Pros in Apex Legends are disappointed because EA only gives them cheap PCs for a $1 million tournament

The Battle Royale shooter Apex Legends is in stalemate: For the first time after a two-and-a-half-year Corona break, a major tournament is taking place again: The Apex Legends Global Series begins today, April 29, 2022, in Stockholm, Sweden. The prize money is one million US dollars. But the pros will have to play on flimsy PCs that they consider “outdated”.

What is this tournament?

• It’s the Apex Legends Global Series: Split 2 Playoffs. The tournament starts today, April 29th, in Stockholm, Sweden and ends on May 1st.
• 40 teams will take part in the tournament. You start in 4 groups of 10 teams each. The grand finale is scheduled for May 1st.
• The winner will receive $250,000 in prize money, with the remaining $750,000 shared among the remaining participants. Places 31 to 40 also get $4,500 each.

Professionals play tournaments on worse PCs than they have at home

What is the problem? The tournament is to be played on PCs that use an RTX 2070 graphics card. She’s about four years old.

Because there is a lot going on in Apex Legends: Many effects fly across the screen, especially when the action at the end of a match is concentrated in a small circle. And at the tournament, this circle will determine who takes home the $250,000. The tournament PCs should be able to display this well and smoothly if the professionals have their way.

The pros saw the PCs provided by EA as an “outdated” setup that would struggle to render Apex Legends e-sports quality.

So you train and play at home on better PCs and then have to make do with that weak hardware when it really counts.

Can’t EA do anything about it? Yes, they wanted too. In the meantime, EA had promised to switch to “high-end PCs”.

On April 21, an EA employee said they would ship new machines with RTX 3080 graphics cards and modern processors from Intel to Stockholm, prompting praise from the community.

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But that didn’t work in the end. In a last-minute change, the professionals now have to use the cheaper PCs after all.

The pros seem disappointed by this, calling it “more than pathetic.”

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