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Nation-based esports tournament, the Global Esports Games (GEG), has been delayed to next year as it works to finalise the host city and date.
The event, organised by the Global Esports Federation, usually takes place in December each year, but the 2024 tournament has now been pushed back to early 2025.
Global Esports said in a statement published earlier today: “We can’t wait to get the #worldconnected community together for the Global Esports Games.
“The Global Esports Games 2024 will be staged in early 2025, ensuring an exceptional experience for athletes, fans and our community.”
In 2023, GEG took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
And earlier this year, Lima, the capital of Peru, was announced as the host city of the 2025 Global Esports Games. It’s unclear whether this will still take place in December 2025, be pushed back, or if Lima could host the delayed 2024 tournament.
The Global Esports Games typically features semi-pro players, with the separate Global Esports Tour aiming to target pro/full-time players. For example, the Global Esports Tour Rio de Janeiro 2024 featured Counter-Strike teams including Furia, Pain Gaming, OG and others.
Two years ago, Street Fighter player The4Philzz earned a silver medal for Great Britain at Global Esports Games 2022, and a year prior, GB’s Dota 2 women’s team won silver at the 2021 Global Esports Games (pictured, top). Speaking of which…
Update: James Fudge has done some further reporting on this story for The Esports Advocate, saying that sources have told them for months that ‘the organisation was having some sort of issue with the Chinese government’.
GB Dota 2 women’s team face uncertainty as Global Esports Games 2024 is delayed
The Great Britain women’s Dota 2 team have qualified for the upcoming Global Esports Games, after winning the Europe Qualifier back in August.
Their roster consists of Marceline, Gimmick, bellemiku, Beth and Taxes, and Karenlyl.
bellemiku took to Twitter to give an update on the situation:
bellemiku added: “The Global Esports Federation’s lack of transparency on this matter has been absolutely unacceptable, they have not respected our careers or our time and have left us completely in the dark. This is not an event like normal esports, most of us have careers outside of gaming, family to take care of etc.
“I’m honestly annoyed because now our federation [the British Esports Federation] itself has put so much time and effort into this being held next month. For myself personally, I had to purchase extra holiday days for work which are now useless, so I’m losing actual money just because they were not communicating.”
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.
