Alliance Wins EWC: Apex Legends in longest Apex match ever

Alliance bested 40 teams from around to globe to become your first ever Esports World Cup: Apex Legends champions, also taking the title in the longest Apex Legends Grand Finals in the history of the sport.

A huge congratulations to this squad, who survived a marathon gauntlet to ascend to the Apex Legends throne and become the first EMEA team to win a LAN championship in Apex.

How Alliance won EWC: Apex Legends

The road to Grand Finals

Alliance has been around for a long time, competing in the EMEA ALGS scene. They are known for their solid performances in group stages, but they have always fallen short in the playoffs of every major tournament they have attended, leading to claims that they are a group stage team.

Heading into the Esports World Cup: Apex Legends Grand Finals, they had the opportunity to beat those allegations and flip the script — and that’s exactly what they did.

The Group Stage was a relatively easy affair for Alliance. They only won one game, but in terms of points they dominated the group finishing as the only team to earn over 100 points in Group B. Of course, as a noted Group Stage team this was not surprising, the real test was yet to come in the Grand Finals.

Alliance wins the longest Grand Finals in Apex Legends history

The Grand Finals was decided via a Match Point format. In this format, a team has to reach 60 points through a combination of kills and placement to enter “match point.” Once a team reaches match point, they will win the tournament if they win a game.

As It turns out, this format can make for a very long (and very epic) Apex Grand Finals series. In this case, we ended up going to 13 games back-to-back, across seven hours of competition — the longest Apex series ever.

Team Falcons pulled ahead early during the first five games of the Grand Finals. While they didn’t win any of them, they managed to take two 2nd-place finishes and reach match point before any other team in Game 6.

But we were far from done. Falcons stalled out after Game 6, leaving space for Gaimin Gladiators, Team Liquid, Aurora, Mizuchi all to reach Match Point by Game 9.

Then DMS took Game 9, setting up Game 10 where half the lobby was now on match point, with DMS, Guild, FaZe, and most notably Alliance joining the match point crew.

Despite half of the lobby being in championship-winning position, none of them could seem to close it out. Across the next three games, only teams not on match point would win. In Game 10 it was EXO, Game 11 went to Luminosity, and Twisted Minds claimed Game 12.

Finally in Game 13 — after a grueling marathon of Apex action — Alliance found themselves with the upper hand during the final circle, with only one squad standing between them and history. And despite only a middling showing across most of the series, Alliance snatched their first victory of the finals when it mattered most, claiming the Apex Legends title and beating the allegations that they can only deliver in group stage.

With that win, they claim the 4th LAN title in the five-and-half year history of Apex Legends, and etch their name into the World Cup history books as the first-ever EWC: Apex Legends Champions.

EWC: Apex Legends MVP and final earnings

Alliance hoisted the first EWC: Apex Legends trophy, securing the massive $600,000 bag. Our runners-up were the home team, Team Falcons, who earned a respectable $375,000 prize. Finally, Luminosity Gaming rounded out the top 3, securing a $200,000 prize.

The MVP title went to none other than Alliance IGL Hakis, who earned his $50,000 USD cash prize through game-changing calls.

His leadership was without a doubt the difference maker in Game 14, where their final circle positioning set them up to clinch the championship!