‘Catch the Worlds Cup’ Collection of 3 types of ‘e-sports competitions
Gravity, a global gaming company, will host 'ROS (Ragnarok Online Stars) 2023', a global e-sports competition for the PC online MMORPG 'Ragnarok Online', on October 7th at 10 am (Indonesian time).
'ROS 2023' is a global e-sports competition of Ragnarok Online, which boasts global recognition, and is held 10 years after 'RWC 2013 (Ragnarok World Championship)'. This competition will be held on October 7th in Gandaria City, Jakarta, Indonesia.
In this competition, Ragnarok Online representatives from a total of six regions, including Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia, gather in one place and compete fiercely on behalf of each region.
This tournament, with a total prize money of $50,000, will be held as a double-elimination tournament in which players are eliminated if they lose twice. The group preliminaries and finals will be broadcast live on Gravity's official YouTube channel.
Detailed information about Ragnarok Online ROS 2023 can be found on the ROS 2023 official page and the Gravity headquarters and overseas branch YouTube channels.
The live broadcast will be held on YouTube, Twitch, and the official Afreeca TV League channels as well as ‘Naver Game e-Sports.’ The total prize money for this competition is 205 million won, and the players are expected to show off their excellent driving skills honed in the pre-season and show even fiercer competition for rankings.
In the team match, 'KWANGDONG FREECS' and 'Liiv SANDBOX', which showed good performances in the pre-season, will participate without any roster changes. There is also a lot of interest in the performance of the new professional team 'MIRAEN SEJONG' of '2023 KDL', which is a team of 'Emperor' HoJun (Moon Ho-Jun) and 'Royal Roader' Hero (Kim Da-won). In the case of the individual match, SUIT (Lee Yong-hyun), the winner of the individual match in the amateur competition, appeared as a new face in Group C, which contained many traditional powerhouses such as Cool (Jae-hyuk Lee) and SPEAR (Chang-hyeon Yoo), attracting attention.
The opening match begins with a team quarterfinal match between 'KWANGDONG FREECS' and 'Liiv SANDBOX', who competed in two consecutive pre-season finals. In addition, two quarterfinal matches will be held between 'FINALE e-sports' and 'Seongnam ROX', which are made up of new players. The individual competition begins with eight players, including NEAL (Liu Chang-heng) and World (Noh Jun-hyun), assigned to Group A of the round of 32.
In addition, for each broadcast, 10 notable online cheerpool publishers are selected and given 10,000 won of 'Nexon Cash' and 20 'boosters' as a gift, and goods are provided according to the ranking of 'booster' contribution for each participating team. In addition, after the end of the team game, MVP player voting will be conducted and the 'Fan Race MVP Player Award (prize prize of 500,000 won)' will be awarded to the player who was selected as MVP the most during the season.