2023 Avatar World Championship

2023 Avatar World Championship

2023
Tournament information
Sport	Avatar
Location	Las Venturas
Dates	November 2023–December 2023
Administrator(s)	Glace
Tournament format(s)	10 team single round robin 5 team best-of-seven elimination ladder matchups
Venue(s)	Miranda Arena Las Venturas Convention Center
Teams	10
Purse	10,000,000 euclos
Final positions
Champions	TBD
Runner-up	TBD

The 2023 Avatar World Championship is the 2023 iteration of the Avatar World Championship, the oldest and most prestigious esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena game Avatar. The Avatar World Championship is run by Glace, the developers of Avatar. 2023 will be the eleventh time the tournament runs.

Ten teams from around the world will compete in the tournament, qualifying as the top teams from six top-level regional leagues (Asteria Inferior, Asteria Superior, Brown Sea, East Euclea, Rahelia and West Euclea). Many teams from 2022 are present again, including first-place S5 Gaming and second-place SilverknightS. The format involves each team playing each other in a single round robin, and then the top five proceeding to play best-of-sevens on an elimination ladder; the format is the same as 2022's but for allowing an additional team into the ladder stage. The prize pool totals 10 million euclos (though at times, owing to draws, more than this is disbursed).

The tournament will be hosted in Las Venturas, Rizealand from November to December, around the same time that the tournament is held every year. Round robin games will be played in the Las Venturas Convention Centre, and best-of-sevens in the Miranda Arena. Being held in the Asterias, the tournament completes the Invictus Games-style cycling between the continents (Euclea, Coius and the Asterias) commenced in 2021.

Hosting

tbd

Qualification

The three top teams from Asteria Superior and East Euclea, and the top teams from Asteria Inferior, the Brown Sea, Rahelia and West Euclea qualified, as determined by Glace. As has been common throughout the tournament's history, there was criticism of the opaque way in which the selection criteria were applied. Compared to last year, in 2023 Asteria Superior sent two more teams, and Rahelia made an appearance, while West Euclea lost a slot, and Bahia and Senria did not qualify teams at all.

In Bahia's case, the strength of Rahelia saw their being selected instead, despite the respectable Bahian performances (especially their making finals in 2021, with Mtel Lion City). There is an informal practice of having a single slot assigned to the stronger of the regions of Bahia and Rahelia.

Senria's Rikan Kaminari had also done well in coming fourth in 2022, but the decision was made based that the Asteria Superior region ought to send another team; critics alleged that this was done more for logistical or business regions, given the tournament was to be hosted in Asteria Superior, rather than for competitive ones. However, the justification was also given that Senrian teams fared poorly in trans-Lumine tournaments throughout the year, and apart from 2022, Asteria Superior has generally been in the top three (or four) competitive regions by Avatar World Championship results.

Asteria Superior was assigned only two slots, but the xxx on short notice meant that West Euclea's yyy were uninvited to the tournament. The decision was made to offer the slot to the third placed team in Asteria Superior, the São José Vigilância of Choachua, who could make it on short notice and without excessive expense.

Expectations that Shangea might mature enough as a competitive region to send a team were again not met.

Participants

Team	Qualification	Players					Coach
		Top laner	Top roamer	Mid laner	Bot roamer	Bot laner
Sainte-Chloe Imperials Esports	Asteria Inferior 2023 Champions	tourdeforce (Raymond Delacroix)	pr1nceTienny (Etienne Fenelon)	Ventodoro (Giorno Giovanna)	Bònge (Anne Gaubina)	LaManto (Antelmo Mantovani)	N.A.
Octagamers	Asteria Superior 2023 Champions	Zebrass (Fred Good)	Gomuchae (Song Min-soo)	SyncTwinc (Leslie Scott)	Bandito89 (Diego Nunez)	GhaillishGhoul (Kaiden Kilmartin)	N.A.
Grupp FALKN	Asteria Superior 2023 Runners-up	OneTrickRik (Erik Lindholm)	Kat5Gaming (Raul Ossler)	GunthyWunthy (Gunther Hansen)	Irrelefant (Priscilla Lund)	Frakturkon (Kris Nysund)	N.A.
Equipa do Esporte-Cibernético da Universidade do Avanço Tecnológico de São José Vigilância	Asteria Superior 2023 Wildcard	Txmpxst (Yelyzaveta Boyko)	Template:Country data Choachua Mu (Ines Pereira)	BR4INZZ (Mae Park)	Acoustic (Artem Neizhpapa)	Template:Country data Choachua Ayach (Megan Castelhano)	N.A.
Green Ant Esports	Brown Sea 2023 Champions		bijemene (Jazengi Vidimhe)	oignon (Mamhe Nhidomou)
"Les Amateurs" Équipe de Dêport-Cyber de Rouanet	East Euclea 2023 Champions	XaverGamer (Xavier Boutroux)	FlameBlaise (Sylviane Blaise)	SerChl03 (Ingrid Bouchard)	JPLGaming (Jean-Paul Laurens)	xX_Stunzeed_Xx (Antoine Gérin)	N.A.
"SilverknightS" SwordArts Internet Gaming	East Euclea 2023 Runners-up	SilverPaladin (Alexandru Verean)	ArkleeD (Maria Braz)	Marada (Adam Bonnard)	ShielDCitadeL Andreea Marin	Levikushi Denis Perenoi	N.A.
University of Morwall Esports Club – The Magpies	East Euclea 2023 Wildcard	Template:Country data Estmere dr_dooda (John Turner)	Template:Country data Estmere silentsiren (Chloë Weaver)	Template:Country data Estmere xX_RascaL_Xx (Robin Scott)	maemae_ (Mae Leung)	estaku (Nakao Toyotomi)	Template:Country data Estmere Ed Calhoun
E-sports Benteji	Rahelia 2023 Champions	Saje Ajexe (Asaru Ardeşe)	SnakeSsandru (Ajessandru Luçu)	p1xx0r (Françeska Orora)	K1UTATC0M3T3Ś0R (Dante Magnu)	Citadel (Aframu Fejixe)	N.A.
S5 Gaming	West Euclea 2023 Champions	Vars (Aleksandre Glonti)	delphi (Villiam Järvenpää)	Sagacité (Dragomir Lenov)	volo_city (Valentina Voloshyn)	King_Stanis (Stanisłaŭ Vajciuškievič)	Cheslav Ungern