Nace la eCopa, una competición de eSports organizado por la RFEF y Planeta

Planeta articulará su colaboración con la RFEF a través de su división especializada en esports DeAPlaneta y su canal juvenil Neox, bajo OSL Spain, marca de competiciones creada por la empresa coreana de eSports OGN.

La Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF) y el grupo Planeta han puesto en marcha la eCopa RFEF, the championship that will make it possible for any esports player to represent Spain in official FIFA competitions. Both organizations are promoting a tournament, free and open to all audiences, that will serve to form the Spanish efootball team that will have the possibility of representing Spain in the FIFA eNations Cup, scheduled for next May. This is the first time that a competition has been held to choose the national efootball team.

Planeta will articulate its collaboration with the RFEF through its division specialized in esports DeAPlaneta and its youth channel Neox, under the brand OSL Spain. OSL is the competition brand created by the Korean company specialized in eSports OGN, an international benchmark in the electronic sports industry.

Video games are a transversal and massive entertainment both globally and in Spain, the country where consumption and audience have grown the most in recent years: currently more than 24 million people are video game players, with an average of 9.5 hours a week of dedication. Of all the existing options, FIFA is the most played video game, and is also the best-selling in Europe throughout 2019, despite having gone on sale in the last quarter of the year.

José Creuheras, president of Grupo Planeta, states that "eSports are, without a doubt, a strategic channel for any company that wants to reach a young, technological and dynamic audience. We are aware of the impact they have on society and therefore, as an innovative and leading company, we wanted to provide value propositions that respond to these needs. And what better than to do it with football and share this project with an entity of the size of the RFEF that represents FIFA and UEFA in Spain and which in turn is the guarantor of the good development of the competitions.”

For his part, the president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, ha querido incidir en la importancia de esta iniciativa, con la que se consolida la apuesta de la institución que dirige el fútbol en España por los esports. También ha destacado la importancia de un torneo abierto al público, lo que permitirá difundir el efootball a nivel nacional, así como el hecho de que, a través de la competición, además, se elijan a futuros integrantes de la selección nacional.

Dos fases de competición

La eCopa RFEF se jugará tanto en PlayStation 4 como en Xbox One y contará con dos fases de competición (online y presencial). La inscripción estará abierta para los primeros 4.000 participantes. El periodo para apuntarse ya está abierto y aquellos jugadores que quieran convertirse en los representantes de la selección española de efootball deberán registrarse en la web www.oslspain.com y seguir los pasos indicados.

El torneo eCopa RFEF estará formado por dos fases de competición, una primera online y una segunda presencial, con dos torneos los fines de semana del 7-8 y 28-29 de marzo. La fase online, que arrancará el 17 de febrero, estará dividida en cuatro grupos territoriales con formato de eliminatoria simple a partido de ida y vuelta. Los dos finalistas de cada grupo territorial y de cada plataforma (PlayStation 4 y Xbox) jugarán la final presencial del torneo territorial.

The finalists of the RFEF eCopa will qualify directly for the Grand Final. The rest of the players will be completed with the best players in the official FIFA ranking. The two winners, one for each console, will represent Spain in the FIFA eNations Cup in May.

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