Arc World Tour 2024: Games, events, format [Finals participants added]

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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.

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AWT 2024 games

The Tour features three of the most recent fighting games developed and published by Arc System Works:

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:

Players may hope to get the final invites at the Last Chance Qualifiers, which traditionally happens right before the main event.

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All the participants of the AWT 2024

The Arc World Tour 2024 Finals event happens from March 21 to August 16, 2025. Here are the lists of participants for all three games.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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:

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.

Uni2invites 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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