- FACEIT will host the officially-licensed FACEIT Pro Series: Apex Legends tournament series, featuring a $50K USD prize pool.
- Fourteen organizations, including Cloud9, 100 Thieves, Gen.G Esports, and Complexity Gaming, will compete in the series. Two more teams will be added via a qualifier.
- Apex Legends has seen significantly reduced Twitch viewership since its February launch, and has reportedly pulled in much less revenue as well.
Tournament operator FACEIT 
has revealed the FACEIT Pro Series: Apex Legends, an officially-licensed tournament series based around Electronic Arts’ free-to-play battle royale shooter.
The series will feature eight online events and award a total of $50K. The first event will take place May 31, with 16 teams competing for a share of the prize pool.
FACEIT has already announced 14 of the participating teams, and they’re all well-known organizations: 100 Thieves
, Counter Logic Gaming , G2 Esport s , Cloud9 , Complexity Gaming , Dignitas , Fnatic , Gen.G Esports , Misfits , NRG Esports , T1 , Immortals , Team Liquid , and Team SoloMid . Two additional teams will be added via a qualifying tournament.
T1 and FACEIT previously partnered for an Apex Legends Invitational event on March 30, which saw 20 squads—each led by a popular streamer—compete for a share of $25K.
Apex Legends launched in early February and was an immediate sensation, drawing more than 50M players in the first month and briefly topping Fortnite as the most-viewed game on Twitch
. The initial surge in interest was helped by an aggressive marketing push by EA, which paid top influencers like Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek to stream the game during the first days of release.
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However, Apex Legends has not been able to sustain its strong start on multiple fronts. Twitch viewership steadily sank throughout March and has continued to fall in the time since, and a new report from Nielsen’s
market research firm SuperData estimates that Apex Legends earned $24M from in-game purchases in April—a 74% drop from February’s estimated tally of $92M.
EA plans to release Apex Legends on mobile, and will outline its future content plans for the game at its EA Play event in Los Angeles on June 8-9.
