WORLD SERIES OF WARZONE™ 2024

The greatest Call of Duty® Warzone™ competition on the p-LAN-et returns in 2024, featuring more matches and a Global Final format designed to ratchet up the intensity for the $1M prize pool.

Format and Schedule

Based on feedback from the community and WSOW competitors, this year’s competition will feature:

• New Global Final format
• Top heavy prize pool
• More matches for qualification
• Battle Royale competitive settings

We are very excited to announce this year’s program. The competition starts on May 24th for the NA and EMEA regions with the In-Game Open Online Qualifier. So grab your trio and prepare to drop into Urkizstan for the 3-day open competition. The playlist will involve a twist on the Battle Royale trios format with competitive settings that closely mirror those found in Ranked Resurgence (see end for full list of settings).

Once again, a single global competition window for the in-game open will be from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM PT (4:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC) on May 24 - 26. Your 10 best scores when playing with your FACEIT-registered trio will count toward your team’s score. We will once again use traditional WSOW scoring, placement multipliers on eliminations (see below for breakdown). After the in-game open qualification period ends, the top 80 squads from the two regions will advance to groups.

Expansion Regions Return

Taking into account demand from last year, we’ve made updates to our expansion regions. MEA will now be wrapped into Europe as EMEA, while ANZ and Asia will combine into one region, APAC. In Central and Latin America, we will have two regions, LATAM North (including Mexico) and LATAM South (Including Brazil).

Expansion regions will have open sign-ups, also on FACEIT. Sign-ups will close on June 13th and up to 160 trios will compete in 3 rounds of custom lobby matchups. If needed, registration priority will be given to captains who played in WSOW last year before looking at first come, first serve for full trios that have registered and are in good standing with Activision and FACEIT.

See below for regional eligibility and spots for the Global Final

Extended Online Qualification Pathway

We’ve added group play based on community feedback to have more qualifying matches. Teams will be divided into 4 groups per region based on in-game open performance.

Group play is scheduled to take place over two weeks, with each group playing other groups once in a 5-drop matchup. Top performance will be based on total points accumulated during the 15 group play drops. The top 40 teams from group play will play each other in the Upper Bracket, where the bottom 40 teams from group play will play each other in Round 1 of the Lower Bracket.

In the Upper Bracket the top 20 teams will advance to the Qualifier Finals. Teams who don’t advance to the Qualifier Finals will drop into Round 2 of the Lower Bracket, playing the top 20 teams from Round 1 of the Lower Bracket. The 20 teams who finish last in Round 1 of the Lower Bracket will be eliminated from the competition. In Round 2 of the Lower Bracket, 20 teams will advance to the Qualifier Finals, while 12 teams who don’t advance will go to the Last Chance Qualifier (bottom 8 teams are eliminated from competition).

The Qualifier Finals will see the top 12 teams go on to the Global Final. While the bottom 28 will go to the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ). The LCQ will be the last shot for these teams from NA and EMEA to make it to the Global Final. To do so competitors will play 5 maps of traditional scoring, with 4 teams advancing. For the 6th map, we will bring back the Wildcard Map - let chaos ensue for the final spot in the Global Final.