The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends Global Seri♌es Championship has come to a close. Year 4 saw the ALGS visit three different continents for its major LAN tournaments fo♕r the first time, culminating in an almighty showdow♎n in Sapporo, Japan.
Usually this would be followed by months of inactivity, a lull in the competitive 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends calendar after the crescendo of the Championship. Not this year. Registration for the Preseason Qualifiers is now open, with the first matches kicking off in just three weeks, on February 22. The top eight teams from each region will advance to Pro League alongside 22 invited teams, which begins on April 6. In 2025, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Apex Legends esports simply will not stop.
Apex Legends’ 480-Player ALGS Open Tournament
The big🍌gest changes this year affect LANs. Instead of the Split 1 Playoffs, we have the ALGS Open, an enormous tournament for every Pro League team, occurring in the middle of Split 1. Add another 40 teams from the Preseason Qualifier into the mix, and you’ve got a LAN with 160 teams, or 480 players; one of the largest iꦗn battle royale esports history.
The ALGS is cond𝔍ensing its six regions into four, adding China into APAC North and combining Nort𝔉h America and South America into the Americas, after a successful trial in the BLGS.
“It's going to feel like a gigantic LAN party,” ALGS commissioner John Nelson tells me. “It's going toღ feel like the MLG events of old or your EVO type of event.”
Nelson sees the ALGS Open as “investing” in the amateur and semi-pro scene, offering many players their first opportunities to play at a LAN. He hopes it will be exciting for players at all levels of competition, and even encoura♓ge new players to join the esport.
With all three Year 5 LANs condensing to four-day events, the ALGS Open is going to have four matches running concurrent𓄧ly, with one on the main stage and the other three on the floor.
With so many teams at the ALGS Open, the points system for qualifying for the Championship is changing slightly, too. Playoff Points are now Championship Points, and every Pro League match will grant you some spoils in addition to LAN performance. This will create a leaderboard wꦺith hundreds of teams, offering more chances for glory and, in Nelson’s words, a “greater sense of like a world ranking of the teams”.
After Split 1 has finished, we go straight into the season’s second LAN, the Mid-Season Playoffs. That feeds into Split 2, and then we’re back around to the Year Championship bef🌸ore we know it.
While the ALGS isn’t sharing LAN locations just yet, Apex Legends global brand marketing lead Jasmine Chiang tells me they are “always looking to bring the ALGS to all🦹 of our fans from around the world.”
When I pushed as to whether we’d be travelling across continents again or seeing something ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚmore akin to Year 3, where a✨ll three in-person tournaments took place in England. Nelson confirmed this won’t be the case.
“I can tell you we're not doing that,” says Nelson of the Year 3 setup. “It's highly unlikely we will have an ALGS year in the future where all of our LANs are in the same place – it was a necessity of the times. But it is the Apex Legends Global Series, so🌊 we look to bring our LANs to all of the different humongous communities that we have around the world.”
Apex Legends Legend Bans And New Map
As well as a shift to the schedule, there are going to be a few changes to the ALGS gameplay this year. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Broken Moon is being added to the 🌱map rotation, thanks to the .
“We've seen such good reception to having E-District and I'm personally having a great time watching the pros playinဣg on the map now,” says Chiang. “So we'll be adding another map to the ecosystem – Broken Moon – 🍒going into Year 5.”
The ot⛄her major change is Legend bans, something often seen in other esports but tricky to implement in a battle royale where 20 teams need to decide on which Legend is removed. Thankfully, the system that the ALGS is introducing takes the decision out of players’ hands.
The most-used Legend in a match is automatically banned for the rest of the round. If all 20 teams pick Neꦑwcastle in the first match, he can’t be used for matches two, three, four, five, or six. In Match Point, he🅺 wouldn’t be able to be played for the rest of the day, no matter how long it takes.
There are a couple of caveats to this. Firstly, if the next Legend due to be banned is the last in their class, the first one in that class that was banned opens up again. There are also stringent tiebreaker rules if two Legends are picked the same number of times at the top of the table. Here are the 🌃rules as written:
“If more than one legend is tied for the most picks in a match, the team with the highest Match Score that didn’t use all of the tied Legends will break the tie and the Legend they used will be removed. If the tie began with three Legends and the first tiebreaker left two Legends tied, the process will continue until the tie that remains is resolved. If a tie remains after consulting all Teams’ Legend usage in the previous match, the t🍎ie will be broken randomly. Match Score ties will be broken by Match Placement.”
This should shake up the meta considerably as tournaments prꦯogress. With eight-match rounds a thing of the past in Year 5, each six-match series will change before our eyes. Teams wil💖l have to be adaptable, and new sub-metas will emerge.
“It's going to be challenging to players,” says Chiang, “but a very exciting thing for the Apex fans ꦓand the Apex community.”
🤪The Year 4 ALGS Championship in Sapporo will be difficult to top. With 32,000 tickets sold across the week, a sold-out Championship Sunday, and a live band performing a bespoke track written for the tournament in the opening ceremony, it feels like the pinnacle of ALGS competition. But Nelson and Chiang want next year to be bigger, better, to continue growing in every metric.
Nelson sums it up simply. “Our goalposts is to make ALGS the biggestꦗ a🧜nd best battle royale esport in the world.”
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