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EWC 2025 details: $700k total prize; GSL, DH Dallas confir…

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-04-17 14:52:35
April 17 2025 14:39 GMT
#1


The Esports World Cup revealed key details about its 2025 StarCraft II tournament through its Twitter/X account.

The event will be held from July 22-25, with 18 players competing for a $700,000 prize pool.

Spots at the event will be awarded through dedicated EWC qualifier, as well as to top finishers in third party events. In listing those third party events, EWC confirmed that DreamHack Dallas and at least one season of GSL will be played in 2025.

Qualifying spots breakdown:
  • (4) DreamHack Dallas
  • (2) GSL
  • (1) Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora
  • (4) EWC Global Qualifier
  • (2) EWC Korea Qualifier
  • (2) EWC Europe Qualifier
  • (1) EWC Americas Qualifier
  • (1) EWC Asia Qualifier
  • (1) Defending EWC champion
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veniss
Profile Joined August 2018
74 Posts
April 17 2025 15:00 GMT
#2
GSL is back!
ZeroByte13
Profile Joined March 2022
757 Posts
April 17 2025 15:09 GMT
#3
Oh, so GSL isn't dead yet?
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
384 Posts
April 17 2025 16:42 GMT
#4
good to have a GSL sendoff with those who remain!
tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3321 Posts
April 17 2025 16:44 GMT
#5
GSL is just a glorified "KR regional" for ESL DH Master, dont have the same privilige nor prize money it used to have. Btw, are they still collecting Patreon money all these time?
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1124 Posts
April 17 2025 17:17 GMT
#6
Uhm...IEM Dallas (not DH Dallas, isn't the DH-brand dead for like five years or something like that?) is next month. How exactly is that supposed to go smoothly?
GSL will also be...interesting. Can't imagine it will even be remotely a full-offline season.

18 players also seems icky, considering they might go with the same format as last year, which I would say was the biggest point of criticism about the event itself?
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
Antithesis
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1146 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-04-17 17:44:38
April 17 2025 17:41 GMT
#7
Is it actually stated anywhere that the qualifier tournaments listed (DH, GSL, and so on) are meant to be future tournaments taking place prior to EWC, which is, like, in the next few months? I honestly thought they refer to the last 2024 tournaments.

Edit: Okay, I looked it up, they confirmed on X that "More details on DreamHack Dallas coming very soon". Well, that's neat and surprising.
Mutation complete.
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8230 Posts
April 17 2025 18:36 GMT
#8
Lmao I don't think this is going to be as successful as people think it will be, partially due to the political climate in the USA right now. The other part being that teams and players have only 3 months, realistically, only a couple weeks, to sign contracts and get back into form.
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33316 Posts
April 17 2025 18:43 GMT
#9
On April 18 2025 02:17 Balnazza wrote:
Uhm...IEM Dallas (not DH Dallas, isn't the DH-brand dead for like five years or something like that?) is next month. How exactly is that supposed to go smoothly?
GSL will also be...interesting. Can't imagine it will even be remotely a full-offline season.

18 players also seems icky, considering they might go with the same format as last year, which I would say was the biggest point of criticism about the event itself?


It's not IEM Dallas. That's a CS event by EFG that happens to be held at DH Dallas, but that doesn't make every esportS event there an IEM. Since you're being weirdly pedantic, the official branding on the Dreamhack website is "Road to EWC." Or just stop being pedantic and call it Dreamhack [location] like people have since the WCS days.

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Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1124 Posts
April 17 2025 19:44 GMT
#10
On April 18 2025 03:43 Waxangel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2025 02:17 Balnazza wrote:
Uhm...IEM Dallas (not DH Dallas, isn't the DH-brand dead for like five years or something like that?) is next month. How exactly is that supposed to go smoothly?
GSL will also be...interesting. Can't imagine it will even be remotely a full-offline season.

18 players also seems icky, considering they might go with the same format as last year, which I would say was the biggest point of criticism about the event itself?


It's not IEM Dallas. That's a CS event by EFG that happens to be held at DH Dallas, but that doesn't make every esportS event there an IEM. Since you're being weirdly pedantic, the official branding on the Dreamhack website is "Road to EWC." Or just stop being pedantic and call it Dreamhack [location] like people have since the WCS days.




Just for clarification: I wasn't pedantic at you guys, it just seemed like another "oh really EWC?"-moment. And to be fair: None of the events listed on Liquipedia are classified as a "Dreamhack" they are all called something different. Didn't know the overall event was still called Dreamhack, since I can't really remember the name coming up in any of the recent ESL Masters in SC2 either.

Anyway, the bigger concern for me is just the timeframe, though I am positively surprised that we will get a "mini-circuit", I would have never suspected that.
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
CicadaSC
Profile Joined January 2018
United States1533 Posts
April 17 2025 22:19 GMT
#11
I am grateful for all these events but I would like confirmation of future events as well otherwise I will always worry it's the last year of SC2.
Remember that we all come from a place of passion!!
JJH777
Profile Joined January 2011
United States4392 Posts
April 18 2025 00:18 GMT
#12
On April 18 2025 01:44 tigera6 wrote:
GSL is just a glorified "KR regional" for ESL DH Master, dont have the same privilige nor prize money it used to have. Btw, are they still collecting Patreon money all these time?


