Guild Esports has seen its most profitable weekend but for prize cash, as its professional gamers and the organisation recorded a sequence of sturdy leads to main tournaments for FIFA, VALORANT and Rocket League. The organisation netted greater than $420k in prize cash in 48 hours between July sixteenth – 18th throughout the three titles.
In FIFA, Guild’s Argentinian star Nicolas Villalba (“Nicolas99fc”) adopted up his recent eChampions League win with a penalty shoot-out loss to RB Leipzig’s 18-year outdated Umut Gültekin within the last of the FIFA eWorld Cup, profitable $100k in prize cash. Nicolas may even be representing his nation, Argentina, within the FIFAe Nations Collection later this month.
Elsewhere, Guild’s Rocket League group consisting of CRR (Spain), Deevo (UK) and Dorito (Spain), positioned second on the Gamers8 pageant in Saudi Arabia to Brazil’s FURIA, scooping $300k in prize cash – with the event being probably the most profitable competitors in Rocket League historical past, because the group’s outcomes proceed to enhance.
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And at last, Guild’s VALORANT group, which is made up of koldamenta (Spain), Sayf (Sweden) Russ (UK), Leo (Sweden) and trexx (Russia), noticed their greatest ever end result – putting seventh at their first main LAN occasion, the Valorant VCT Masters. The group beat the reigning VALORANT champions, OpTic, within the event, which marked solely the second time a group making their worldwide debut has ever accomplished so, earlier than scooping $25k in prize cash as they finally misplaced to FPX Esports within the Play-offs.
You may see how the motion performed out throughout all competitions on the Guild Twitter.
Kal Hourd, CEO of Guild Esports, mentioned: “We’re extremely pleased with all our groups, from the gamers to the assist employees, they usually deserve each success they get. Guild is constructing one thing distinctive to vary the sport on the planet of esports – and these outcomes are only the start of displaying how our mannequin breeds success, and others needs to be able to comply with swimsuit.”
The outcomes are the most recent in a string of successes for Guild Esports in 2022, because the organisation received the FIFA eChampions League, and just lately appointed the primary ever full-time Safeguarding & Wellbeing Lead for an esports organisation, to guide the holistic care and safeguarding of their esports athletes, academy gamers and figures all through Guild.
Earlier this 12 months, Guild launched a new jersey for his or her elite aggressive groups, forward of the opening of its first International HQ in London, serving to it forge a brand new degree of excellence in aggressive gaming, leisure and tradition and attain new audiences, followers and worldwide markets.