CyberFest Announcement — an eSports festival with a prize pool of over 7 million rubles

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From June 25 to July 6, 2024, large-scale competitions in computer sports will take place at CyberFest in Vladivostok, including the "CyberEast 2024 - Regional Tournament" and the first annual international eSports tournament in the Far Eastern Federal District.

The organizers of the competitions are Infra Lab, the Federation of Computer Sports of Russia, the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, Vladivostok State University, the Government of Primorsky Krai, and the administration of Vladivostok. The event will be held with the support of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District, the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East, and the Ministry of Sports of Russia. The partner of CyberFest is Fonbet.

The events will be held as part of the assignment from the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, given at the WEF-2023. He noted that holding high-level competitions contributes to the promotion of computer sports both in Russia and abroad.

Large market players are also joining in the popularization of computer sports in Russia. In 2023, Fonbet created its own eSports league. The first Fonbet Media eLeague in the CS:GO discipline started in March 2023, having completed 6 seasons to date, with a total prize pool of 11.5 million rubles. In 2024, the company created a new competitive platform for sports programming called "Foncode" in collaboration with FSP.

"The development of computer sports is a priority for Fonbet. Further support for this direction will increase the competitiveness of our teams in domestic and international competitions. Partnership with CyberFest is an important and logical step for our company," noted Fonbet's CEO Sergey Anokhin.

The "CyberEast 2024 - Regional Tournament" in the game "[World of Tanks](/games?search=Мир Танков)" will take place in two stages. Qualifying matches were held online from June 1 to June 9, 2024, and the strongest eSports players will compete for the championship in the finals on June 25, 2024.

From June 26 to 28, the final of the Russian Computer Sports Championship 2024 will take place within the festival for the DCL disciplines - The Game, Tetris, [Tekken 8](/games?search=Tekken 8), StarCraft 2, [DOTA 2](/games?search=DOTA 2), Counter-Strike 2. From June 29 to 30, 2024, the first annual international eSports tournament in the Far Eastern Federal District will join the championship, and on June 30, ahead of the opening of the international tournament "CyberEast", there will be an exhibition match between the Primorsky Krai team and the Far Eastern Federal District team.

Teams from Russia, the People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Republic of Belarus will participate in the international tournament. Each country will field a national team of 5 members. The teams will compete for the championship in [DOTA 2](/games?search=DOTA 2).

The finals will be held in a LAN (Local Area Network) format with free entry to the venue. You can follow the events on the website kиберфест.рф and in the official social networks of CyberFest and partners.