It’s a clash of fists on the Tekken World Tour 2024. The top players will battle to be hailed as the King of the World’s Tekken.
Tekken 8 is a raging storm coming into the fighting game scene as they unveiled details on the upcoming Tekken World Tour 2024. Surely, Tekken players across the world are excited for the thrilling matchup action they’ll see in the tournament.
More than just your ordinary competition, the Tekken World Tour 2024 is shrouded in pride as an elite tournament for Tekken 8. In this gathering of the world’s top players, you’ll see an intense showcase of their skills to secure a journey in the World Tour Finals.
It is not like the tournament from the previous years as Tekken World Tour 2024 takes an ambitious route. This year’s tournament will be implementing a revamped format specially on the format, tournament structure, qualifications, and more. It presents new tournament tiers and expanded regional representation to ensure the inclusivity of the event. Now, here’s what you may need to know about the Tekken World Tour 2024.
Format and Tournament Structure
Changes are coming for the Tekken World Tour 2024. To start off, the tournament will only conduct offline competitions. This is contrary to the previous years, where they had both online and in-person events.
The decision to play offline is assumed to ensure a level playing field for players. In addition to this, it was intended to make the tournament more accessible for players who are struggling to travel to attend the global competitive events.
Next off, the structure for the tournament also has significant changes. The tour will feature four distinct tiers of events to complete the tournament’s cast.
- Master+ Tier: This tier has the highest stakes and most ranking points up for grabs among the rest. It serves as the top-level major tournament for this tour. So far, only two Master+ events have been announced, such as the Evolution Championship Series 2024 in July and the Evolution Championship Series: Japan 2024 in April. However, there might still be other competitions to come in the latter half of the year.
- Master Tier: A step lower from the Master+ level, it is the tournaments that can still earn you adequate points to spot higher in the global leaderboard.
- Challenger Tier: It allows a wider pool of players to enter the competition in comparison to the upper tiers in the tournament. Competitions under these tiers serve as entry-level competitive events. Most players here have lower points than Master+.
- Dojo Tier: A more inclusive tournament within Tekken 8. In this tier, competitive events allow anyone to participate and be awarded points based on the number of participants. The Dojo events will still have a bearing on the regional and global leaderboards.
Qualification for the Tekken World Tour Finals
Not only the formats changed, but they also changed the road for qualifications. Players now have two paths to earn qualification for the season-ending Tekken World Tour Finals.
Players may get a ticket to the Tekken World Tour Finals through the global leaderboard. You’ll have to strive harder to earn a spot by being one of the top twenty global players.
However, this leaderboard will depend on their best placements across tiered competitions to qualify directly for the Tekken World Tour Finals. Tough luck, but there’s another option available to take.
Securing the #1 position in your regional tournaments will let you reach the final stage. On the regional route, the ranking will be determined by their Dojo event performance. It will remain a challenge as the tournament’s open for anyone to participate; that’s why you’ll see a larger number of participants. The Tekken World Tour currently has 15 regions that will each get a slot.
These qualification systems aim to create more opportunities for players to reach the heights of the Tekken competitive scene, regardless of whether they excel on the global stage or within their local communities.
Regions and Tournament Schedule
The Tekken World Tour 2024 is indeed taking a route across the world, as it spans 15 regions. This greatly covers a large part of the world, which allows Tekken’s competitive gaming to gain more recognition. These are the 15 distinct regions on the tour:
Asia: Japan, Korea, Pakistan, the Middle East, Central & South Asia, and Southeast Asia
Americas: North America, Central America, and South America
Europe: West Europe, East Europe
Africa: West Africa, South Africa, North & East Africa
Oceania
Aside from the regional tour, the leaderboard tournament also kicked off. Tokyo, Japan, hosted the first Master+ event on April 27–29, 2024. Afterwards, the journey continues in Las Vegas, USA, for the second Master+ tournament from July 19–21, 2024. A challenger event, the Electric Clash 2024, also set off in Ontario, Canada, on April 20, 2024.
Don’t worry, as there are more Master, Challenger, and Dojo events to be announced this year. After all, the game is aiming to present plenty of opportunities for players to rack up their points.
Conclusion
The Tekken World Tour 2024 presents the new era in its competitive scene. Seeking to grow its community, it made changes in the format that are favorable to players, whether they are newcomers or veterans in the scene. With the expanded regional representation, Tekken eSports is hoping to see a wider range of players.
Also, the offline-only format and dual qualification paths are the changes that hope to create a level playing field among the participating players. However, it is also expected to increase the competitiveness of the tournament as it goes on.
With that, Tekken World Tour 2024 is guaranteed to bring an exciting season ahead through the year-long battle for points.
