{"id":41636,"date":"2025-03-15T05:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=41636"},"modified":"2025-03-15T05:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T09:04:53","slug":"new-orleans-set-to-host-biggest-algs-lan-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/new-orleans-set-to-host-biggest-algs-lan-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans set to host biggest ALGS LAN tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one month after GoNext Esports\u2019 shock victory at the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/apex-legends\/global-series\/\" title=\"Apex Legends Global Series betting guide\">Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS)<\/a>: 2024 Championship in Japan, the series organisers revealed New Orleans as the host city of the next major LAN event, the ALGS 2025 Open.<\/p>\n<p>The ALGS 2025 Open was confirmed to take place at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Los Angeles, from May 1 to 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first major LAN event of ALGS Year 5 and the first open-format tournament ALGS ever hosted.<\/p>\n<p>It will feature 160 <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/apex-legends\/\" title=\"Apex Legends betting guide\">Apex Legends<\/a> teams vying for their share of the $1,000,000 prize pool.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LAN is back and it&#39;s bigger than ever! <br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ALGSOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ALGSOpen<\/a> is heading to New Orleans May 1 &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Tickets go on sale March 18! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/innhoQXJZx\">pic.twitter.com\/innhoQXJZx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Apex Legends Esports (@PlayApexEsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApexEsports\/status\/1900562866601619716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The list of participating teams includes the recently crowned ALGS champions, GoNext Esports, and other big names from the scene &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/apex-legends\/global-series\/championship\/\" title=\"ALGS Championship betting guide\">ALGS 2024 Championship<\/a> runners-up Alliance, Team Falcons, 100 Thieves, Fnatic, Virtus.pro, Luminosity Gaming, ENVY, Shopify Rebellion, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament organisers have confirmed 86 participants.<\/p>\n<p>That includes 21 from the Americas and Asia-Pacific (APAC) South and 22 from EMEA and APAC North.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining spots will be filled in by squads that make it through regional qualifiers, expanding the list of participants by 120.<\/p>\n<p>The complete list of ALGS Open teams will not be available until the conclusion of the Preseason Qualifiers, scheduled to take place from March 15-17.<\/p>\n<p>Besides expanding the upcoming LAN event, ALGS Year 5 will introduce some gameplay changes, including adding Broken Moon to the map pool.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, ALGS will introduce Legend Bans in the upcoming season, with the ALGS 2025 Open being the first official LAN tournament to use new rules.<\/p>\n<p>With the new rule, all legends will be available at the start; however, the legend that is picked by the most teams will be removed from the pool after each match for the remainder of the series.<\/p>\n<p>If an entire class of legends (Skirmisher, Assult, Recon, Controller, or Support) is set to be removed during the series, the legend that is banned the longest will return to the pool.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the increase in the number of participating teams, the ALGS 2025 Open will have half of the prize pool offered by the ALGS 2024 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Only the top 40 teams get a share of the pool.<\/p>\n<p>The top five teams will also receive invites to the ALGS 2025 Midseason Playoffs which will feature 40 teams and a US$1,000,000 prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>Following the conclusion of the ALGS 2025 Open, the focus will move to the 2025 Esports World Cup, scheduled to kick off on July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) organisers revealed New Orleans as the host city of the next major LAN event, the ALGS 2025 Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":24863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2222,681,910],"class_list":["post-41636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-algs-championship","tag-apex-legends","tag-apex-legends-global-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41639,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41636\/revisions\/41639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}