FIFA 19 Global Series Schedule: FUT Champions Cup Format, Live Stream Details
EA Sports’ FIFA 19 Global Series will host an upcoming FUT Champions Cup next week. This will feature some of the top FIFA competitors in the world, including those from the United States. As of Friday (Nov. 23), EA Sports is giving a bit more about the details for this competitive FIFA 19 tournament which rewards one winner with a sweet cash prize.
FIFA 19 Global Series Schedule: Details for FUT 19 Champions Cup
FUT is the FIFA Ultimate Team aspect of the popular game and the Championship Cup will feature the best of the best. The upcoming tournament officially starts next Friday, November 30 and will take place until December 2, 2018. Bucharest, Romania will be the host location with PS4 presenting the tournament.
A total of 64 FUT Champions Verified competitors will participate at the start. These competitors qualified last month during a special tournament held online. There are 32 Xbox One competitors and 32 PlayStation 4 competitors in the tournament, but only one will become champion.
Two players competing in a matchup will have two games against one another. Aggregate scores are added up for each player over those two games, and the player with the higher score moves on. A tie will be determined via Extra Time, or penalties, if necessary. They’ll need to make sure they bring their A-game for the award-nominated sports title.
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The group stage will have 32 Xbox and 32 PS4 players whittled down to just 16. Those players move on to a single elimination knockout stage. Competitors’ performance in the group stage determines their matchups in the knockout stage. More details about the way that points are accumulated are available here at EA Sports.
Once it gets down to one PS4 competitor and one Xbox One competitor, the championship is on. They’ll go against one another in two different games, with one on each platform. The winning player is the one who has the highest aggregate score after those two games. A cool $50,000 prize goes to the winner.
FIFA 19 Global Series Schedule for live stream coverage
While there will be spectators at the event in Bucharest, many people may want to watch from another location. Luckily, the FUT 19 Champions Cup will be live streaming online. The action will be available in several spots with EA Sports’ Twitch Channel, Facebook Page, Twitter, and YouTube Channel each live streaming it.
Friday’s action starts at 12 p.m. Central European Time (CET) and lasts until 8 p.m. CET. Saturday (Dec. 1) and Sunday (Dec. 2) will also run through those same times.
Those times correspond to 6 p.m. Eastern Time until 2 a.m. Eastern Time for United States viewers. See more details here on when each matchup will be live streaming online.
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