UK-based esports organisation Guild Esports have announced their re-entry into Apex Legends and will field a team at the Esports World Cup this year.
Guild’s new Apex Legends team has competed together as ‘Serenity’ since November 2023. The team comprises Australian professional players Benjamin “Jesko” Spaseski, Tyson “Buegy” Crossman and Tom “Legacy” Canty, as well as team coach Winnie “tiltedwinnie” Long. The team has been signed on a one-year contract.
They recently qualified for the Esports World Cup (EWC) and will represent Guild at the tournament, competing for a share of the $2m prize pool.
Guild’s new Apex Legends team also secures org’s place in the Esports World Cup Club Championship. This is a cross-game competition at the EWC, where the world’s best esports organisations will compete for a share of a $20m team prize pool.
Alongside Apex Legends, Guild have qualified for the Esports World Cup in ESL R1, a sim racing competition, and Street Fighter, with Hong Kong player Chiu ‘Rainpro’ Chin-yat. Each esports team must qualify for the EWC in at least two games to be eligible for the Club Championship, and as such Guild has now met the requirement for entry.
“Apex Legends is the perfect game to secure our entry into the Club Championship. Our talent scouts have long been on the lookout for the perfect team to bring us back to the esport.”
Jasmine Skee, Guild Esports
Guild previously competed in Apex Legends between October 2021 and June 2022 and have returned to the esport for the EWC.
The new Apex Legends Guild roster will additionally represent the company at other major international tournaments such as the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS), which features multiple stages such as online qualifiers, playoffs and championships, drawing top teams from around the world. Apex Legends has two annual majors with a prize pool of $1m (each online qualifier has a prize pool of $125k) and an end-of-year Global Series Final with a prize pool of $2m.
Jasmine Skee, CEO of Guild Esports, commented: “The Esports World Cup promises to be the biggest and most exciting esports event in history. We’re delighted to have joined the Club Championship and to be competing at the tournament for a share of that $20m prize pool.
“Apex Legends is the perfect game to secure our entry into the Club Championship. Our talent scouts have long been on the lookout for the perfect team to bring us back to the esport. They’ve done a stellar job in finding Legacy, Buegy and Jesko, who are some of the most exciting young players on the Apex Legends scene. We’ll be cheering them on as they take the Esports World Cup by storm – we can’t wait to see what they can do.”
Elsewhere, Guild have entered Mobile Legends: Bang Bang as part of a collaboration with R8 Esports.
The team will be known as Guild.R8 Esports.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
