WePlay! Forge of Masters Season 2 announced with $100,000 prize pool

WePlay! esports has announced the second edition of the Forge of Masters, featuring a $100,000 prize fund.

The league will kick off on October 1 and will culminate with LAN finals taking place in Kiev from November 15-17. The online portion of the tournament will begin with online qualifiers in Europe and in the CIS, determining four teams advancing to the main tournament, which will consist of three different stages.

The first stage of the tournament will see 24 contestants - 12 per region - split into six GSL groups. The group winners will advance straight to the LAN finals, the runners-up to the third stage, and the third-placed teams to the second stage.

The six third-placed teams will be placed in a single-elimination bracket, with the top three sides advancing to a round-robin group, from which the top two contenders will progress to the third stage. In it, they will join the six runners-up in a single-elimination bracket that will determine the last two teams going to the Ukrainian capital.

Following is the distribution of the $100,000 prize pool:

1. $50,000
2. $20,000
3-4. $10,000
5-6. $3,000
7-8. $2,000

Below is a comprehensive schedule for all stages of the event:

European Open qualifier #1 - September 14-15
European Open qualifier #2 - September 21-22
Unknown flag cis CIS Open qualifier #1 - September 14-15
Unknown flag cis CIS Open qualifier #2 - September 21-22

Stage one - October 1-13
Stage two - October 19-20
Stage three - November 1-3
LAN finals - November 15-17

Contacted by HLTV.org, WePlay! explained that registration for the online qualifiers will open one week before the start of the tournaments.