The 2024 PUBG MOBILE GLOBAL OPEN (hereafter, 2024 PMGO), a world tournament for the smartphone battle royale game PUBG MOBILE, was held from March to April 2024.
Japan's representative REJECT successfully won the championship!
2024 PMGO Held in Sao Paulo, Brazil
The 2024 PMGO, held for the first time this year, is a PUBG MOBILE world tournament with a total prize pool of $500,000.
In the main event, a total of 16 teams, including 7 teams invited from around the world and 9 teams that won through the qualifiers, engaged in heated battles as follows:
- Alpha7 Esports
- BOOM Esports
- Death Wolves
- Dplus KIA
- HFIYS esports
- IHC Esports
- IW NRX
- Nova
- Regnum Carya Bra
- REJECT
- Royals of War
- S2G Esports
- Smoke Gaming
- Team Falcons
- Vampire Esports
- Zebra Master
Japan's Representative REJECT Wins!
Japan's representative REJECT finished the first day in 5th place, and on the second day, they made a comeback from a gap of over 30 points to take the provisional 1st place.
Although the first match on the final day did not go well, they did not let their rhythm be disrupted and steadily accumulated points afterward.
By continuing to consistently achieve high rankings, they finished the tournament with a victory, leading the 2nd place team by 18 points!
This is reportedly the first time a Japanese team has won a world tournament in the shooting game genre.
Congratulations!
ReijiOcO (@reijioco22), one of the team members, also earned the title for the most total kills throughout the tournament.
The result once again demonstrated his skill to the world.
Japanese Domestic League Starts April 13
Although the world tournament has just ended, the Japanese domestic league PUBG MOBILE OPEN TOURNAMENT 2024 Phase1 will open immediately on Saturday, April 13, 2024.
Of course, the world champions REJECT are also scheduled to participate.
Due to REJECT's victory, Japan has acquired an additional seed for the 2024 PUBG MOBILE World Cup scheduled for July 2024, which will surely draw even more attention.
The tournament can be viewed on the PUBG MOBILE JAPAN LEAGUE OFFICIAL YouTube channel.
