Electronic Sports World Cup
The French-born international gaming championship, held from 2003.
The Esports World Convention (ESWC; known as the Electronic Sports World Cup until early 2016) was an international professional gaming championship. Every year, winners of national qualifier events around the world earned the right to represent their country in the ESWC Finals.
Quick Facts
- Formerly
- LAN Arena (before 2003); Electronic Sports World Cup (2003–2016)
- Sport
- Esports
- Game
- Call of Duty; Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Founded
- 2003
- Country
- France
- Continent
- Europe
- Folded
- 2018
- Replaced
- Esports World Cup (ESWC brand acquired in 2023)
Facts from the source article.
Background
The ESWC was originally created by a French company, Ligarena, that had previously hosted smaller local area network (LAN) events in France under the name of LAN Arena. In 2003, Ligarena decided to do something on a larger scale and the ESWC was born. In 2005, Ligarena became Games-Services.
In 2009, ESWC was bought by another French company, Games-Solution, which became the owner of the brand.
In 2012, Oxent, an agency specialising in electronic sports, acquired the ESWC.
The grand finals and masters of ESWC have had a total prize purse of €1,721,000 between 2003 and 2010.
In October 2023, the ESWC brand was acquired by the Esports World Cup Foundation.
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