Another champion has been crowned at the Esports World Cup in Riyadh, with Alliance winning the Apex Legends category and securing the $600,000 grand prize. In an intense showdown that lasted more than seven hours, the teams competing in the Apex Legends tournament made history, playing a whopping thirteen games before the victor lifted the trophy.
Going the Distance
The reason why the final stage in the Apex Legends tournament took seven hours sits with the competition’s structure. It’s a similar layout used in other battle royale-based events, and it requires the winning team to secure 60 points and then a win in a final match. It’s the same model that’s used in the World Series of Warzone.
Because of how this model works, teams can keep coming up to ‘match point’ as play progresses, and ultimately, you could have stacks of teams sitting on more than 60 points, all of which need that one final win to secure the trophy. This is what happened at the Esports World Cup, and it took a staggering thirteen matches before Alliance picked up the last win needed to grab the top spot.
By the time the dust had settled, Alliance sat on 112 points – only Team Falcons had more points, but Alliance had the fortune and skills to secure that all-important win first. As the final stage unravelled, underdog teams just kept proving the crowd wrong, pushing the series further beyond what seemed possible, breaking the record for the most matches in a LAN final ever.
Ultimately, it was the EU side of Alliance that secured the win in the thirteenth round, netting the 1,000 Club Championship Points and the lion’s share of the prize pool.
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