Overview
- Organizers published the full ENC schedule on Tuesday, June 16, confirming a month-long tournament in Riyadh running across November with 16 game titles assigned to dedicated weeks.
- The schedule breaks November into four blocks that group games by genre, for example Week 1 (early November) will stage chess, Dota 2, PUBG Mobile and Rocket League while the final days close with League of Legends, Apex Legends, Honor of Kings and Mobile Legends.
- Regional chess qualifying events held June 6–14 used nine-round Swiss rapid tournaments followed by double-elimination brackets to produce 61 qualifiers who will join 64 invited or pre-qualified players and three wildcards, with a two-player-per-country cap enforced.
- The Esports World Cup Foundation launched a $2 million Creator Program to subsidize selected creators and co-streamers to cover ENC content, and early-bird ticket sales and multi‑week passes are already available to fans.
- ENC is a nation-based championship distinct from the Esports World Cup, and staging ENC in Riyadh while the EWCF has moved the Esports World Cup to Paris signals a deliberate geographic split of major EWCF events that will affect player travel, national selection pressure, and regional fan access.