Five things we need to know about a FICWC

The large day is quick approaching. On Saturday, 19 veteran football clubs will line adult with their champion gamers in London for a initial FIFA Interactive Club World Cup. FIFA.com tells we 5 things we need to know about this ground-breaking event.

The stakes
The contest is a final subordinate eventuality on a highway to a FIWC 2017 Grand Final, to be reason in a British collateral between 15 and 18 August. It outlines a finish of a prolonged foe that began in Paris on 4 February, with a first Regional Final, and that continued in Sydney, Miami, Vancouver, Madrid, Berlin, Doha, Munich and Los Angeles. These tournaments saw a margin of millions of online participants whittled down to a best 30 gamers, with a final dual tickets to a FIWC 2017 Grand Final adult for grabs during a FICWC.

This Saturday. London. The #FICWC. pic.twitter.com/3j0rYKv2tj

— FIWC (@FIWC) July 31, 2017

How does it work? 
A sum of 24 players will be holding partial in a competition, separate into dual divisions: Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Most of a clubs will have players competing in only one of a divisions, with a difference of Ajax Amsterdam, AS Roma, Paris Saint-Germain, VfL Wolfsburg and Schalke 04, who will have a actor in each.

Each multiplication will contain dual groups of six, with a tip dual in any organisation advancing to a semi-finals, to be played over dual legs, as will a final. The winners of a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One groups will validate for a FIWC 2017 Grand Final.

Europe leads a way
eSport is enjoying a large boom, that has stirred some-more and some-more veteran football clubs to set adult their possess teams. As a list of teams holding partial in a FICWC shows, Europe is during a forefront, yet a participation of River Plate and New York City in London shows that a materialisation is holding reason right around a world.

Much during stake
One of a 24 participants has no other idea though to go down in story as a really initial FICWC champion. “AFC Ajax Dani” of a Netherlands requisitioned his Grand Final mark during a Season 3 informal final in Munich. Should he strech a Playstation final, a manners state that his foe there will automatically validate for a Grand Final. 

At a heart of a action
The FIFA Interactive Club World Cup will be streamed live and in full at FIFA.com, from 9am to 7.30pm (London time). You can also follow a foe on Facebook and Twitter, where we can twitter regulating a #FICWC hashtag. 

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