World Series of Esports will start with a PUBG tournament on July 14-15.
World Series of Esports will start with a PUBG tournament on July 14-15.
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ESP Gaming’s newest event is the World Showdown of Esports

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The race is on to showcase esports in the glitziest and most exciting style. ESP Gaming hopes to do that with the World Showdown of Esports (WSOE), a tournament series in Las Vegas that starts this weekend with a broadcast of a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) tournament. Inspired by boxing and mixed-martial-arts broadcasts, the tournament will feature fight card-style matches that showcase the best games, players and teams across the globe.

To celebrate the announcement, the WSOE (in partnership with esports organization Auzom) will present a special live event, The PUBG Pan-Continental, broadcast live on Twitch July 14 and July 15 from the PokerGo Studio at Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, with special guests and players from Team Vitality, Team Envy, OpTic Gaming, Tempo Storm and more competing in PUBG. That competition will feature a $100,000 prize pool.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.