PUBG Invitational S announced for 2021 as an eight-week (!) event

2020's scheduled PUBG Global Series was for obvious reasons cancelled, and replaced with the PUBG Continental Series (four online tournaments across North America, Europe, Asia, and Asia-Pacific.) The PCS concludes this weekend, after which all eyes turn to 2021.

Partly this is because of the safety measures around the tournament.

"[PUBG Corporation has] built two weeks of quarantine time into team schedules immediately after they arrive and we’ll be providing various services to help keep everyone comfortable during their isolation. Furthermore, we’ll be following all government guidelines and safety precautions while enacting our own strengthened safety measures wherever possible."

The tournament will feature 32 teams from around the world competing for a total $3.5 million prize pool. The schedule is not yet available but the tournament essentially works through weekday matches leading into weekend playoffs, the latter being where the money is earned, and the team with the most cash at the end declared the winners. Here's the event's site.

While it's great to see the determination here to do something big on the other side of this pandemic, I have to admit some surprise at the eight-week timeframe. I like PUBG and can't imagine following this in any kind of dedicated manner, but perhaps the point is more an ongoing jamboree to dip in and out of.

Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."