Any FIFA 17 player can now compete to win a share of $1.3 million prize pool through the Ultimate Team Championship Series mode.
FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) is FIFA’s hugely successful and lucrative online mode that sees users earn and use ‘coins’ to build teams of players to compete against other users’ teams in different formats and tournaments.
Winning FUT tournaments earns you coins and rewards to strengthen your squads with new players and items, but now there’s much more at stake.
“FUT is so popular that we wanted to put in a new way to play and compete,” said FIFA.
“With FUT Champions we can put in a mode with ‘Daily Tournaments’ to let you compete. If you win a ‘Daily tournament’ you get into the ‘Weekend League’.”
In the ‘Weekend League’ players battle for in-game items. The elite players at the top of the monthly leaderboards, based on their results, are invited to one of the six Regional Finals with the goal of attending the FIFA Interactive World Cup (FIWC) and FUT Championship Series.
The winner of the FIWC pockets $20,000 instantly, and the event is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest online gaming tournament.
But that award is just the tip of the iceberg.
The top 32 teams in FUT Champions will take part in the Ultimate Team Championship and compete for a prize pool of $1.3 million where the winning team goes home with cash split amost the 11 players.
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