The Second WTCS Major is Here: Register Now for the Qualification Stage!

Official News, Development Blogs and Updates
1

The War Thunder Championships Series (WTCS) continues! After TITAN and the victory for AVReS, it’s time for you to take part in the second Major Event of the year: Armored Apex! Here, you’ll use legendary vehicles like the M1A2 Abrams or the T-80BVM on famous maps like Normandy or Advance to the Rhine. Armored Apex, the second major event, is a qualifying tournament, which allows you to score points for the 2025 WTCS season in a 4v4 RB Tank format!

Without further ado, let’s check out the lineup, maps, date and prizes for this second Major!

Tournament Dates

After each Open qualifier, four teams will qualify for the Play-Off phases. For more information, be sure to check out the War Thunder Esports in 2025: The Beginning Of A New Era news that describes everything in detail.

Open Qualifier I: June 14th-15th at 15:00 GMT

Open Qualifier II: June 21st-22nd at 15:00 GMT

Play-Offs: June 28th-29th & July 5th-6th at 15:00 GMT

Register NOW!

The Line-Up & Map Pools

Here’s the line-up that will be used for Open Qualifier I & II. It will be exactly the same for the Play-off phases.

Please note that there will be no map bans during the Open Qualifiers. All maps will be selected randomly. However, for the 8 Qualified teams, a map ban will be set up for the Play-offs.

Tournament Prizes

For each Open Qualifier, there’s a total of 86,400 Golden Eagles, plus Research Point & Silver Lion boosters and Premium Account time!

Here’s a detailed list of the Major’s prizes:

Awards for 4-8th places

Live Streams with Twitch Drops!

When: Each stream will start from 14:45 GMT

Open Qualifier I Stream: June 14th-15th

Open Qualifier II Stream: June 21st-22nd

During the live broadcasts throughout the two weekends of the Open Qualifier matches, you can receive boosters and premium account time from Twitch Drops. Make sure to stay tuned for the Twitch drops prizes during the Finals!

There’s a variety of broadcasts in different languages to give you the best experience in English, Russian, German, Polish and French.

Follow

Login to your Twitch account → link your Gaijin account → click “Allow” to be able to receive Twitch Drops!

Giveaways on the Official Esports Discord!

During the WTCS Armored Apex Major, join the Official War Thunder Esports Discord server to hang out with like-minded competitive players and take part in major giveaways that include the following packs:

  • Leopard 2 (OTCo) Pack
  • RAH-66 Comanche Pack
  • F-2A ADTW Pack
  • Leopard 2A4 Pack

The Esports team wishes you the best of luck for the qualification phases. May the force be with you!

War Thunder - Thunder Tactiks Pack

The Kit Includes:

3.99 Store

2 Likes
2

so what are the twitch drops?

4 Likes
3

i think those come later, when the streams are announced

4

I can tell you AVR is winning like last time. They dominante squadron battles with 3 teams (Rank 1, 4 & 7). They dominante every season for at least 12-18 month. Funny E-Sport If you already know who wins.

1 Like
5

I fully dislike War thunder tournaments always face same pro teams have 0 chance to even be in top 10 and I just don’t understand why snail put Object 279 / IS-7 / E-100 / AMX 50 only way to get these tanks is by spending millions of SL or play tournaments with 0.00000001 chance to win.

why war thunder chooses to put heavy tanks as prizes?

I will never have chance to get IS-7 / E-100 / AMX 50

always the same teams ruined it for other new teams.

6

Why are these lineups so weirdly balanced? T-90M and T-80BVM vs Leopard 2A4s doesn’t seem the fairest, and why does Israel have the Mk.2B?

Also, why are squadron vehicles included? Is it so more people can join, or just to fill out the lineup?

2 Likes
7

Line ups are balanced according to previous tournaments and players feedback from our official esport discord.
Please be aware, that line ups used in tournaments doesn’t work same as lineups in regular, random battles - different rules, different environment. Something, that fits perfectly in random battle can be very unbalanced for tournament clashes.

1 Like
8

Esport in War Thunder rarely seen something so ridiculous and then BVM vs Leopard 2A4 all clear. Please add some more Russian BIAS, otherwise someone else might win too

4 Likes
9

image

10

if you ever watched the tournaments you would see BVM is probably one of the worst picks meanwhile Abramses and Leclercs the best.

11

3nd place

5 Likes
12

I feel like there’s a rather noticeable BR difference between the countries

1 Like
13

i can tell you have never seen a tournament

14

Looks like 7th is the place to be:
image

But not for me since this is 03:00 local!

1 Like
15

Recognising sarcasm not your strong suit then?

16

Btw I wasn’t crying “Buh Mussian Rias!”, I chose the T-series for my target because it was simplest, either way I wonder what the balancing with this is based around and why the Leo2A4 is being paired up against M1A2s and Leo2A6s

Ik it’s only one spawn per player (iirc) so it’s not as much a “lineup”, I still just find them really oddly made, especially Israel and the addition of squadron vehicles (T 80 U, T-80UK, and Leopard 2PL)

Also, do you get the same rewards as the places below you? (As in the blueprints cause imo 8th, 7th, 1st, and 2nd place would be the most worth it if you don’t get stuff below you, I’m also a little biased and just think those are coolest lol)

17

What if i told you, barely anyone uses RU in those tournaments?

18

Turns out when players don’t suck, and know weakspots/ammo, and how to aim, mobility and gun handling matter more than armor ever will. None of the tanks listed have any problems penning and 1 shotting any of these tanks, so being in a 4km reverse tractor with 5 degrees of gun depression and worse turret rotation/targeting than everything else is extremely suboptimal.

19

3 spawns per player.

20

Oh mb, same difference

Iiiiii’m thinking of Squadron Battles, I think