They have been collecting money since the last season yes, even now the patreon is still at $4200 per month. In January it was still over 6,000. Plus they even had money leftover before the end of the last season. If you estimate the total amount they received and subtract the prize pool of both GSL seasons last year it seems like this new season should have a very large prize pool. 6 figures easily. Though some of that would be lost to patreon fees and if they take any for production costs instead of prize pool.
lestye
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4149 Posts
April 18 2025 04:50 GMT
#13
I was confused for a second because I thought this was from ESWC, which apparently has been dead since 2017.

Regardless, glad Starcraft got some good news for a change.
"You guys are just edgelords. Embrace your inner weeb desu" -Zergneedsfood
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10323 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-04-18 08:22:38
April 18 2025 08:21 GMT
#14
HOLY SHIT!!! This is so sick!! I forgot that no ESL circuit doesn't mean no more dreamhacks. Having one in the US will give me a chance to see some SC2 action live finally.
AND ALSO I WILL DEFINITELY GO TO THE GSL!!! Please take all our money!!!
Grats to Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora as well!!

Only thing is, it feels too soon for an EWC. Kinda hard to believe so many months passed during this 'off-season' already, and the EWC will be happening a couple months sooner than last year as well...

I guess a reduced price pool to $700k is totally fair - not even as a SC2 downsizing thing, but just because this year isn't nearly as developed as usual in terms of events and time spent training and competing for the EWC.
$700k is still amazing, so I'm glad!

I wonder/hope that if EWC is in July this year, it's because they plan to keep it around July from here on, and the next year (if there is one) will give more of a proper full year.
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Xamo
Profile Joined April 2012
Spain877 Posts
April 18 2025 10:24 GMT
#15
I am surprised about the price pool, it looks amazing. I expected a much larger downsizing.
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland24877 Posts
April 18 2025 13:36 GMT
#16
Why couldn’t this have been organised and settled months ago?
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Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1124 Posts
April 18 2025 14:24 GMT
#17
On April 18 2025 13:50 lestye wrote:
I was confused for a second because I thought this was from ESWC, which apparently has been dead since 2017.

Regardless, glad Starcraft got some good news for a change.


This "is" ESWC. The Saudis bought the naming rights from the Webedia Group and just changed the acronym. Last year they still borrowed ESWC-History for their website and presented the thing as a continuation, though I think they stopped doing that?
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
lestye
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4149 Posts
April 18 2025 15:19 GMT
#18
On April 18 2025 23:24 Balnazza wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 18 2025 13:50 lestye wrote:
I was confused for a second because I thought this was from ESWC, which apparently has been dead since 2017.

Regardless, glad Starcraft got some good news for a change.


This "is" ESWC. The Saudis bought the naming rights from the Webedia Group and just changed the acronym. Last year they still borrowed ESWC-History for their website and presented the thing as a continuation, though I think they stopped doing that?

Oh! Wikipedia corroborates this. I went on https://www.eswc.com/eswc-second-decade/ and just saw it ended in 2018.
"You guys are just edgelords. Embrace your inner weeb desu" -Zergneedsfood
Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany6860 Posts
April 18 2025 15:40 GMT
#19
Wow! This is crazy
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M3t4PhYzX
Profile Joined March 2019
Poland4170 Posts
April 18 2025 15:55 GMT
#20
ugh..
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Blitzball04
Profile Joined June 2024
191 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-04-18 17:44:49
April 18 2025 17:40 GMT
#21
Nice EWC keeping SC2 hype alive

Gonna be lots of sc2 content to watch for the next couple months
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33316 Posts
April 19 2025 02:00 GMT
#22
The order of these events is gonna be pretty important.

The most fun situation would be if DreamHack was the final, last-chance event, but I don't think it will work out that way. I feel like the travel situation with the USA, the # of players already qualified, and the format are gonna have a big impact on who decides to show up.
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tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3321 Posts
April 19 2025 03:20 GMT
#23
The order that makes the most sense would be Online Qualifier (Regional then Global) happen last, probably mid to end June.
RandomPlayer
Profile Joined April 2012
Russian Federation389 Posts
April 19 2025 04:42 GMT
#24
We had nothing for 8 months, now we have everything packed within 3 months..
LaughNgamezSOOP
Profile Joined June 2024
53 Posts
April 19 2025 04:49 GMT
#25
On April 19 2025 13:42 RandomPlayer wrote:
We had nothing for 8 months, now we have everything packed within 3 months..


Agreed, we need an EWC 2026 announcement for SC2 and a 3 year deal like other games.
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lJTJPl
Profile Joined December 2020
19 Posts
April 19 2025 04:50 GMT
#26
bruh... this is gnarley... i hope a terran wins...
R4PHA FFZ
Profile Joined April 2025
1 Post
April 19 2025 08:53 GMT
#27
This IS a crazy
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1124 Posts
April 26 2025 14:59 GMT
#28
I just noticed we already know most of the format for EWC and holy crap...they did a proper one!
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
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