It’s Week 4 of the Esports World Cup, which means that we’re more than halfway through the seven-week event. The winners for major esports like Valorant, Apex Legends, League of Legends, and Call of Duty Bo6 are already decided, but Week 4 will crown four new champions in Saudi Arabia.
The winners of PUBG Mobile, Overwatch 2, MLBB, and EWC’s controversial Chess tournament will all be set this week at EWC 2025.
PUBG Mobile at EWC format
PUBG Mobile enters its Survival Stage, in which 16 teams will duke it out for the 8 remaining spots in the Grand Finals. The Survival Stage will last two days, with 12 matches in total between July 29-30.
The Grand Final will be played over three days, with 16 teams players six games per day for a maximum of 18 matches. The map rotation is as follows: Sanhok, Erangel, Erangel, Erangel, Miramar, Miramar.
After Match 12, the winning threshold will be calculated as the highest team’s score plus 10. Once a team reaches that threshold, they can win the tournament when they get a win, aka a Winner Winner Chicken Dinner (WWCD).
The winner will get $80,000 and contribute 1000 Club Points to the EWC Club Championship Standings.
Overwatch 2 and MLBB
Overwatch 2 and Mobile Legends Bang Bang will have more recognisable formats to non-battlegrounds fans, with MLBB and Overwatch 2’s Midseason Championships both having eight-team playoff brackets, single-elimination, with a third-place decider.
MLBB quarter-finals are already set, whereas Overwatch 2’s group stage kicks off on July 31. In MLBB, Liquid vs Aurora and RRQ vs SRG/OG are amongst the spicy set of matches, with favourites certain to suffer. Have a feeling? See our Esports Betting Sites for all the odds.
Overwatch may not be at its peak as an esport, but top organisations, Liquid, Virtus.pro, T1, AL, and so on are all present at OWCS. Crazy Racoon, however, will go in as the huge favourites as the Korean roster came out on top of the Champions Clash in April.
For Chess’s format, see our Chess at EWC format section.
Darragh Harbinson is an esports writer specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports News UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.
