New game and better lineup for Shanghai E-Sports Masters

Top eSports teams and players from China and overseas are again gathered in Shanghai for the 2024 Shanghai E-Sports Masters.

The five-day event, which is being held at the Jing'an Sports Center through December 8, has set the four competition games of Honor of Kings, Valorant, Naraka: Bladepoint, and Street Fighter 6.

For the Honor of Kings, the King Pro League sent eight teams featuring most of the league's main players. The emerging game Valorant involved the new world champion EDG and the Asia-Pacific powerhouse PRX from Singapore.

People can buy tickets through online vendor damai.cn.

The seat layout of Jing'an Sports Center's indoor stadium has been adjusted for this year's competition, allowing 2,000 spectators for each game.

While eSports competitions have always been dominated by game manufacturers, the Shanghai Masters, launched in 2019, has gradually established its own brand value over the past five years.

"As a third-party competition hosted by the government, we were initially inferior to commercial competitions of a single manufacturer or game in terms of prize money and attention," said Zhu Qinqin, secretary general of Shanghai eSports Association.