The biggest ever Warzone prize pool is the punchline of the upcoming CoD: World Series of Warzone. The event features the largest prize sums ever named in a Warzone tournament, and naturally it features a fully original format.
While it is the biggest competition of this type ever hosted by Activision-Blizzard, its not the highest paying Battle Royale yet, with Fortnite and PUBG taking the glory in prize pools. However, the format and way points are counted, and the future potential of Warzone esports is something to be optimistic about.
World Series of Warzone Event Format
Heralding a new phase in the Call of Duty esports tournament era, Blizzard just announced the World Series of Warzone or WSOW. It’ll be part competition, part showcase for the top talent around the world . The series is however limited to entries from North America and Europe. The rest of the world will have to wait for future iterations of the event to potentially be included.
Split into four online competitions, participants will have a chance to win their share of the total $1.2 million prize pool that the overall series is slated for.
The very first of these four competitions is a trio one held in the NA region on June 23rd. It will then be followed by three more duos and trios events later in the year. As for the event format, it will be draft-based with select Team Captains selecting players to build squads of two or three players.
Each squad will earn points for kills and their placement. They also contribute points for greater teams of ten squads each, led by a captain. Five of these captains will be drafting their 10 respective trio squads. In the case of duos events, it will be 15 duos teams per captain. The captains will be invited to the game, and their identities are to be announced later. Activision-Blizzard has teased some of the best the Warzone world has to offer though.
In order to qualify as a regular player, fans will need to go through one of several open qualifiers or specific community tournaments hosted by either the CoD League team, or a few WSOW partners. There will be an official list of these soon.
The other two options to get in involve either an invite from Activision themselves, or one from the 12 official CoD teams. Each of them will get the chance to invite an entire squad of their choice. Oh, and to keep things fair, trios will have a maximum of two CoD pros playing on them to avoid entire pro squads ruining the game for non-pro players.
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