FIFA Interactive World Cup

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The FIFA Interactive World Cup (FIWC) is an annual video game tournament organized by FIFA and its partner EA Sports . The virtual soccer world cup enables millions of soccer fans around the world to compete for the title of the best FIFA player . The FIWC holds the Guinness World Record as the largest online video game tournament in the world.

Mosaad Aldossary from Saudi Arabia is the reigning champion after triumphing in the 2018 FIWC Grand Final in London . Aldossary won $ 250,000 in prize money and a trip to The Best FIFA Football Awards 2018.

history

The first FIWC took place in Switzerland in 2004 and the tournament has grown significantly over the years. In 2010 the FIWC first appeared in the Guinness World Records - in 2013 the current record of 2.5 million participants was set.

Last season

On October 1, 2015, the FIWC 16 and thus the twelfth edition of the tournament started. For the first time in the history of the competition, participants played against each other on both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 . With the integration of the new consoles, the number of participants increased significantly compared to previous years when the FIWC could only be played on the PlayStation 3 . 2.3 million players registered for the qualification for the Grand Final in New York City . On March 22, 2016, the Dane Mohamad Al-Bacha won the title at the Apollo Theater . He defeated England's Sean Allen by two late goals in a dramatic final.

Results

year date host winner finalist Result
2004 19. December SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich BrazilBrazil Thiago Carrico de Azevedo SerbiaSerbia Matija Biljeskovic 2-1
2005 19. December EnglandEngland London EnglandEngland Chris "ChrisyB" Bullard HungaryHungary Gabor Mokos 5-2
2006 9th of December NetherlandsNetherlands Amsterdam NetherlandsNetherlands Andries "Driesje" Smit AustriaAustria Wolfgang Meier 6-4
2008 May 24th GermanyGermany Berlin SpainSpain Alfonso "Herzex" Ramos United StatesUnited States Michael Ribeiro 3-1
2009 2.May SpainSpain Barcelona FranceFrance Bruce "The Machine" Grannec MexicoMexico Ruben Morales Zerecero 3-1
2010 1st of May SpainSpain Barcelona United StatesUnited States Nenad Stojkovic GermanyGermany Ayhan Altundag 2-1
2011 June 7-9 United StatesUnited States los Angeles PortugalPortugal Francisco "Quinzas" Cruz ColombiaColombia Javier Muñoz 4-1
2012 21-23 May United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Dubai SpainSpain Alfonso "Herzex" Ramos FranceFrance Bruce "The Machine" Grannec 1-0
2013 6-8 May SpainSpain Madrid FranceFrance Bruce "The Machine" Grannec MexicoMexico Andrei Torres Vivero 1-0
2014 2-3 July BrazilBrazil Rio de Janeiro DenmarkDenmark August "Agge" Rosenmeier EnglandEngland David "Davebtw" Bytheway 3-1
2015 17th-19th May GermanyGermany Munich Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Abdulaziz "Mr D0ne" Alshehri FranceFrance Julien Dassonville 3-0
2016 20.-22. March United StatesUnited States New York City DenmarkDenmark Mohamad "Bacha" Al-Bacha EnglandEngland Sean "Dragonn" Allen 5-5 (win by away goals)
2017 16.-18. August EnglandEngland London EnglandEngland Spencer "Gorilla" Ealing GermanyGermany Kai "Deto" Wollin 7-3
2018 2-4 August EnglandEngland London Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Mosaad "Msdossary" Aldossary BelgiumBelgium Stefano Pinna 4-0
2019 2-4 August EnglandEngland London GermanyGermany Mohammed "MoAuba" Harkous Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Mosaad "Msdossary" Aldossary 4-3

Medal table

Pl country gold silver
1 FranceFrance France 2 2
EnglandEngland England 2 2
3 Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 2 1
4th SpainSpain Spain 2 0
DenmarkDenmark Denmark 2 0
6th GermanyGermany Germany 1 2
7th United StatesUnited States United States 1 1
8th BrazilBrazil Brazil 1 0
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 1 0
PortugalPortugal Portugal 1 0
11 MexicoMexico Mexico 0 2
12 ColombiaColombia Colombia 0 1
HungaryHungary Hungary 0 1
AustriaAustria Austria 0 1
SerbiaSerbia Serbia 0 1
BelgiumBelgium Belgium 0 1

