WePlay Esports have just revealed their very own Academy League. Here is everything you need to know about it:
WePlay Academy League – What is it?
As can be seen above, the (WAL) WePlay Academy League is going to be an event dedicated towards the youth squads. WePlay recognizes that the future of tomorrow in CS:GO esports is going to be these young players, and it’s important to develop this new generation accordingly.
Teams Participating
For their first edition of the WAL, WePlay are allowing 8 total teams to partake. Here is a short list of all of them:
- Astralis Talent
- Fnatic Rising
- FURIA Academy
- mouz NXT
- NAVI Junior
- BIG. OMEN Academy
- Young Ninjas
- VP.Prodigy
Tournament Format + Dates
The WAL kicks off with its online qualifiers, taking place between the 19th of July and 8th of August. These qualifiers will play out in usual round-robin fashion, where each team will take on every other team twice in best of 1s. After all the online matches are concluded, the top 4 teams get a spot in the LAN event at Kyiv, Ukraine. This main event will play out between the 27th and 29th of August.
These 8 teams will battle it all out for the huge prize pool of $100,000 USD. This will be distributed between the top 4 teams of the main event.
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