Two weeks ago, on December 6, EA Sports and La Liga Esports Elaliga jointly announced that they will hold a new "La Liga Esports China Challenge" in Shanghai, China in January 2024, and at the same time open the "La Liga Esports Summit Cup" with pre-match qualifiers to all players. For the domestic football e-sports industry, this will be the largest official tournament of the FC series game so far, and it is of great significance as the first "national competition" since FC Online and the FC football world entered a new era.
The 2024 La Liga Esports China Challenge is the fourth such event jointly organized by EA Sports and La Liga Esports in China, and the series of events was first created in the "La Liga Esports Fan Cup" in 2021. Unlike most official football competitions, the La Liga Esports Challenge focuses on a wider player base, from influential industry celebrities to a large number of casual passers-by who are not professionals. As a result, the concept of the "Pinnacle Cup" has been created since the 2021-2022 season, which is open to all FC players in the society, and any player has the opportunity to participate in it and become a part of the official competition.
The online qualifiers for the 2024 La Liga Esports Summit Cup are scheduled to take place from December 15 to December 28 and have been running for nearly a week. Before the competition, more than 1,000 elite players from all over the country actively participated, jointly creating an unprecedented registration event for the event. According to some of the participating players, the players participating in this event not only have many grassroots talents with proud records, but also many ace players of professional clubs appeared in the audition, including many e-sports legends such as joy61 Yu Yue and Yuwenc Li Sijun, whose participation has made the La Liga E-sports Summit Cup more exciting.
The legendary player Li Sijun (first from right) at this year's Hangzhou Asian Games).
The addition of legendary players brings a sense of pro vibrancy to the event, while the fast-paced format of BO1 opens up more possibilities for the outcome of the event. In the face of high-intensity challenges, the grassroots players in the La Liga Esports Summit Cup are also calm, showing their unique individual skills and expressing themselves on the green, which is the competitive attitude of many amateur players towards this event. It is reported that several once-unknown folk gods have beaten the pros in the qualifiers, and even though we still don't know the final results of the round of 16, their efforts in the face of the challenge have made this match shine brightly.
Viewers can watch the schedule and results of the La Liga Esports Summit Cup on the official channels of EA Sports Huya, Douyu and Bilibili on January 13 and January 14, 2024, and a week later, on January 20 and 21, the core event La Liga Esports China Challenge will be held offline in Shanghai, which will also be broadcast live by the official channel. Continue to pay attention to the La Liga Esports China series, this exciting competition of our own, must not be missed!
For more information about the event, please pay attention to EA Sports' official Weibo: @easports