Most successful participant

Pl country gold silver
1 FranceFrance Bruce "The Machine" Grannec 2 1
2 SpainSpain Alfonso "Herzex" Ramos 2 0
3 Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Mosaad "Msdossary" Aldossary 1 1

format

Online qualification

Online qualification of the FIWC via PlayStation - and Xbox accessible network and can use the latest version of the game FIFA by EA Sports on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 to be played. The qualification goes over several seasons, each of which lasts one month. Each season starts at 9:00 a.m. ( GMT ) on the first day of the month and ends at 8:59 a.m. (GMT) on the first day of the following month. The points are automatically deleted before the start of a new season. Since the FIWC 15, participants can only play a maximum of 90 games per season. With the FIWC 16, the duration of the qualification has been reduced from six seasons to just three - and with it the mode: The participants are now divided into four regions:

  1. Europe
  2. North and Central America and the Caribbean
  3. South America
  4. Africa , Asia and Oceania

Five players per console qualify each season: the four winners from each region and the runner-up from Europe.

Live tournaments

In addition to online qualification, players also have the chance to qualify for the Grand Final via a live tournament. In recent years these have been held in the host country of the Grand Finals as well as in various major cities in Europe.

Grand Final

In the final of the FIWC, 32 participants play for the title. The reigning champion has already been set. The players are divided into eight groups, the best 16 advance to the round of 16. The group stage as well as the eighth, quarter and semi-finals will only be played on one of the two consoles - the final will be decided in a two-way leg, with both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 being used.

The Grand Final is a multi-day event in which the draw and the competition are divided into a total of three days. The semi-finals and the final will be played in a big live show, with well-known commentators and famous guests from the real world of football.

World Ranking

In 2016, the FIFA Interactive World Cup World Ranking was introduced to classify the players in the final based on their previous results. The ranking takes into account both the results from the qualification and the successes in previous FIWC finals.

Virtual and real soccer

As an official FIFA tournament, the FIWC is closely linked to the real world of football. Most of the participants are interested in what is happening on the virtual lawn as well as in the real stadiums, and quite a few of them even play in football clubs themselves, such as FIWC 14 winner August Rosenmeier from Denmark . In the past, greats of world football were regularly seen at FIWC tournaments - including Ronaldo , Frank Lampard and David Villa . The FIWC winner will also meet the stars at The Best FIFA Football Awards.

The FIWC venues also often form a bridge to real football, as happened at FIWC 14 when the Grand Final took place in Rio de Janeiro - during the FIFA World Cup in Brazil . At that time, the participants were even allowed to watch the quarter-final match between France and Germany in the stadium.

Prize money

The FIWC winner will receive US $ 250,000 in prize money as well as a ticket to the FIFA Ballon d'Or in Zurich , where he will meet the greats of world football. Abdulaziz Alshehri, for example, the winner of FIWC 15, shook the hands of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi , among others .

The loser of the final will receive $ 50,000 in prize money.

transmission

FIWC 15 winner Abdulaziz Alshehri, 2018

The FIWC Grand Final will be streamed live on YouTube and Twitch . The FIWC 16 final was also televised for the first time. The show was shown in more than 100 countries, with Fox Sports 1 broadcasting live in the host country USA. As in previous years, the show in the Apollo Theater was hosted by Kay Murray. Former US footballer Alexi Lalas analyzed the events together with gaming expert Spencer Carmichael-Brown (Spencer FC). Leigh Smith and John Strong commented on the games. The trophy was presented by the former captain of the Spanish national team, David Villa .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Guinness World Records: Watch live: Gamers battle out to win at record-breaking FIFA Interactive World Cup . Guinnessworldrecords.com. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  2. 'Msdossary' new FIFA eWorld Cup Champion . In: FIFA.com . Retrieved September 23, 2018.
  3. Guinness World Records: Watch live: Gamers battle out to win at record-breaking FIFA Interactive World Cup . Guinnessworldrecords.com. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
  4. The FIWC 2016 ranking explained ' ( English ) FIFA. Archived from the original on February 17, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2019.