Esports had a tremendous year in 2023, setting viewership records and seeing new regions prosper and grow. 2024 is here and event organisers are hard at work preparing for some of the major events of the year, and here at Esports Charts, we have collated some of the upcoming major events for the year.
January
League of Legends regional leagues. The world of esports for League of Legends kicks off in mid-January across the globe. EMEA region starts us off with the beginning of LEC Winter 2024 scheduled for January 13, and LCK Spring 2024 starts on the 17. The remainder of the tournament pages for regional leagues can be found in the upcoming tournaments section of our site.
ALGS Regional Split 1 Pro League. The ALGS Pro League starts on January 21 for the four major regions of the discipline: North America, EMEA, APAC North, and APAC South. The best teams of these regions will qualify for the international Split 1 Playoffs event, which has not had dates or a venue confirmed yet, although a $1,000,000 prize pool is confirmed.
IEM Katowice 2024. A premiere CS:GO event returns in 2024 for its first CS2 tournament. The event takes place from January 31 until February 11. The world’s best teams such as Team Vitality, FaZe Clan, and NaVi will all compete for a chance at the $1,000,000 prize pool.
Call of Duty League 2024 Major I. Call of Duty League 2024 starts off the year with the Major I tournament, scheduled for Jan 25 – 28. The event sees all 12 franchised CDL teams compete in Boston for an event created in collaboration with the Boston Breach team.
Rocket League Championship Series 2024. Although details surrounding the RLCS 2024 are sparse at the moment, what is confirmed is that esports series returns in late January. BLAST Esports will be taking over the organisation of the league, just as they are with the FNCS.
February
DreamLeague Season 22. Season 2 of the ESL Pro Tour for Dota 2 continues with its first event of 2024. The event will take place from February 25 until March 10 and has $1,000,000 up for grabs.
Six Invitational 2024. The most prestigious Rainbow Six Siege event of the year comes to Brazil for the first time starting on February 13. With a $3,000,000 prize pool and 20 of the best teams from around the globe, the year is starting off strong for Rainbow Six.
MPL Spring. Although no exact dates are confirmed, the MPL will likely continue in February with Season 13 of its biggest regions, Indonesia and the Philippines. Other regions, Singapore, MENA, Malaysia, Brazil, Myanmar, and many others, also launch into their Spring seasons around the same time, contributing to the 2000+ matches planned in 2024 for ML:BB esports.
March
PGL Copenhagen 2024 Major. The first Counter-Strike 2 Major kicks off in Copenhagen, running from March 17 until March 31. The $1.25M event will invite the best teams from around the world, according to Valve’s Regional Standings, and welcome in a new era of Counter-Strike esports. Throughout February and March, four Regional Major Ranking tournaments will be held to decide the attending teams: two in Europe, and one each for America and Asia-Pacific.
VCT 2024: Masters Madrid. The first major VCT event of 2024 takes place in Madrid, from March 8 to March 24. Teams qualify for the event through the KICK-OFF regional events in February, which will also take place in China, the new official region of the Valorant Champions Tour.
CDL Major II. The CDL season continues in March with a LAN tournament hosted in collaboration with the Miami Heretics. The event will run from March 21 to March 24, once again featuring the franchised teams of the league.
FFWS SEA Spring. A brand new Free Fire World Series event hosted by Garena is beginning on March 22 and running until May 26. The new league is a unified professional league for the top teams of Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia.
PUBG Mobile Global Open 2024. The first international LAN event of the PUBG Mobile 2024 competitive season takes place in Brazil. The tournament will run from early March into early April and has $500K to offer competing teams from around the globe.
April
ESL One Birgminham 2024. The first ESL One Dota 2 tournament of the year starts on April 22, and runs until April 28, in Birmingham, England. 12 teams from the ESL Pro Tour leaderboards and regional qualifiers will compete at the event for a $1M prize pool.
IEM China 2024. The first IEM Counter-Strike event in China for many years, the tournament series returns to the region the same that Valve is planning to host a Major in the region. The event will run from April 8 to 14.
