The inter-Asian esports tournament for EA Sports FIFA Online 4, EA Champions Cup Summer 2022 (EACC) is only two weeks away and will be hosted online by both Electonic Arts (EA) and ONE Esports.

The tournament will run from 15 August to 21 August and will be broadcast across China, Korea, Thailand and Vietnam, featuring 12 teams competing over a week of intense competition for a total US$100,000 prize pool.

Inaugurating in 2014 as the FIFA Online 3 Spearhead Invitational, the tournament was the first-ever international FIFA Online esports competition. It later evolved into the Asian Cup in 2015, finally becoming the EA Champions Cup in 2016. Since then, it has brought together the best professional FIFA Online 4 teams twice a year, in a battle to become the champions of Asia.

EVENT FORMAT

Three teams from each participating country – China, Korea, Thailand and Vietnam – each consisting of three to four players, will battle it out in a two-sided double-elimination style bracket.

During this double-elimination bracket, each matchup will be played in a Best-of-5 format, meaning that teams must win at least three games out of the maximum five games played to advance. Both teams in the matchup will nominate a different individual athlete for each of the first three games.

For the optionally required games four and five, the athletes from games one, two, and three can be re-nominated. As a result, a single athlete can only compete in a maximum of two games during a single matchup between two FIFA Online 4 teams, putting a greater focus on the performance and tactics of the entire team

SCHEDULE

PLAYOFFS – LEFT HALF

Dates: 15–17 August
Start Time: 4:00 PM (GMT+8)

PLAYOFFS – RIGHT HALF

Dates: 19–20 August
Start Time: 5:00 PM (GMT+8)

SEMIFINAL & GRAND FINAL

Dates: 21 August
Start Time: 4:00 PM (GMT+8)

TEAMS

CHINA

• Wolves
• Nova Esports
• Manchester City

SOUTH KOREA

• Freecs
• Daejeon Hana Citizen
• Crazy Win

THAILAND

• GRATZ
• MiTR Coffee
• NRsports Team

VIETNAM

• ProGamer
• DIH Esport
• Tony Tonyy

WHERE TO WATCH?

English: YouTube / Facebook

Mandarin: Bilibili / Douyu / Huya / Weibo

Korean: AfreecaTV / Nexon / YouTube

Thai: AfreecaTV / Facebook

Vietnamese: AfreecaTV / Facebook