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2021 PUBG ESPORTS changes to the point system




Hello PUBG Esports Fans!

For the majority of PUBG Esports so far, we’ve followed the Standard and Universal PUBG Esports Ruleset “S.U.P.E.R” with very few changes or deviations. During PGI.S, we adjusted the tournament format to place more importance on winning matches. Our overall goal with these changes was to bring back the intensity and accomplishment of being the last team standing, which has always been the heart of Battle Royale. We saw tons of excitement surrounding the Chicken Dinner focused matches and a new level of performance from our pro teams when they had a singular goal to focus on. With that in mind, we are making some changes to the winner decision method of our SUPER point system.

Here’s what will be changing in 2021:

Proposed SUPER Changes
  • The winner of the match is the team who wins the Chicken Dinner
  • The winning team of the Series will be determined by the number of Chicken Dinners won
    • In the event of a tie, total kills earned during the series will be used as a tiebreaker

We want the Chicken Dinner to mean something again since currently the winner is not always clear due to complicated score tallying, and this new system will ensure that a winner is determined as a match concludes. The moment of excitement should be when the game is won, not when the scoreboard pops up. These changes will take effect when PCS4 begins in June, however some regional preliminary matches will use different systems in order to give teams more time to prepare for the change.

As with everything, we’d love to hear your feedback on the new system once PCS4 wraps up. The current point system has served us well for a long time and definitely has legitimacy as an esports scoring system, we’d just like to get to a point where playing PUBG and watching PUBG Esports both evoke the same feelings without having to learn the teams you’re watching have different goals than your squads do.

Thanks for all the love and support you’ve shown PUBG Esports, especially during this last, very difficult year due to the pandemic. Your passion and excitement have helped us continue to put out fun and competitive esports events despite all the difficulties.

Here’s to another great year of PUBG Esports and we’ll see you all at PCS4!

PUBG Lite is shutting down this month

The writing has maybe been on the wall for PUBG Lite for a while. The free-to-play, low spec version of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds ditched its in-game currency in November 2020, becoming completely free. Now a notice from the development team says that the game will close down forever on April 29th.


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PUBG gets a limited-time arcade mode called POBG for April Fool's

In videogames, April Fool's Day pranks come in two main flavours: there are the gag announcements, in which a developer says it's going to do something silly; and then there are the joke games - where a developer actually does something extremely silly. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has opted for the latter this year, adding a whole new arcade game to its battle royale's menu screen. But you'll have to hurry, because this new mode is only around for a little while.


PlayerOmnom's Battlegrounds is an arcade cabinet you'll find in the PUBG menu between now and April 12. It's a top-down 2D arcade shooter done in delightful pixel art, inspired by pixel artist Alexey Garkushin. In it, you'll have to travel across PUBG's familiar locales, fighting chickens that have become absolutely jacked with pure rage over their use as a reward for winning squads.


As if adding an entirely new game to PUBG wasn't enough, the developer has gone so far as to invent both an in-universe story for POBG as well as a fictional real-world origin for the game itself.


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From PUBG to WoW, here are some of the best April Fool's jokes we've seen

April 1 is a precarious time to be covering the games industry as a news writer. Some studios may throw something out there that could trip you up - boo! - whereas others take advantage of the silliness of the occasion to put out something that's actually real, pretty neat, or just absurdly daft. I need somewhere to stick these April Fool's jokes I'm coming across on my usual news hunt - read: scrolling through Twitter and Reddit - so here are some gags and cool modes that we think are pretty neato.


One of the first April Fool's-related slices of content to catch my eye today was, ahem, POBG. It's an arcade 2D shooter that you can access in the battle royale's menu until April 12. So it goes, the chickens of the PUBG universe are tired of all these chicken dinners you've been havin' with the squad. Rather than hear them out, though, we're taking the fight to PlayerOmnom and his Henerals.


Here's some, uh, flavour text from the Steam page reveal: "What was the saying? Oh yes. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner. You survivors revel in your victories over each other and still have the gall to drag us into it. Well, no more. You've been a pox on us for far too long and the bock stops here. This time, the chickens are the top of the pecking order."


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PUBG's next Survivor Pass arrives in the battle royale's next big update

We now have a better idea when we'll be getting our mitts on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' next Survivor Pass. With PUBG Season 11 kicking off just the other day, fans took to the battle royale's Discord server to query when the next Survivor Pass is coming.


One such fan got an answer from community manager Henry G, who explains that it'll be coming to PC and console in update 11.2. We just had update 11.1 last month, so you can expect the Survivor Pass to launch in PUBG's next big update. Update releases aren't too spread apart from one another, so the pass could arrive this month or next, we reckon.


If you've been out of the loop, Krafton recently revealed that it's changing up how it utilises the Survivor Pass. Before the latest season wrapped up, Krafton explained that the pass will now be independent of each season and will start and wrap up at different times. "Starting with Season 11, Survivor Passes will no longer be exclusively tied to the season itself," the studio explained at the time. "Instead, they will run on their own timelines and have their own start and end schedules independent of the season."


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