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Blizzard Reveals Its Plans for World of Warcraft Esports in 2019

Blizzard lately detailed its plans for World of Warcraft esports in 2019. It is bringing back two tournaments - the Arena World Championship (AWC) and the Mythic Dungeon International (MDI) - and launching some new in-game toys to assist fund prize pools, it said in a weblog post on Thursday.

The Arena World Championship will return having a couple of "fun" twists, Blizzard said. The North America and European regions will get wow items two Arena seasons every single, with six cups per season. For the duration of every single cup, teams will compete for any $10,000 USD prize pool, an increase in comparison with last year's AWC. Each finals event will see the leading four point-earners per season from both regions battle for a $100,000 USD prize pool.

The initial AWC cup begins Feb. 8, Blizzard said. Signups began final week and end on Monday, Jan. 28 at 10 a.m. PDT.

The Asia-Pacific, China, and Latin America regions may also run cups according to the AWC ruleset. Signups for all those commence later this year.

Meanwhile, the Mythic Dungeon Invitational is no longer an invitational in 2019. It's now open to any player using a Blizzard Battle.net account in superior standing. Rebranded the Mythic Dungeon International, it will showcase the world's ideal dungeon-running teams and will be split into two regions: MDI East (China, Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Australia/New Zealand) and MDI West (North America, Latin America, and Europe).

Like the AWC, it can be broken into cups. Each cup for MDI East and MDI West will stream live on Twitch every weekend across six weeks, Blizzard said. Winners will buy wow gold share a $12,000 prize pool per cup and can receive MDI points. In the finish in the season, the top teams from each regions will compete inside a cross-regional LAN event for $100,000 USD.

Blizzard is introducing two new in-game toys to help fund all of those prize pools. They go on sale in the spring. The prize pools for the year's final AWC and MDI LAN events is going to be announced later this year after the sale.
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