With the close of PCS4 Week 2, we’re 66% of the way into finding our new regional Champions! Hopefully, you’re on your way to redeeming stylish PCS4 skins in-game, too. The Pick’Em Challenge is open until June 24th at 2am PDT / 6pm KST. You can start claiming rewards on June 29th until July 13th, 7pm PST / 11am KST. Who’s got their eye on that fresh PCS4 pan?!
Heading into PCS4 Week 3, each region continues to focus on stacking Chicken Dinners - a crucial step to claiming the Championship. Teams must master both strategies in order to fill up on the Chicken Dinner takings in their region! At the end of 36 matches, the team with the most cash per region is crowned Champion! Will we see Americas’ Soniqs take 3 back-to-back PCS Championships? Will Buriram United Esports be APAC’s first back-to-back PCS team?!
There’s plenty to be resolved in PCS4 - from winning teams to the Chicken Challenge to PCS4 “All PCS” team and more! Which region are you tuning into this week?
PCS4 Week 2
In PCS4, the Top 8 teams in a region are awarded cash prizes at the end of their 12 matches per week. The cash is nice but positioning on the overall leaderboard is the goal if teams want to score coveted PGC Points. Stay tuned to see which teams can go the distance!
There’s plenty that happened in PCS4 Week 2. Let’s review each region’s overall current Prize Ranking and match day highlights before we fully send it into the final PCS4 weekend! PCS4 Week 3 starts on June 24th-June 25th with APAC and the Americas, and June 26th-June 27th for Asia and Europe.
APAC
At the end of PCS4 APAC Week 2, the Oceania region favorite FURY lost their lead to the PCS3 APAC Championship team Buriram United Esports! These two teams are familiar with the regional crown and are hungry to claim another circuit of PCS APAC street cred. An upcoming $20,000 first-place win in Week 3 from FURY, ArkAngel Predator, Sharper Esports, or Attack All Around could dismantle Buriram United Esports efforts! Only 12 more matches will determine the PCS4 APAC outcome!
PCS4 APAC Week 2 started slow for our forerunners as FURY and Buriram United Esports got wiped in the Match 1 midgame. At the end of the tide-setting first match, BN United, ArkAngel Predator, Sharper Esport, and The Colony PH took the stage. AAP scored the first Chicken Dinner of the weekend and would end up in 2nd place on the PCS4 APAC Leaderboard in Week 2 Day 1. Teams to collect Chicken Dinners include Daytrade Gaming, ArkAngel Predator, Fury, Attack All around, Sharper Esport, and Team No1.
Buriram United Esports must’ve felt the pressure heading into Week 2 Day 2 - no WWCD and 29 kills. In Match 1 and Match 5 though, Buriram United Esports snagged the Chicken Dinner and their kill count rocketed them to the top of the leaderboards! FURY was the only team who could dethrone them, but in Match 6 lost it all to Team Bliss’s first PCS4 APAC Week 2 win!
Americas
The Americas region came out with guns blazing, and it seems all teams have eyes set on dismantling the Soniqs. It’s a good strategy in theory if only teams could get close enough to Shrimzy, M1ME, hwinn, and TGLTN to deal the damage. At the end of Week 2, Soniqs scooped another $20,000 and are leading the lobby with their awarded prize pool. Let’s be honest here, Soniqs are in a prime position to take the PCS4 Americas Championship unless some serious hot drops target the Soniqs AND Oath takes home a BIG first place win!
It’s a bloodbath as the teams third party through Match 1. The Soniqs counter aggressors and take it to the end for a 17-kill WWCD in the first of twelve matches. Dignitas comes back with a vengeance in Match 2 after capitalizing on a crucial Spacestation Gaming and Soniqs encounter. eUnited rises from the Week 1 ashes in Week 2, grabbing their first WWCD in Match 3! In the lobby, you can’t help but notice the damage output coming from Trogloditas while their consistency nets them a Match 4 win. Trogloditas places in Top 2 in Match 5 but loses it to 303 Esports - an insane matchup. Before you know it, TSM is in the mix with a Match 6 win, leaving for all unique Chicken Dinner winners in PCS4 Americas Week 2 Day 1. With the W, TSM leaps into first ahead of Soniqs by 3 kills!
What happens during PCS4 Americas Week 2 Day 2 is incredible. By Match 11 of 12, there were 10 Chicken Dinner winners! It’s anyone’s game! Oath manages to be the first team to squeeze TWO Chicken Dinners, placing themselves in the top spot. The final match leaves for a cause to celebrate as the Soniqs magically turn the lobby on its side and clutch the final WWCD of the Weekend. Yes, it’s true - the Soniqs are back-to-back PCS4 Americas Weekly Winners.
Asia
PCS4 Asia is by far the most hotly contested region! Previous Week 1 Weekly Winner, KAIXIN E-Sports is kicked to second place - tying with Multi Circle Gaming and dropping GPS Ghibili to fourth place on the Prize Ranking leaderboard. In the end, Petrichor Road’s combined earnings from Week 1 and Week 2 outlast the dangerous teams in the lobby. If GPS Ghibli’s consistency shows up in Week 3, they can easily stack enough cash to slide into the PCS4 Asia Championship slot! The race is TOO CLOSE between our current Top 6 teams.