ESL Pro League Season 19. The 19th season of ESL’s prestigious Pro League returns to Counter-Strike from April 23 onwards. The winners of this league will qualify directly for IEM Cologne 2024, alongside the winners of IEM China 2024 and IEM Katowice 2024.
May
Mid-Season Invitational 2024. MSI returns to League of Legends with a new system in place for Worlds qualification. The winner of the event will earn a direct qualification to Worlds, as well as an additional slot for their region.Next best performing region at the event will also earn an additional slot. The event takes place between May 1-19 in Chengdu, China.
VCT 2024: Masters Shanghai. The Valorant competitive season continues with another international tournament in May, this event being the first VCT tournament to be hosted in China. The Shanghainese Masters event coincides with the first year of the VCT hosting a regional league in China.
DreamLeague Season 23. The online DreamLeague event continues the ESL Pro Tour and proceeds two major Dota 2 events as part of the EPT which are yet to have dates and locations officially announced.
CDL Major III. CDL reaches its third of fourth Major in May, and the event is hosted in collaboration with the Toronto Ultra team. The event is the only CDL Major of the year to take place outside the USA.
June
Snapdragon PRO Series. The Snapdragon PRO Series events hosted by ESL are some of the largest third-party events in the ML:BB competitive scene, and two of these Snapdragon events were announced as part of the 2024 esports roadmap for ML:BB. Details are still not fully fleshed out, but early Summer will bring the first of the two Snapdragon Pro Series events this year.
CDL Major IV. The final CDL Major for the year will be hosted alongside the Carolina Royal Ravents in Charlotte, North Carolina. After this event, the CDL 2024 Championship will take place, although there is no official information released for the event yet. Rumours are circulating the CDL scene that the event will take place in Texas, although this is not confirmed.
July
Mid Season Tournament 2024. A Mid Season Tournament will be once again hosted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The official name of the tournament has not yet been announced, but it is a continuation of the PUBG Mobile World Invitational, as it was called in the last two years. An event is confirmed to have a prize pool of $3M, an increase of $1M compared to the previous two years, and fits into the middle of the new PUBG Mobile competitive season.
August
VCT 2024: Champions. Although not much information has been released concerning the ultimate Valorant Champions 2024 event, what is confirmed so far is that the tournament will ake place in August. Ther crowning event of the season caps off the year of Valorant esports and will decide a new world championship team for the discipline.
IEM Cologne 2024. The cathedral of Counter-Strike returns for its first CS2 event in August. The LANXESS arena is a well-loved Counter-Strike venue and fans always show up in droves for this historic tournament series.
September
Worlds 2024. At Worlds 2023, it was announced that the 2024 iteration of the world championship would return to Europe, with the finals taking place in London, England. Few details are available so far for the most popular event series in esports, but the dates are set for September 25 – November 2. It will move from Berlin for the Swiss Stage and Play-Ins, to Paris for the Playoffs, and finally to London for the Finals.
ESL Pro League Season 20. The second and final ESL Pro League Counter-Strike event of 2024 begins in September and concludes later the same month. The Maltese event offers competitors a large prize pool, and the ultimate winner qualifies directly for the IEM Katowice 2024 event.
October
Snapdragon PRO Series. The second Snapdragon PRO Series ML:BB event takes place in October later in the year. Among the various regional official leagues, the Snapdragon event will be one of the last chances for teams to hone their gameplay before the M6 World Championship.
DreamLeague Season 24. ESL continues to support the Dota 2 scene with high quality third-party events for teams to compete in. Season 24 of DreamLeague will be the penultimate ESL Pro Tour event of the year and the first event of EPT season 3, leading into the ESL One Asia event at the end of the year.
November
FFWS Global Finals 2024. The ultimate tournament of the 2024 roadmap for Free Fire starts in November. The FFWS Global Finals will close out the year and decide the best teams of the year. Details are sparse for this event at the moment, but with Free Fire’s return to India on the horizon this could be a significant year for the esports discipline.
PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2024. The final event of another mobile gaming discipline, the PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2024 will be hosted in the UK. The $3M event kicks off in November and concludes in December, wrapping the year of the esports discipline up.
BLAST Premier: World Final 2024. 2024 will mark the third year that the World Final of BLAST Premier’s third-party Counter-Strike events will return to Abu Dhabi. The BLAST events are some of the most popular third-party events hosted in Counter-Strike, and with BLAST Esports expanding into so many other esports disciplines, 2024 will be a year to keep an eye on the tournament organiser.
December
M6 World Championship. The yearly world championship event for ML:BB is to take place in Malaysia, making it the second world championship to be hosted there after the M1 World Championship. Mobile gaming is a growing sector and ML:BB is leading the charge in online viewership for esports events; the M6 may become one of the most watched mobile gaming events ever.
Perfect World Shangai Major 2024. Valve is bringing its first Counter-Strike Major event to Shanghai in December of the year. The $1.25M tournament is organised by Perfect World, who also helped publish the Counter-Strike titles in China, and is an attempt from Valve to solidify themselves within the Chinese esports market.
ESL One Asia. Dota 2’s EPT in 2024 concludes with a mysterious ESL One Asia event. All that is known is that the event will take place in December and will be the first major international LAN event of the EPT Season 3. Details are still sparse, but keep an eye out for this event and EPT’s continued growth for Season 3.
Events confirmed but without set dates
FFWS Fall. A mid-season event is confirmed for the Free Fire World Series. Garena announced the tournament alongside the other Free Fire events to be held in 2024, but no details or dates are available for the event, except it will take place in the Fall.
HCS 2024. Fans of Halo can rejoice, the Halo Championship Series has been confirmed to return in 2024 and end with a $1M world championship event to cap off the season. Nothing is announced yet, but the esports discipline is still on.
The International 13. This year’s The International 2024 event for Dota 2 will be the first time since 2017 that the event is not tied to the Dota Pro Circuit, which Valve recently cancelled. The event details will be released towards the middle of this year, although the tournament will likely take place in Autumn and there are rumours that the tournament will be held in Seattle, Washington.
Riyadh Masters 2024. Riyadh Masters 2023 became the first third-party Dota 2 tournament to rival The International in terms of prize pool. The Riyadh event had over $15.1M for teams to win in 2023, and the 2024 event is rumoured to be even more extravagant. In late 2023, the professional scene of Dota 2 came alive with talk of Riyadh Masters 2024 hosting a $45M prize pool, solely for the Dota 2 event. Reports of this figure are yet unconfirmed, but this would drive the Riyadh Masters 2024 event to the level of the entire Gamers8 2023 festival.
Mid Season Cup
The Mid Season Cup is a rebranding of the Southeast Asia Cup which takes place for ML:BB. The event is one of the most prestigious mid-season events in the discipline, and it’s being renovated for 2024. Although details are not yet available, it has been confirmed that the Mid Season Cup will take place outside of Southeast Asia.
Overwatch Esports. Details for next year’s Overwatch League are yet to be made clear. The franchised league is undergoing troubles with reports of the organisers offering teams buy-outs to exit the league, and it will have to be seen what form the OWL takes in 2024.
Esports World Cup 2024. The Esports World Cup is the newest esports aspiration coming out of Saudi Arabia. The event will replace the Gamers8 festival and host a wild Summer of various gaming events. Former ESL staff are being brought in to help organise the event, and combined with Gamers8 massive $45M in prize pools last year, the Esports World Cup 2024 may be the supreme destination for esports events this year.
FNCS 2024. The roadmap for this year of Fortnite esports is yet to be made publicly available, however, it has been announced that BLAST Esports will take over the organisation and running of the FNCS. BLAST is also involved with Counter-Strike and is making a move into the RLCS at the same time, promising a year of exciting opportunities for BLAST to wow esports fans with their events.