Krafton has announced the full details for the upcoming PUBG Continental Series 4. The series will consist of four regional tournaments: the Americas, Europe, Asia, and APAC. Each region has the same rough format, although the exact details differ.
PUBG Corp. is still opting out to use the adjusted Chicken Dinner Format, that received widespread criticism following PGI.S. The company even posted a special “explanation”, that got criticized even further. Tiebreakers and event winners will be decided by the team that wins the most chickens and player performance and kills only matter to resolve tiebreakers.
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PCS 4 Americas united
Last year North America as Latin America was running their own series. This year, however, after testing the waters at the ESL PUBG Spring Masters, the organizers decided its a good idea to unify the two regions. The new system will naturally put one of the two regions at a disadvantage mostly due to server locations.
In the open first round up to 80 North American teams and 128 Latin American teams will play in a best of twelve over two days, with the top 32 teams in each continent – as scored by the point rule -advancing to the second round. The second and third rounds follow the same format with a point rule, best of 12 over two days, with the top 16 advancing to round 3, then the top 8 advancing to the sub-regional group stage.
Curious to know people’s thoughts on the LATAM + NA merge because to me it feels not competitive if the average player ping over LATAM + NA + OCE + EU is ~120. More than half the lobby is practically playing a game of peekaboo especially when they’re against each other.
— TGLTN (@tgltnPUBG) April 24, 2021
In the group stages, there are 24 teams consisting of the 8 open qualifiers and 16 invited teams. these group stages are a lot longer, consisting of a best of 30 over a period of 6 days using the point rule. At the end of the group stage, the top 6 from each region advance to the grand finals, while the next 8 teams advance to the last chance qualifier. The last chance qualifier reverts to the best of 12 over two days with the point rule. It is, however, the first chance to see the Latin American teams take on the North American ones, as the qualifiers from both sub-regions are placed in a single bracket to compete for their share of the $20k prize pool. Only the top four teams will advance to the grand finals.
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