World of Warcraft Arena World Championship

World of Warcraft Arena World Championship
	; New 2018 logo
Status	Active
Genre	Video game
Location(s)	Usually at BlizzCons
Country	United States
Inaugurated	October 10/11, 2008 (as Arena Tournament)
Organized by	Blizzard Entertainment
Website
	worldofwarcraft.com

Trophy

The World of Warcraft Arena World Championship (abbreviated as AWC) is the esports tournaments for World of Warcraft.

History

AWC 2023 Dragonflight Season 3 had a share of a $300,000 (USD) prize pool across the entire season and a banner toy [Dreaming Banner of the Aspects] for teams that competes in a full AWC Cup.^[1]
AWC 2023 Dragonflight Season 2 had a share of a $400,000 (USD) prize pool across the entire season, $10,000 (USD) per Cup and a banner toy [Smoldering Banner of the Aspects] for teams that competes in a full AWC Cup.^[2]
AWC 2023 Dragonflight Season 1 had a share of a $400,000 (USD) prize pool and introduced a banner toy, [Thundering Banner of the Aspects], as a reward to all participants^[3]
Arena World Championship 2022. The audience earned the [Fearless Spectator] for watching via YouTube.
Arena World Championship 2019
Arena World Championship 2018 had a share of a $280,000 (USD) prize pool.^[4] It took place at BlizzCon 2018.
Arena World Championship 2017 took place at BlizzCon 2017. The world champions were ABC.^[5]
Arena World Championship 2016 took place at BlizzCon 2016. The audience earned the [Patron of War] for watching via Twitch.
Arena World Championship 2014
BlizzCon 2013 Arena Global Invitational
World of Warcraft Arena Global Finals 2012, also the introduction of the World Championship branding, took place in Shanghai, China in late 2012.
BlizzCon 2011 Arena Global Invitational
BlizzCon 2010 Arena Tournament
BlizzCon 2009 Arena Tournament
BlizzCon 2008 Arena Tournament was the first major arena event for 3v3 arena.

Notes

With the StarCraft II World Championship closing its doors in 2020 in favor of the ESL Pro Tour,^[6] the WoW Arena World Championship is the last on-going esports from Blizzard that has the "World Championship" branding.