than the Gamers8 tournament in 2023 to 15 million USD. The event will include a lot of eSports content from League of Legends, truth arena, dota 2 or CS2. In addition, eSports organizations will be confronted at this event with a total prize of up to $ 20 million.
The qualifiers of the subjects appearing in the tournament also began, typically CS2. However, League of Legends will probably not have a qualifying round that the Organizing Committee will directly invite the teams from the current tournaments organized by Riot Games. However, many rumors are appearing that the LPL area has not received an invitation to attend the tournament.
The Korean Esports newspaper has approached many sources and received the answer: “As far as I know, the areas participating in the World Cup of Electronic Sports have been confirmed as LCK, LCS, LEC and CBLOL, and LPL have not yet received an invitation.” Currently, it is unclear why the LPL area has not received an invitation from the organizers and whether this has changed in the future.
So far, there has been no information about the format as well as the number of teams participating in the content of League of Legends. Due to the middle of the summer tournament, the possibility of the Esports World Cup organizers must approach and be approved by Riot Games to add League of Legends to the competition list. According to rumors from Travis Gafford, LCS will postpone the tournament for teams to attend the Esports World Cup. In addition to League of Legends, Valorant is likely not to attend the tournament due to the same time as the Valorant Champions.
