PUBG Corp. Announces 2019 PUBG Global Championship Details
By Nicholas Barth ·
The PUBG Global Championship will see teams from across the world compete to claim the title of best professional PUBG team in the world.
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) was at the forefront of putting the battle royale genre on the video game industry map, and now PUBG Corp. is looking to help propel battle royale esports into the future with the announcement of its inaugural season of professional competition. Nine pro regions will be competing against each other and among themselves in order to secure at a spot and chance to fight for the Global Championship at the end of the season.
January 2019 is when the inaugural season of the title's Global Championship will begin the first of three phases that will be at the center of the competition. Each pro region will begin and end their own league competitions in the same time frame of each other. After the completion of each phase, each of the regions' top teams will battle it out in various global events that will be hosted by select third party organizers. A Global Championship All-Star match will take place between Phase 2 and 3 at the midpoint section of the season.
A universal rule set that consists of 16 teams of four playing in first person perspective on the maps of Mirarmar and Erangel will be in effect for all competitions under the first season of play.
The end of Phase 3 of the Global Championship will then see the top teams of each region for the entire season will gather together to compete for a $2,000,000 prize pool at the Global Championship finals.
Six of the nine regions will operate under a pro league format, while the remaining three will function under a pro circuit format where a series of tournaments will be the main form of competition. You can find all nine of the competing regions and their competition format for the 2019 season below.
Pro League
North America - National PUBG League (NPL)
Europe - PUBG Europe League (PEL)
Korea - PUBG Korea League (PKL)
China
Japan - PUBG Japan Series (PJS)
Chinese Taipei/Hong Kong/ Macao
Pro Circuit
Southeast Asia
Latin America
Oceania
With the Global Championship for Player Unknown's Battlegrounds now having been officially announced, PUBG Corp. will be looking for its professional season of official sponsored esports to help push its battle royale to the top of the professional gaming industry and to find out which region has the very best team.
Source - PUBG
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