WePlay spoke in detail about how the second season of the Academy League will take place. Youth teams from the same eight e-sports organizations as in the first will take part in it. The prize fund will be $100,000, and the final stage at which it will be played will take place in November in Kyiv.
At the same time, the format of the first part of the tournament will change compared to last season. Eight teams will be divided into two groups. The two participants who take leading positions at the end of the group stage will advance directly to the final stage. Those who find themselves in second and third places will be included in the “last chance” group, where they will compete for two more tickets to the next stage of the tournament.
The group stage will take place from September 28 to October 9 in an online format. The four teams that will advance to the finals will perform at the WePlay Esports Arena in Kyiv on November 12 - 14.
The first season of the Academy League took place in July-August 2021. Then mouz NXT took first place, Young Ninjas took second, and the last places in the four finalists were taken by BIG Academy and fnatic Rising. Several young talented players were able to prove themselves at these competitions, such as Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov from NAVI Junior or Yulian “regali” Harjau from fnatic Rising.
