Even though there are still eight days left in the Esports World Cup schedule, Team Falcons has earned so many Club Championship points that no other organisation can knock them off the top spot. To that end, the Esports World Cup Foundation has announced that ‘no matter what happens now’, Team Falcons has won the $7 million grand prize in the Club Championship.
Presently, the organisation sits on a whopping 4160 CC points, with Team Liquid sitting in second place with 1760. It’s such an immense gulf that fans knew what was going to happen from a very early stage, but not everyone is happy for Team Falcons’ victory.
The Host With The Most
Team Falcons is playing on home turf, given that the organisation hails from Saudi Arabia. The team’s chairman, Mossad Aldossary, was just competing in the EA FC portion of the EWC but failed to qualify for the playoffs. From the outset, Team Falcons busied itself with assembling a roster in more games than any other organisation, which gave it a serious advantage right off the bat.
As we approach the final week of the tournament, the organisation has won the Call of Duty Warzone and Free Fire tournaments and wound up placing high in the Apex Legends and ML:BB events. It also scraped points in Dota 2, ML:BB Women, Overwatch 2, and Fortnite.
Now, the Esports World Cup Foundation has confirmed that no matter what, Team Falcons is the unequivocal winner of the EWC:
Many fans have taken to social media to claim that Team Falcons ‘bought the win’, signing some of the best players in their respective games and fielding an overwhelming number of rosters that few organisations could compete against.
This means that Team Falcons will lift the first Club Championship trophy and walk away with a massive $7 million prize, on top of what it earned in the various games it competed in.
Speaking on stream, Chairman Mossad Aldossary said:
I want to thank everyone – all of our fans, all our supporters, all of our employees, everyone that worked hard. Now, finally, we can say it’s home – it’s home, it’s home, it’s home.
He did stress that he and his organisation did it for the ‘Saudi people’, and that the trophy ‘won’t leave the country’. Some might call it patriotic, but others are suggesting it was nothing short of predictable.
What’s incredible is that there are still so many games yet to wrap up at the event:
- Modern Warfare 3
- EA FC
- Tekken 8
- PUBG
- Rocket League
- ESL R1
Are you surprised that Team Falcons won the Club Championship? Let us know.
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