IESF 2022 World Esports Championship MLBB: schedule, format

Updated on December 6, 6:45 p.m. (GMT+8): Updated match score and schedule.

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is one of the esports titles featured in the International Esports Federation’s 14th World Esports Championship 2022 (IESF 2022).

Four teams duked it out in their respective regional qualifiers, while others were directly invited to the tournament. In the end, eight teams from all around the world will be crossing swords in the playoffs, which will be held offline in Bali, Indonesia.

Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming tournament, including the format, schedule, and where to watch the games.


What is IESF 2022’s 14th WE Championship?

SIBOL's roster for IESF WEC 2022
Credit: ONE Esports

The 14th World Esports Championship is the last global Mobile Legends: Bang Bang tournament in 2022. Eight teams from MPL and non-MPL regions will compete for the lion’s share of the US$100,000 prize pool.

Teams from all around the world participated in the regional qualifier. In the end, only the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Slovenia, Vietnam, and Argentina made it to the playoffs and will compete offline in Bali, Indonesia.


IESF 2022 14th WE Championship format

IESF 2022 14th WEC format
Credit: Garudaku

Eight teams from eight countries make up the tournament. Four of them came from the qualifiers (Malaysia, Namibia, Slovenia, and Argentina), while the remaining four were directly invited (Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines).

The eight qualified teams will all start in the upper bracket in a double-elimination format. All matches are best-of-three, except for the grand final which will be a best-of-five.

The tournament will run from December 3 to 10.

COUNTRY QUALIFICATIONS
Cambodia Invited
Malaysia Asia Championship
Namibia African Championship
Vietnam Invited
Slovenia European Championship
Argentina PANAM Open
Indonesia Invited
Philippines Invited

IESF 2022 14th WE Championship schedule

Day 1 (December 3)

Upper bracket quarterfinal

TEAM RESULTS TEAM
Namibia 0
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F1 Esports Series Pro Championship presented by Aramco returns for 2022 with revised format and more live shows

While the real-life Formula 1 season continues at pace, the F1 Esports Series Pro Championship presented by Aramco will return this week with an enhanced offering.

Debuting on Wednesday September 14, a new three day per event format is set to be used, while there will also be more live shows than ever before – as drivers and teams go wheel-to-wheel for a massive $750,000 prize pot.

In 2022, four events will be held, all featuring three days of action – with qualifying and the race for each round taking place on standalone days. The new campaign kicks off at the Sakhir International Circuit on Wednesday, before trips to Imola and Silverstone on Thursday and Friday.

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Additions to this year’s F1 Esports calendar include Suzuka and the Yas Marina Circuit, with the Abu Dhabi venue playing host to the season finale – mirroring the F1 championship.

Each and every qualifying session will be shown live on the official F1 YouTube, Twitch and Huya channels, with the race to be broadcast on the same platforms, plus Facebook. All race day streams will also be broadcast by select television broadcasters, including Sky Sports F1, Viaplay and ESPN.

As usual, production will come live from the Gfinity Arena in London, but drivers will continue to race from team Esports facilities or factories, or their own homes, and will compete on the official F1 22 video game, developed by EA and Codemasters.

2022 F1 Esports calendar

Event Date Round Circuit
1 14 September 1 Sakhir, Bahrain
15 September 2 Imola, Italy
16 September 3 Silverstone, Great Britain
2 12 October 4 Red Bull Ring, Austria
13 October 5 Spa, Belgium
14 October 6 Zandvoort, Netherlands
3 2 November
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McLaren Shadow’s Blakeley claims victory in opening round of 2022 F1 Esports Series Pro Championship at Sakhir

New McLaren Shadow signing Lucas Blakeley triumphed on Wednesday night, taking the 1st race get in the 2022 F1 Esports Collection Professional Championship introduced by Aramco.

Starting on pole, the Scot led absent confidently at the start, but experienced to overhaul reigning champion Jarno Opmeer in buy to just take victory. In a flawlessly orchestrated shift, he and McLaren Shadow staff mate Bari Boroumand got past Opmeer’s Mercedes coming down the major straight on Lap 21.

The new 50% race distance extra a new aspect of strategy to the racing, with Opmeer operating late into the race on the difficult tyres to carry out an overcut. He emerged easily ahead of Boromound and Blakeley, who misplaced floor soon after an rigorous scrap with Frede Rasmussen, and new Haas signing Thomas Ronhaar.

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Pro Exhibition winner Ronhaar was enjoying an wonderful debut, soon after qualifying next and operating in the top rated five for most of the race. But when the four-auto melee ensued, he picked up damage and plummeted down the buy, inevitably retiring.

Opmeer led heading into the latter levels of the race, but the aforementioned McLaren Shadow pincer motion on Lap 21 dropped his medal position from gold to bronze. Mercedes’ top guy did chunk back again on the remaining lap, deposing Boroumand at Convert 1 to snatch again next, but Blakeley was a action also much forward, and he finished as the filling in a Papaya sandwich.

