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The latest Apex Legends Global Series event, the 2025 ALGS Championship, kicks off in Japan on January 29th with a mix of UK talent and teams taking part.
2025 ALGS Championship key info including schedule and prize pool
The event runs from January 29th to February 2nd 2025 at the Daiwa House Premist Dome in Sapporo, Japan.
It features 40 teams and a $2m prize pool, courtesy of corporate and controversial games publisher EA, with the first-place team taking home $600,000 and the runners-up receiving $320,000.
In terms of the schedule, the group stage runs for two days on January 29th and 30th, before the bracket stage on January 31st and February 1st, then the match point finals on Sunday Feb 2nd.
The ALGS Year 4 Championship expects more than 30,000 people in attendance
The event’s official song, ‘Champions’, will also be performed by Sim on Saturday February 1st at 11am JST.
All the teams competing at the 2025 ALGS Championship in Japan, plus UK orgs and players
40 teams from around the world will be taking part in this Apex Legends esports event, including UK-headquartered organisations Fnatic, Guild, Noctem and Exo Clan.
There will also be several UK players involved, including Slayers and Feuda with Exo Clan, Amphy and Zaine on NiP, Naghz on Faze, alongside Jmw (who won the ALGS Split 2 playoffs in 2022 as an emergency sub), and more.
Disguised Toast’s org Disguised has arctic on their roster, while Gaimin Gladiators has Blasts, Orgless and Hungry have iHenchman and Stallions has bouncyblue as a coach.
UK org Noctem also have a UK coach, Bowzey, alongside UK players mohziin and RemixPowers, and Brazilian talent Atinum.
The full list of teams at the 2025 ALGS Championship in Japan is as follows:
Group A
- Shopify Rebellion
- TSM
- Cloud9
- 100 Thieves
- NRG
- Exo Clan
- NiP
- shadow3690
- Faze Clan
- Oblivion
Group B
- Fnatic
- Guild
- Disguised
- VK Gaming
- Complexity
- Green Stego
- Virtus Pro
- Dragons
- XNY
- Meteor
Group C
- Gaimin Gladiators
- Team Falcons
- Luminosity
- Aurora
- Team Burger
- Noctem
- Orgless and Hungry
- GHS Professional
- Reignite
- Zero Tenacity
Group D
- Alliance
- Crazy Raccoon
- Envy
- Liquid
- Dreamfire
- Furia
- Enter Force 36
- GoNext
- Stallions
- Supernova
Info courtesy of Liquipedia and Apex Legends.
UK FGC legend Ryan Hart heads to Japan for ALGS event alongside Gaskin, Onset and more
One of the UK’s most decorated fighting game players, ‘Prodigal Son’ Ryan Hart, has surprisingly joined an Apex Legends esports broadcast for the 2025 Championship event in Japan.
He will be working as a host, and joins UK casters Gaskin (who won Colour Caster of the Year at the 2023 Esports Awards) and Onset on the broadcast.
Other hosts include GlitterXplosion, LACE and Raynday, plus casters DiA, Genome, Graceful, Jamerson and VikkiKitty (who we interviewed at the London ALGS a few years ago).
There’s also JHawk, Snip3down and Zephyr as analysts, and MrGreekGod and NiceWigg as B-stream casters.
????️ This experienced roster brings a dynamic mix of familiar voices and fresh perspectives, ready to bring the action to you throughout the Championship! @RayndayGaming @GlitterXplosion @laceysomerville @RyanJosephHart @esports_DiA @DanGaskin @GENOMEgg @OnsetMTH… pic.twitter.com/RJfDr8Q4at
— Apex Legends Esports (@PlayApexEsports) January 21, 2025
Twitch drops during 2025 ALGS Championship
Apex Legends has announced Twitch drops are coming back for the Year 4 Champs event.
Viewers can watch the broadcast on the playapex Twitch channel to get five unique drops including the Champs Trophy Sticker and Golden Nessie Gun Charm.
Apex will also be giving away 50,000 Apex Coins overall.
Players need to link their EA account to Twitch to be able to get the Twitch Drops. There’s more info on the ALGS website here.
So there we go, key info on the ALGS 2025 Championship event. Let’s just hope it runs without a hitch this time, following disruptions at ALGS London and the ALGS hacking incident last year
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.