Petrichor Road made it clear that they were in it for the WIN as they snagged the first Chicken Dinner of the day. Multi Circle Gaming, DWG KIA, and T1 follow up on Chicken Dinners as drive-bys, tactical rotations, and triple kills pepper the kill feed. Petrichor Road makes their move in Match 5 by claiming their second Chicken Dinner - amping up team into high gear. GPS Ghibli is down but not out as they claim the final WWCD of PCS4 Asia Week 2 Day 1.
Early on Day 2, Petrichor Road claimed their 3rd Chicken Dinner of the Week in the second match behind a triumphant DWG KIA. As Petrichor Road focuses on keeping their kill count high, 4AM pulls off the back-to-back WWCD! T1 and MCG claim their second dinners of the week, too.
Europe
The Prize Ranking leaderboard in the PCS4 Europe Grand Final has been shaken to the core, but Virtus.pro still holds the lead! In its current iteration, the Prize Rank has THREE currently active ties, leaving for an event-filled PCS4 Europe Week 3. The final 12 matches will make it or break it for these teams. Virtus.pro needs virtually another top placement if they want to hang onto that Prize Rank lead!
The Week 2 Day 1 leaderboard had AfterAlt at the top with 2 Chicken Dinners and 28 kills! Teams to secure the other coveted Chicken Dinners - ENCE, Virtus.pro, Redline, and Team Liquid, seemed to be dancing a fine line on the kill count. Contrary to Week 1, FIVE and Team Liquid avoided the hot drops in Week 2 Day 1, but the tacticality in this lobby consistently hurt teams in the lead!
On Day 2, Heroic took a big lead thanks to their kill advantage on a WWCD. Teams taking the aggressive approach were sometimes denied, but for FaZe Clan, their offensive got them the next (much needed) Chicken Dinner! Heroic and AfterAlt traded wins and top spots on the leaderboard before BigBossLayf and SKADE crept up the standings thanks to their Chicken Dinners! AfterAlt was the only team to secure 3 wins, thus winning the $20,000 prize pool - highlighting the importance of a hungry stomach in PCS4!
PCS4 Week 2 PEPS+
PEPS+ highlights players and teams in the lobby post-event, ranking players against each other in battle typing and statistics. It’s the PUBG devs way of sharing playstyles, patterns, and more with the PUBG Esports fans!
We’re taking a different approach this week and highlighting the best performing players from PCS4 Week 2 Weekly Winning teams AND best performing players in the Week 2 lobby. Enjoy!
PEPS+ APAC Week 2 Weekly Winner Standout Player - Noardra
The PCS3 Champion team Buriram United Esports puts down the damage to secure the kill time and time again. In PCS4 Week 2, we saw Noardra avenge his whole team in a 1v4 and demolish countless drive-bys. Noardra is effective regardless of distance, playing a balance in defensive and offensive, and relying HEAVILY on being a clutch fragger, hence the low survival rating. In Week 2, they’re mostly leaning into finishing the kill to get the team the best chances of success in the end game!
PCS4 APAC Week 2 - Top Overall Player - Fludd
FURY players are back to back on the Top Overall Player as Fludd replaces Ykikamucow in PCS4 APAC Week 2! Compared to the lobby, Fludd scored solid 90s across the board overwhelming players on the other side of the barrel. Absolutely mad in the damage output role, Fludd also brings high survivability!
PEPS+ Americas Week 2 Weekly Winner Standout Player - TGLTN
It’s no surprise that the Soniqs’ TGLTN train keeps on pushing ahead. What are these guys eating? In PCS4 Americas Grand Final Week 2, TGLTN excels in their “team play,” defined as “Variables based on supporting and reviving teammates.” But wait - there’s more as Tactics, Firepower, Potential, Compatibility and Finishing score HIGH on the PEPS+ charts.
PCS4 Americas Grand Final Week 1 - Top Overall Player - Killdemo
Let’s GO! LATAM’s Killdemo from Trogloditas steals the Week 2 PCS4 Americas show! Killdemo dominated in their encounters through the weekend - with a 96 in tactics and combatability. In the Chicken Dinner format, tactics (or “a player's ability to play around circles and use the map to their advantage,”) is KEY! It’s worth noting that Combatability is defined as, “Us[ing] variables like damage, kills, and knocks to give a more traditional ‘deadly’ rating.”
PEPS+ Asia Week 2 Weekly Winner Standout and Top Overall Player - Myl
Petrichor Road fought hard for their Week 2 Weekly Winner top spot and Myl seems to be a driving factor in the team’s performance this week! Myl outperformed Petrichor Road, but also the whole lobby as the PCS4 Asia Top Overall Player!
Survival and Team Play, arguably the two important PEPS+ categories, propelled them to the top! In PEPS+, Survival is “Derived from multiple stats related to a player's time surviving, health recovered in matches.”
Myl plays an outward-oriented circle, tight knit to the squad, using smokes effectively to take the position and grab the kill! Overall, Myl is explosive in the Battlegrounds (especially on Miramar).
PEPS+ Europe Week 2 Weekly Winner Standout Player - boggar_T
AfterAlt is making a name for themselves as boggar_T leads the team in the PEPS+. Striking fiercely on Erangel and boasting a stead compatibility and potential playstyle, boggar_T is usually outside circle on position and loving the utility items.
PCS4 Europe Grand Final Week 2 - Top Overall Player - xmpl
NAVI’s xmpl is the first back-to-back player in any PEPS+ region! Someone stop this mad lad. Staring down the barrel of xmpl’s weapon is not to be taken lightly with a 100 in Firepower, Finishing, and Combatability. Basically, you have no chance in a 1v1 even as xmpl plays the center, apart from teammates, and on the offensive!