The KeSPA Cup, which has been revived in three years, opens on the 30th and hosts the final on December 8th
Dec 01, 2024
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The KeSPA Cup, hosted by the Korea e-Sports Association, will be designated as a national team selection index review competition starting this year, and the competition data will be used to select national players. As a result, it is expected to actively cope with the gradually expanding national competition and contribute to the selection of fair national teams. As a representative example of the Asian Games, there are military service benefits when winning a gold medal, so interest in selecting a representative is inevitably high. In addition, there is a possibility that the national team, not the invited team, will participate in the Olympic e-Sports Games (OEG), which will start next year.
In addition to the 10 teams participating in the domestic league, LCK, a total of 12 teams, including the Vietnam All-Star Team and the Taiwan All-Star Team, will participate. It is a good opportunity for the 10 LCK teams, which have already confirmed their roster next year in time for the KeSPA Cup, to test their power before the opening of the regular season and at the same time check their international sense of play. In the case of 10 teams, first- or second-tier players were placed on the roster.
Starting with Group A on the opening day, the Group A and Group B full-league qualifiers will be held for four days until the 3rd. Group A has six teams, including OK Savings Bank Brion, DRX, BNK Pierx, Guangdong Frix, KT Rollster, Taiwan All-Star, and Group B has six teams, including D+ Kia, Gen.G., Hanwha Life e-Sports, Nongshim Red Force, T1, and Vietnam All-Star.
A total of eight teams, each of the top four teams in the group, will be on the top Swiss-Interstage starting on the 4th. Opponents will be determined according to the group stage ranking, and the team that wins the match between the first place will go straight to the semifinals, and the losing team between the fourth place will be eliminated. After four matches, the semifinals will be finalized. The semifinals and finals, which will determine the main characters of the KeSPA Cup, will be held at V-Space in Jung-gu, Seoul, for two days from the 7th to the 8th. The total prize money is 80 million won, and the winning team will be awarded a trophy and 40 million won in prize money.
First of all, KT and BNK lost 2-1 in the full league on the first day of Group A on the 30th, DRX and OK Savings Bank lost 1-1, and Taiwan All-Star and Guangdong lost 2 and 3, respectively.
Jeon Yong-joon, Kim Eui-jung, Shim Ji-soo, and Lee Sung-hoon will participate as the broadcast crew, while Jeong No-cheol, Ko Soo-jin, Lim Joo-wan, Heo Man-heung, Nam Tae-yu, and Shin Jung-hyun will participate in the commentary, and announcer Yoon Soo-bin will participate in the interview. Korean broadcasting will be broadcast exclusively on Naver's local network. It can be viewed through official broadcasting and streamer cost-liming through Naver's official LCK and KeSPA channels. The English broadcast will be held on Naver's KeSPA English Channel and the Korea Esports Association's YouTube channel.
Naver Pay points will be provided through a lottery for streamers who will broadcast 'Watch Together' during the competition. In addition, events will be held where viewers can enjoy the game in a wider variety, such as predicting the outcome of leaving team support messages and generating streamer reaction clips. This competition is sponsored by SK Telecom, Logitech G, CASS, Naver CGIZIC, and Powerful X.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
