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The Arc World Tour 2024 approaches the Finals event. Who made it through the year of tough qualifiers?
Arc System Works is one of the best development studios in the world — for the fighting genre. The company actively supports the competitive community of their games. It has announced the Arc World Tour 2024, the most prestigious competitive series for a few titles. We are happy to summarize all the details on AWT 2024, including the schedule and format of the competition.
AWT 2024 games
The Tour features three of the most recent fighting games developed and published by Arc System Works:
- Guilty Gear Strive
- Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
- Uni2 (Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes)
Competitive format of the Arc World Tour 2024
The league consists of many official and community tournaments. Winning official Qualifiers (Platinum level) means getting a direct invite to the AWT 2024 Finals. Finishing in Top 8 at smaller events (Gold and Silver levels) brings league points — the best players in the general standings also proceed to the Finals.
Uni2 is an exception here. There will be no standing for this game, only direct invites for winners of the Platinum Qualifiers.
AWT 2024 Finals happen in Spring of 2025. There will be:
- 16 spots for Guilty Gear Strive players
- 16 spots for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
- 8 spots for Uni2
Players may hope to get the final invites at the Last Chance Qualifiers, which traditionally happens right before the main event.
All the participants of the AWT 2024
The Arc World Tour 2024 Finals event happens from March 21 to March 23, 2025. Here are the lists of participants for all three games.
Guilty Gear Strive players at the Arc World Tour 2024 Finals
Five of the AWT 2024 Guilty Gear Strive participants are winners of the Platinum qualifiers. The remaining ten are from the global leaderboard. Two spots go to the winner and runners-up of the AWT 2024 Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) — RedDitto and RedIAmNot.
GGST Platinum winners | GGST leaderboard | GGST leaderboard |
|---|---|---|
| sanakan | Tyurara (277 pts) | Leffen (196 pts) |
| Nitro | Rang13 (265 pts) | Razzo (171 pts) |
| Tiger_Pop | Jonathan Tene (265 pts) | poka (165 pts) |
| Zando | tatuma (236 pts) | Slash (151 pts) |
| Verix | GOBOU (212 pts) | Daru_I-No (126 pts) |
Granblue Fantasy Rising: Versus — Arc World Tour 2024 Finals
There were more Platinum events for this game. Eight winners of those qualifiers got their spots at the Arc World Tour 2024 Finals. The other seven GBVS Rising participants are top players from the global leaderboard.
There also will be the AWT 2024 Last Chance Qualifier for Granblue Fantasy Rising: Versus. The winner advances to the Finals event — BEPaw.
GBVS Rising Platinum winners | GBVS Rising leaderboard |
|---|---|
| Aarondamac | Zane (498 pts) |
| Gamera | Tororo (391 pts) |
| Kojicoco | Zippy (328 pts) |
| Monarch | Elsa (301 pts) |
| Rookies | Fitizen (287 pts) |
| Ryazo | Space (236 pts) |
| Skyll | Xerom (231 pts) |
| Socky |
Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] — AWT 2024 Finals
UNI2 had only Platinum qualifiers through the Arc World Tour 2024. Seven tournament winners advance to the Finals. The LCQ winner will join them — 2GB Combo.
UNI2 Platinum winners | UNI2 Platinum winners |
|---|---|
| Kyo | Defiant |
| Senaru | Mawaru |
| Mo.Sin | Oushuu-Hittou |
| BigBlack |
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AWT 2024 schedule and tournament winners
These events have the highest levels within the Arc World Tour 2024: Platinum and Gold.
