PMWI 2021 West: A7 Esports champions

A7 Esports won the Western Division of the PUBG Mobile World Invitational 2021, an online event for teams from the Americas, Europe and MENA, beating Konina Power into second place.

The Western Division ran from 22 to 25 July 2021 with sixteen teams for an $80,000 team prize pool, with a further $1,500,000 donated to charity. KRAFTON, Tencent Games and Gamers Without Borders organised the event.

Four days of play produced twenty matches, five per day, on Erangel, Sanhok and Miramar, with the first match each day starting at 15:30 GMT.

Each team took $5,000 from the $80,000 team pool, and the $1,500,000 charity fund was split into daily and overall prizes. A7 raised $352,500 for UNICEF, the largest single charity share, and KnowMe of Konina Power was named MVP, with $5,000 donated for his award.

A7 finished on 251 points, ahead of Konina Power on 227 and Next Rüya Gaming on 213. Road To Glory Esports took fourth on 207, and Ghost Gaming fifth on 180.

Viewers could follow the English broadcast on the PUBG Mobile Esports channels on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Nimo TV, alongside eight regional broadcasts.

Behind the top five, 19esports took sixth on 169 points, Chivas Esports seventh on 158, Destiny eighth on 149, Gunz Esports ninth on 141, Team RA'AD tenth on 117, Team Queso eleventh on 113, QLASH twelfth on 106, UDR Killers thirteenth on 103, Lakonostra MVP fourteenth on 89, Team Onyx fifteenth on 86 and GODSENT sixteenth on 83.