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Eagle Esports Marks Program’s First National Championship

Tue,
05/31/2022 – 15:31pm | By: David Tisdale

Josh MackieJust two a long time following its formation, The College of Southern Mississippi’s (USM)
Eagle Esports application has currently secured its very first national championship following its
Rainbow 6 Group defeated Carthage College past week in the ultimate for the Countrywide
Esports Collegiate Conference’s (NECC) Emergent League title.

In a #1 vs. #2 matchup in the countrywide semifinal for the Challengers League title,
Eagle Esports’ Overwatch Workforce fell to Champlain Higher education, but finished in the leading 4
in the place.

“To be the 1st countrywide championship group for Eagle Esports is some thing I understood
I required to complete when I initially joined the crew,” explained Josh Mackie, a junior personal computer
science significant from Horn Lake, Mississippi who serves as workforce captain for Rainbow 6.
“I never assumed that my 1st calendar year as captain of the group would guide to this stage
of results. We would not be in this position if it wasn’t for my crew and the Esports
employees that go on to help us, and I won’t be able to wait around to provide house additional titles to the
application.” 

Dr. Denny Bubrig, assistant vice president for university student affairs and advisor for the
application, said however he was not anticipating the amount of results the software has realized
this swiftly, he thinks it’s a testament to the scholar participants’ determination
and interest, program large, that it has secured various regular season titles, a
postseason meeting title, a countrywide championship and a countrywide semi-finalist
this yr.

“Without their level of dedication, none of this definitely transpires,” Dr. Bubrig ongoing.
“I am extremely enthusiastic about what the foreseeable future retains.”

Dr. Bubrig claimed the program’s results is contagious and it is observing the final results in
recruiting.

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FaZe continue championship run by winning ESL Pro League Season 15 over ENCE

Soon after a organization displaying during the ESL Pro League Period 15 remaining, FaZe Clan have extended their trophy streak by beating ENCE with a 3-1 rating these days.

This is the 2nd significant CS:GO tournament in a row in which FaZe triumphs. A minor about a month in the past, the global squad claimed their very first trophy this yr by winning IEM Katowice 2022. And when this time they faced a team that could be identified as a dim horse of the event, ENCE still displayed an admirable general performance and created FaZe sweat.

The series started with a stunning map, Vertigo. It was remaining open just after the banning section by FaZe, who have not played at all for the duration of the preceding three months, in accordance to HLTV. This didn’t prevent them, on the other hand, from convincingly using the direct in the sequence with a 16-11 rating, which was mostly many thanks to cohesive gameplay. Although it’s well worth pointing to rain, who stood out between his teammates with a 27/17 K/D ratio, the greatest on the server on map one.

ENCE matched FaZe’s aggression and furnished admirers with an extraordinary displaying on the second map, Overpass, which was picked by karrigan’s adult men. Immediately after a comfortable counter-terrorist aspect, FaZe caught up and led to the only extra time in the sequence. There, ENCE’s hades, who won various clutches on Overpass, did so again, which assisted his group even up the rating in the series with a 19-17 victory.

Even now, working experience and the skill to participate in under stress have been pivotal for FaZe later on. On Mirage, the series’ 3rd map, hades and his teammates finished the 1st 50 % with a easy 7-8 final result on the terrorist facet.

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Road to Magic World Championship XXVIII begins at Innistrad Championship

Magic esports is returning with the very first match of the 2021-22 season, the Innistrad Championship, on Dec. 3 to 5. All 3 times start at 11am CT on the Magic Twitch channel.

Coming off a Planet Championship that saw Japanese standout Yuta Takahashi get the title, Magic enters the final time of the Magic Professional League and Rivals League experiment.

The 2021-22 period is the remaining year of competition just before the league program is dissolved and Magic starts a new period most most likely centered all-around digital and in-individual activities. When the Rivals League and MPL are however intact, inter-league enjoy won’t be occurring thanks to the elimination of League Weekends from the schedule.

League gamers will acquire invitations to just about every set championship, receive a contracted income, and compete to qualify for subsequent year’s Earth Championship. They will not be competing for invitations to a upcoming league period, on the other hand.

Despite the a bit lowered stakes, there is even now a $450,000 prize pool on the line for the more than 250 players who are certified for the Innistrad Championship. Gamers who get paid 12 match wins are routinely qualified into the working day-3 leading eight. The remaining leading-eight placements will be identified by tiebreakers.

The top rated-6 finishers will generate invites to following year’s Magic Entire world Championship XXVIII. All other players will earn qualifying points identified by their complete.

The very first two times will consist of 15 swiss rounds. Each day starts with Historic rounds and ends with Normal engage in. Rounds just one to three and eight to 11 will be Historic. Rounds 4 to 7 and 12 to 15 are heading to be Standard.

The Innistrad Championship is the 1st significant event to highlight Historic following the release of

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