The Wild Rift Icons Global Championship 2022 will take place in Europe

The news came through the Instagram account of WCK, Korea’s League of Legends Wild Rift league. the Wild Rift Icons Global Championship 2022the first-ever world championship on the game, will take place in Europe.

The First Wild Rift World Championship

It’s official. As we celebrate the 2 years of the game at the end of the year, League of Legends: Wild Rift will finally be entitled to its first world championship. And good news for Europeans, since it is Madrid, in Spain, which the players will compete against. the Wild Rift Icons Global Championship 2022 will take place from June 14 to July 8, 2022.

However, this is not the first esports event organized by Riot Games on Wild Rift. Named HorizonCupa previous competition in Singapore allowed players to share a cash prize of $500,000.

The teams qualified for the Wild Rift Icons Global Championship 2022

At this time, we do not yet know the format that the first Wild Rift World Championship. On the other hand, we know that 24 teams will participate.

Among the qualified teams, 6 of them will automatically qualify. The other 16 teams will have to go through a phase of play in for reach the final stage. Regarding the number of participants, not all regions of the world are in the same boat, as on LoL, as can be seen in this image.

Asian leagues will be in the majority with a total of 13 teams. For its part, North America will send only two challengers. As for Europe, as with the league of Latin America and Brazil, we will have three teams vying to become winners of the Wild Rift Icons Global Championship 2022 and become the first League of Legends: Wild Rift World Champions.

To stay on topic, we recently told you about a partnership between Wild Rift and Coca-Cola to create a major mobile esports scene.