Apex Legends announces esports plans for ALGS second season

Sport developer Respawn Leisure has unveiled its Apex Legends esports plans for the second season of its World Sequence (ALGS). 

The second season, which is scheduled to take begin in September 2021, will see quite a lot of modifications, based on the discharge. The primary main change is that the collection could have a brand new format that create separate ranges of competitors for ‘each skilled and novice Apex Legends gamers’.

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This contains the introduction of the ALGS Professional League and Challenger Circuit in North America, EMEA, APAC South, Apac North, and South America, the press launch reads. 

The prize pool of the ALGS will even be elevated, with the brand new season awarding $5m (~£3.6M) in prize cash to the best-placed groups. Prize pool allocations for its occasions haven’t been revealed. 

One other new addition is the inclusion of console gamers, thus increasing the ALGS past PC. Xbox and PlayStation gamers will be capable to take part in competitions utilizing PC-value purpose help settings. Based on the developer, this settings rule has been created to take care of the collection’ aggressive integrity.

Within the press launch, it was acknowledged that the primary ALGS season recorded over 3.5m hours of content material watched. Among the groups that competed within the inaugural season embrace Complexity Gaming, Alliance, Crew Legion, and Cloud9. 

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The brand new season will begin with the preseason qualifiers in September, with the collection set to final by to July 2022 when the finals of the ALGS Championship will happen.

The web preseason qualifiers will look to find out 20 groups from every area that may advance additional within the championship. These groups will be a part of 20 different organisations from every area that will probably be straight invited to the match.

Esports Insider says: The ALGS grew considerably this yr, and it goes to point out that the Apex Legends esports is heading in the right direction. The addition of extra amateur-focused leagues and tournaments can also be welcome, in addition to cross-platform help. 

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