With League of Legends Worlds, Riot Games proved that - given enough resources - a safe and spectacular offline esports event can be hosted amid a global pandemic. Now PUBG Corp. is aiming to pull off something similarly ambitious with this year's Global Invitational.
32 teams from eight regions will all be flown out to the South Korean capital of Seoul for an eight-week event with a $3.5 million prize pool; and all the action will be played on LAN. Running from February 1, 2021, up until the final week of March, there's a whole lot of PUBG to be played. But as was evident from the strict quarantining and bubble system imposed on LoL pros in Shanghai for Worlds, keeping everyone safe is a military operation.
However, PUBG's esports project manager Michael Sung is confident that all the effort will be worth it for fans of competitive PUBG.
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