PMGC 2024: Dplus KIA win in London

The fifth Global Championship ran from 31 October to 8 December 2024, with the league stage in Kuala Lumpur and the Grand Finals at ExCeL London. Forty-nine teams competed for a $3,000,000 prize pool.

London's Grand Final went to Dplus KIA of South Korea, the first South Korean team to win the title, edging Regnum Carya Bra Esports in a close finish.

Dplus took $457,250 from the $3,000,000 prize pool.

Forty-eight teams opened the league in Kuala Lumpur, split into three groups of sixteen for a group stage that gave each group its own week of twenty-four matches.

Nine finalists came straight from the groups, with the top three in each group booking London without another round.

Everyone placed fourth to eleventh went to a survival stage in Kuala Lumpur, and the best sixteen there played a last chance round that sent six more teams to London.

Prize money split into two pots, with $1,580,000 spread across the league stage and $1,420,000 reserved for the London finals.

London paid $400,000 to the champions as its first place prize, with $200,000 for second and $120,000 for third, before participation rewards and earlier stage money lifted the final team totals.

Points followed the Points10 table, giving ten for a win and one for each finish.

Dplus KIA closed the eighteen match final on 153 points, one ahead of Regnum Carya Bra Esports on 152.

The English broadcast ran on the PUBG Mobile Esports channels on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch, with regional feeds in 22 languages.

Nigma Galaxy MEA finished third on 137 points, with INFLUENCE RAGE fourth on 117, VOIN Donkey ID fifth on 112, DRX sixth on 109, 4Merical Vibes seventh on 104, Team Spirit eighth on 101, Insilio ninth on 100, Tong Jia Bao Esports tenth on 98, Alpha7 Esports eleventh on 95, The Vicious LATAM twelfth on 93, ThunderTalk Gaming thirteenth on 81, Falcons Force fourteenth on 71, Natus Vincere fifteenth on 69 and Guild Esports sixteenth on 44.