NICKMERCS has at all times been on the high of the Apex neighborhood, always supporting the informal and aggressive scene with a number of tournaments that highlighted alternate methods to play Apex, from requiring Loba in each composition throughout her season 5 debut to focusing his most up-to-date MFAM Gauntlet throughout Workforce Deathmatch in season 16.
Now, NICKMERCS has introduced his greatest Apex event but: The Gauntlet League, a three-week solo-queue invitational league that may characteristic the very best gamers in North America from Aug. 7 to twenty-eight. A $50,000 whole prize pool is about for the occasion, with payouts each week for the very best performers and on the Beta Season Playoffs, the place gamers will compete for a lower of $35,000.
Matches for The Gauntlet League will run Monday to Friday from 3pm CT to 8pm CT every week, with no restriction on gamers streaming their POVs throughout any level of the event.
Individuals within the league will begin with 1,000 factors and can achieve or lose factors based mostly on their staff’s placement, eliminations, match entry charges, and inactivity penalties. The highest 20 gamers within the factors leaderboard every week with obtain a share of the weekly $5,000 prize pool, with the highest 60 gamers on the finish of the common season qualifying for the $35,000 playoffs, the place finals groups shall be drafted dwell on NICKMERCS’ Twitch channel.
Presently, The Gauntlet League solely operates in North America on a closed-invite foundation, with eligibility based mostly on three necessities. Any contributors will need to have present or prior expertise within the ALGS Professional League, positioned within the high 20 in any Challengers Circuit Cut up, or confirmed themselves with the Apex Predator rank in seasons 15, 16, or 17. Gamers who meet one in all these three necessities and haven’t been immediately invited can apply on the official website to compete in The Gauntlet League.
Regardless of the beta season solely accepting NA gamers, The Gauntlet League might feature a select number of invited EMEA players to gauge curiosity in a possible enlargement into EMEA for the next seasons.
This isn’t the primary time that Apex has seen a solo-queue league format. Realm, a matchmaking service, famously started its own league back in March, with comparable guidelines and a prize pool format that additionally featured weekly winners and an end-of-season playoff event. However regardless of plans for a staff queue and a champions league, Realm by no means adopted up on any of its enlargement plans, leaving many high gamers disenchanted with the potential the solo queue league introduced.
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NICKMERCS’ Gauntlet League fills within the solo queue hole left by Realm and will simply turn out to be Apex’s hottest event following the ALGS. Followers can tune in for the inaugural matches on Aug. 7 at 3pm CT, the place NICKMERCS shall be streaming his POV on Twitch.
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