Event | Dates | Qualification tier | GGST winner | GBVS Rising winner | UNI2 winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EVO Japan 2024 | April 27-29 | Platinum | TempestNYC | Rookies | Kyo |
| Brussels Challenge Major Edition | May 10-12 | Gold | Slash | Fitizen | - |
| Combo Breaker | May 24-26 | Gold | TempestNYC | Zippy | - |
| Battle Arena Melbourne | May 31 - June 2 | Gold | Tyurara | Tyurara | - |
| Super Tournament | June 8-9 | Gold | GOBOU | Tororo | - |
| Only The Best | June 21-23 | Gold | Zando | Socky | - |
| CEO 2024 | June 28-30 | Gold | UMISHO | Elsa | - |
| The MIXUP | July | Gold | Tiger_Pop | Space | - |
| EVO 2024 | July 19-21 | Platinum | Nitro | Aarondamac | Senaru |
| FV MAJOR | July 27-28 | Gold | Tyurara | Zenith | - |
| VSFighting | August 16-18 | Platinum | Tiger_Pop | Socky | Mo.Sin |
| ARCREVO in SENZAN | August 31 - September 1 | Gold | GOBOU | Osakana-san | - |
| Ultimate Fighting Arena | September 13-15 | Platinum | Zando | Kojicoco | BigBlack |
| Thunderstruck | September 14-15 | Gold | Rang13 | Elsa | |
| Clash Of The Olympians | September 20-22 | Gold | Verix | Skyll | |
| Thaiger Uppercut | October 4-6 | Gold | Poka | gamera | |
| East Coast Throwdown | October 11-13 | Gold | Nitro | Zane | |
| Climax of Night | October 25-27 | Platinum, only Uni2 | - | - | Defiant |
| Stormy Night 2ndFes | November 02 | Platinum, only Uni2 | - | - | Mawaru |
| Battle Coliseum 2024 | November 16-17 | GGST Gold, GBVS Rising Platinum | Rang13 | Ryazo | - |
| CEOtaku | December 6-8 | Gold | Jonathan Tene | Xerom | - |
| Cygames Cup Special 2025 | January 18-19, 2025 | GGST Gold, GBVS Rising Platinum | tatuma | Gamera | - |
| Frosty Faustings | January 24-25, 2025 | Platinum | Verix | Kojicoco | Oushuu-Hittou |
| Kayane Cup | February 01-02, 2025 | GGST Gold, GBVS Rising Platinum | Andross_11 | Skyll | - |
What happened to TempestNYC?
At the start of the Arc World Tour 2024, it seemed like this player was unstoppable. TempestNYC won Evo Japan 2024 and Combo Breaker 2024. Then, he disappeared. You will not find him even among the AWT 2024 Finals participants. What happened to TempestNYC?
The guy was exposed for inappropriate behavior: a couple of the fighting games community (FGC) members accused TempestNYC of sexual advances. That happened in July 2024. TempestNYC explained that by the effect of alcohol on him. He apologized and quit competing. His placement at the Finals event goes to sanakan who was second at Evo Japan 2024.
Arc World Tour 2024 prize pools
Winners of the Finals for GGST and GBVS: Rising will get $50,000. A UNi2 winner will get $20,000.
Who won AWT 2023?
The Arc World Tour 2023 featured the same three games, but only Guilty Gear Strive had a year-long league. GBVS: Rising and Uni2 had a smaller format of qualifiers.
The winners of three Finals are:
- Ismaila "Verix" Gueye from Senegal is the Guilty Gear Strive AWT 2023 Champion
- Junichi "Fukunaga" Kumano from Japan is the Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising AWT 2023 Champion
- Randy "Knotts" from the U.S. is the UNi2 AWT 2023 Champion
What is Guilty Gear Strive?
It’s a pretty popular anime fighting game, an in-house creation of Arc System Works. GGST was launched in 2021 and got a lot of attention from the fighting games community and from gamers in general. It’s a visually beautiful game, with an amazing soundtrack. Recently, it got a new character, A.B.A.
What is Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising?
This game is based on the Japanese social app/game Granblue Fantasy. It features simplified input, which makes the fighting experience accessible for beginners to the genre.
GBVS: Rising has a free-to-play version with a weekly rotation of characters.
A big RPG Granblue Fantasy: Relink was released in February 2024 for PS4, PS5, and Windows.
What is Uni2?
The Under Night In-Birth series was created by another Japanese company, French-Bread. Arc System Works participates in development and publishing in the way they worked on games with other partners, such as Dragon Ball FighterZ with Bandai Namco.
Uni2 invites players to a unique story. The matches are distinguished by a great versatility of mechanics and character archetypes. It’s an anime game with a very dedicated fan-base.
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