New Series Marks the Company’s Largest Online Prize Pool to Date
Leading online video gaming platform, WorldGaming, launched a new $10,000 tournament series. The new tournament series has the company’s largest online prize pool to date, with the first place winners for both PS4 and Xbox One walking away with $3,000 each.
The tournament series is set to begin with one of the most popular football video game titles, allowing fans to compete in online brackets and leaderboards through WorldGaming.com and directly via their consoles. Gameplay for this tournament has already begun and continues until September 23, 2016.
The top 25 competitors, with the most wins during preliminary stages, as well as the top 4 qualifiers from each elimination bracket, will be selected to compete in the finals on September 26, 2016. The tournament is open to players using both PS4 and Xbox One consoles.
Those interested in competing for the grand prize must sign up for a free WorldGaming account, then register for the online football brackets and leaderboard, listed on the tournaments page on the site. Bracket and tournament entry varies between free-to-enter and minimal cash entry fees. The prize pool breakdown (per platform) is as follows:
• First place: $3,000 USD
• Second place: $1,000 USD
• Third and fourth place: $300 USD
• Fifth to eighth place: $100 USD
The company plans to replicate this large prize pool tournament model for other popular eSports titles coming during fall 2016. Additional details on the first edition of the $10,000 tournament series can be found on the official Inside WorldGaming blog, or on the official tournament page.