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English Premier League football club Wolves have seen their Wolves Esports Honor of Kings team reach a major grand final.
They will compete in the Honor of Kings KPL (King Pro League) grand final against AG Super Play. This will take place from 10.15am GMT at the sold-out Beijing Workers’ Stadium in China on Saturday November 16th 2024, in front of some 30,000+ fans.
Fans can also watch the final online via the HoK Global Esports YouTube channel.
Wolves will be seeking revenge on AG Super Play, who knocked them down into the lower bracket after a 4-3 result in the upper bracket semi-finals earlier this month.
Wolves then beat Rogue Warriors 4-2, eStar Pro 4-0 and KuaiShow Gaming 4-3 in an incredible reverse sweep after going 3-0 down.
Claire Teng, Wolves Esports General Manager, told Esports News UK: “Qualifying for the Honor of Kings KPL grand final is a huge accomplishment in itself and we will be hoping we can go one further and claim the title.
“Competing in front of more than 30,000 fans is going to be something special and we know the atmosphere is going to be electric.
“We will do everything we can to make it a memorable event for not just our own fans but for Honor of Kings fans in general.”
A delegation from Savvy Games and the Esports World Cup Foundation will also join the event hosted by Chinese tech giant Tencent and the largest esports company in Asia, Hero Esports (formerly known as VSPO).
HRH Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, Vice Chairman of Savvy Games Group (Savvy); Brian Ward, CEO of Savvy; and Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports World Cup Foundation, will attend the tournament, where two top Chinese esports teams competed for the inaugural Holy Dragon Cup and a record prize pool.
Honor of Kings is a mobile MOBA game that was recently only available in China, but launched worldwide on June 20th this year.
The main Honor of Kings Wolves Esports roster consists of Chinese players GuiQi, Yu, DaoZai, YiSheng and Pang, with the latter having won the game’s Esports World Cup with KPL Dream Team earlier this year.
“Competing in front of more than 30,000 fans is going to be something special and we know the atmosphere is going to be electric.”
Claire Teng, Wolves Esports
The King Pro League features a prize pool of almost $10m, with the winner of this weekend’s final taking home around $3m, and the runners-up around $1.3m.
Earlier this year, Wolves won the TFT Esports World Cup, and recently revealed their roster for the Street Fighter League Pro Europe 2024.
Wolves will also be competing in the ePremier League once again, with the FC tournament returning for 2025.
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.
