PMGC 2022: S2G Esports end China's run

The third Global Championship ran from 10 November 2022 to 8 January 2023, with the league stage in Kuala Lumpur and the Grand Finals in Jakarta, Indonesia. Fifty teams competed for a $4,000,000 prize pool.

S2G Esports of Türkiye won the title, ending China's run of back-to-back titles. It was the first PMGC Grand Finals played as an offline LAN event after the online editions.

Forty-eight teams entered the League stage in Kuala Lumpur, split into three groups of sixteen that each played one week of twenty-four matches. The top three from each group reached the Grand Finals, while fourth to eleventh went to the Survival Stage and the bottom five went out.

Twenty-four Survival Stage teams played eighteen matches across three days, with the top sixteen reaching the Last Chance round. Twelve Last Chance matches then sent five more teams into the Grand Finals.

Jakarta staged eighteen Grand Finals matches from 6 to 8 January 2023, with S2G taking the title on 190 points. The Grand Finals carried a $1,500,000 pool, with $400,000 for the winners.

Top of Godlike Stalwart was named the tournament MVP after 31 eliminations and 10,074 damage across the eighteen matches.

Placement points ran 15 for a win, then 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2, with one point for eighth to twelfth and one more per elimination.

Jakarta hosted the first PMGC Grand Finals played in front of a live audience, after the 2020 and 2021 editions were played online. Fans could follow in English, Indonesian, Arabic, Thai and more languages on the official PUBG Mobile Esports channels.

S2G banked $510,000 across the whole event, with DRS on $292,000 and Alpha7 on $217,000.