The date, venue and ticketing information for the PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2024 (PMGC) grand finals in the UK has been announced.
This final competition in the 2024 PUBG Mobile Esports circuit will be hosted at the ExCel Auditorium in London, UK, from December 6th to 8th.
Tickets will be available to the public from August.
The event is one of several esports events taking place in the UK in 2024.
The news comes after it was first announced in December 2023 that the UK would be hosting the $3m 2024 PUBG Mobile Global Championship Grand Finals.
The new date and venue info was revealed by James Yang, Senior Director of Global Esports at Level Infinite (pictured above), who was speaking ahead of the $3m PUBG Mobile World Cup final in Saudi Arabia, which was won by Brazilian team Alpha 7 Esports. This is a part of the Esports World Cup.
The format of this year’s 2024 PMGC is much like the last, with changes to qualifying slots following the introduction of new regional PUBG Mobile Super League (PMSL) series at the start of 2024.
For invited slots, 15 teams will qualify, including two teams from Japan, four from PEL, two from South Korea, the winner of the PUBG Mobile Rivals Cup S2, the PMWC Champions Region, and five special invites.
For the remaining slots, 10 South East Asian teams will qualify from the top five positions of the PMSL SEA Fall, the top four positions by PMGC points for the region, and the winner of the PUBG Mobile Challengers League (PMCL) Fall.
In a similar format, eight Central and South America teams will qualify from the top four positions of the PMSL CSA Fall, and the top four positions by PMGC points for the region.
Moving up to the wider Americas, 6 teams will qualify from the top three teams from the PMSL Americas Fall, alongside the top three by PMGC points for the region. Finally, nine teams from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, including the top five from the PMSL EMEA Fall, and the top four positions by PMGC points for the region.
Other PUBG Mobile updates and stats announced at World Cup, including 40% decrease in reports of in-game cheating
In other news, a new PUBG Mobile Esports circuit has been revealed: Metro Royale Esports.
Introduced to PUBG Mobile in 2021, Metro Royale offers fans a PvPvE mode. The aim of the game is to secure loot whilst fending off enemy players and AI along the way. More details are to be revealed.
Rick Li, producer at PUBG Mobile, took centre stage at this year’s PUBG Mobile World Cup (PMWC) to reveal new updates and future plans for the game.
He emphasised PUBG Mobile’s ‘dedication to providing a fair and safe gaming environment’. He revealed that the game has ‘significantly improved its ability to detect and combat in-game cheats, resulting in the banning of 9.05m accounts, with 5.05m of these accounts banned before they entered a match’.
This has led to a 40% decrease in reports of in-game cheating.
The team has also removed cheat distribution content that had amassed over 25m views, and have permanently banned approximately 4,000 live-streaming accounts that were using cheats.
Li also highlighted the growth of the investigator team, which now consists of 3m certified members. This team has reviewed 980,000 days of video footage, covering over 4m matches, and helped to apparently ban 1m accounts.
Li shared statistics for World of Wonder mode, where players can become game creators, customising their own maps and game elements. Creators worldwide have collectively crafted over 2.5m maps, which have been played a total of 18.4bn times, with 2.82m hours of cumulative time dedicated to editing.
The Ptopia Design Project, a skin co-creation initiative, now has over 200,000 creators with 1.5m submissions. Li also unveiled that PUBG Mobile will be launching a map creation contest in World of Wonder, with a $2m prize pool, alongside $1m in creation incentives for the Ptopia Design Project.
In September players will be able to transform and gain the abilities of werewolves or vampires and face off against a giant vampire boss in a Victorian-style castle. October’s update will transport players to the frozen tundra of Nordic lands, to harness the power of the ice fields to battle ancient giants.
In 2025, inspired by Middle Eastern culture, PUBG Mobile will introduce the ancient and mysterious power of sand, with more details to be unveiled closer to the time.
Earlier this year, PUBG Mobile and British luxury car manufacturer Bentley Motors announced a collaboration.
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.
