The Global Creator Festival, WCG (World Cyber Games) 2024 was successfully held in Indonesia from 31 August to 1 September 2024. During the 2 days of WCG 2024, more than 40,000 visitors attended the event involving 150 global influencers.
Creator Rumble: 60, which is one of the main programs of the 2024 WCG Festival, features exciting matches between global influencers and is attended by Windah Basudara, Dean KT, and Ibnu Wardani. After going through tough roro4d competition with influencers from all over the world, Team K from South Korea succeeded in winning the title of Creator Rumble 60. The team consisting of Gainpot, Testerhoon and Hyunsol succeeded in becoming the winner and was entitled to a prize of IDR 500 million.
Competition that is no less exciting also occurs in the WCG Rivals competition. From WCG Rivals Valorant, Team MY SG succeeded in taking the WCG Rivals Valorant champion crown. The team whose roster was filled with Faroukjer, Fancfreakz, Esoteric_Yoru, Shawn_2002 and Probosu successfully defeated Team Rio Djaja in the final round with a score of 2-0.
Meanwhile from WCG Rivals MLBB, Team Liusandre from Indonesia won the title after successfully defeating Team Rafbeh with a score of 3-0. With this result, Team Liusandre has the right to take home a winning prize of IDR 100 million.
From WCG Rivals Crossfire, Team China succeeded in becoming champion after achieving a perfect score without defeat against Team Indonesia.
Another exciting battle also took place at MDL Showmatch WCG 2024 involving Evos Icon vs Geek Fam Jr. Through a match with the Best of 3 format, Evos Icon successfully made a comeback against Geek Fam Jr and won the title and received a total prize of IDR 70 million.
Various exciting competitions and competitions at WCG 2024 were closed perfectly with special performances from JKT48 and Tiara Andini who entertained the visitors.
WCG Festival 2024 was able to be held successfully thanks to the support of the Indonesian Government and the Korean Embassy in Indonesia, as well as various sponsors and partners such as Smilegate, Rexus, IOH, Coca-Cola, Grab, Orang Tua, and more than 50 other companies including game publishers, communities , corporate and F&B.
Since it was held from 2001 to 2023, WCG has awarded a very large total prize, reaching USD 5.86 million or the equivalent of IDR 91.8 billion. Beside the tournament, WCG was targeted by amateur and professional participant, as well as influencers from all fields, especially big gaming influencers. In addition, WCG 2001 – 2023 has been watched by 863.52 million viewers and has collaborated with more than 100 global partners.
A number of giants participant such as Apple, Microsoft, Tencent, Samsung and other many names participated as support Partners in the big WCG event. Not only that, WCG also collaborates with YouTube, Facebook and other streaming platforms as Platform Partners by broadcasting WCG shows live or delayed broadcasts.
In WCG 2023, it successfully attracted 120 million viewers, 80 million influencer followers, more than 200 influencers, 8 thousand participants and 80 countries. WCG 2023 is include into 3 types, namely participant Tournaments, Teams, and World Champion Game 2024 Busan.