First E-sports World Cup Ends in Saudi Arabia with Record-breaking Prize Pool and Announces 2025 Return

TapTechNews August 26th news, the first E-sports World Cup ended in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia on August 25th local time.

Over the past 8 weeks, the event has attracted about 1500 professional players from all over the world to participate. The total prize pool of the event exceeded 60 million US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 428 million yuan), which is the largest event in the history of e-sports and broke the record of 45 million US dollars (currently about 321 million yuan) set by Gamers8 in 2023.

According to statistics, the E-sports World Cup attracted more than 2 million visits. Compared with the same period last year, the number of tourists in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, increased by more than 29% during the event.

The first E-sports World Cup held events of multiple games, including , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and .

In the finals of the project of the E-sports World Cup on August 12th, the Chinese player Kid Zeng Zhuojun defeated the Japanese player KAWANO 5:2 and won the championship, taking the < 300,000 US dollars (currently about 2.139 million yuan) championship bonus. It is worth noting that 6 of the 8 finalists were from Japan.

At the closing ceremony, the Saudi official announced that the second E-sports World Cup will return in summer 2025 (July to August).