Esports Nations Cup will feature competitions based on national representation in esports

The Esports World Cup Foundation is announcing the Esports Nations Cup (ENC), a new flagship competition built around national representation in esports.

At the New Global Sport Conference, the foundation said the ENC will be the first credible, recurring global event where the world’s best players represent their countries, not their clubs, across the most popular and competitive esports titles. The first event will be in November

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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.