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Apex Legends’ developer, Respawn Games, and the game’s publisher, Electronic Arts, today a series of esports events for the game later this year, including a professional tournament with a $500,000 prize pool on September 13-15. The event will be called "The Preseason Invitational" and will take place in Krakow, Poland. A🌠t the event, 240 players divided into 80 teams will compete in a doublﷺe-elimination format tournament for the invitational.
Apex Legends, for those who somehow haven't played the game, is a first-person battle royale game set in the sci-fi universe of Respawn's Titanfall. The game puts an interesting spin on the battle royale formula by grouping players into three-person teams, introducing hero shooter-style characters with special abilities, and the implementation of a useful ping system for marking loot or enemies without needing voice chat. Though Apex: Legends takes place in the same universe as Titanfall, there are no mechs in the game for players to pilot. The game also limits mobility for most of the chara🍨cters, compared to other Respawn games, to more closely match the pace of the battle royale genre.
In addition to the Preseason Invitational, Apex Legends will be played at this year's X Games hosted by in Minneapolis, MN in August. A win at the X Games won’t be as lucrative as at The Preseason Invitational with a $150,000 prize pool compared to $500,000 but winners at the X Games take home medals. The X Games will also host a professional versus amateur tournament, called the EXP P𓆉ro-Am, for charity with a $25,000 charity prize pool.
The news of the esports competitions comes on the heels of the release of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:second season of Apex Legends, which brought the addition of a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:new character and major . For a battle royale style game like Apex Legends, these types of updates are fairly standard, but the cadence of launch, to se♒asons, to professional esports events with Apex Legends seems accelerated.