{"id":37420,"date":"2026-06-19T12:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/?p=37420"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:07:53","slug":"ewc-level-up-season-2-prime-video-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/ewc-level-up-season-2-prime-video-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Esports World Cup: Level Up Season 2 launches on Prime Video June 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Esports World Cup<\/a> documentary series Level Up returns for its second season on June 26, with all five episodes releasing the same day exclusively on Prime Video. The series continues to document the competitive and personal journeys shaped by the Esports World Cup<\/a> ecosystem, focusing on players, Clubs, and families across multiple esports titles.<\/p>\n

Produced by This Machine and directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler, Season 2 revisits the 2025 Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where players competed for a reported $70 million prize pool. The series frames the event not only as a competitive battleground, but as a global stage where careers, reputations, and personal trajectories are defined in real time.<\/p>\n

Match environment and narrative focus<\/h4>\n

Season 2 of Level Up centers on the pressure points of elite esports competition, capturing the stakes behind every match at the Esports World Cup.<\/p>\n

The docuseries follows several high-profile figures across different titles, including VALORANT, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Counter-Strike 2, and Chess. It highlights how individual performances, team dynamics, and organizational pressure shape outcomes inside one of the world\u2019s largest esports tournaments.<\/p>\n

Ralf Reichert, CEO of the Esports Foundation, said the series reflects the broader intent of the EWC ecosystem, emphasizing that the event creates \u201cthe stage: the best games, the best Clubs, the best players, life-changing stakes and moments that bring together a global gaming community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Featured players and storylines<\/h4>\n

The new season expands its player-driven storytelling with several key competitive figures from VALORANT esports scene, Counter-Strike 2 esports scene, and other global competitive titles.<\/p>\n

Jake \u201cBoaster\u201d Howlett (Fnatic, VALORANT) serves as the title\u2019s debut storyline competitor, while Magnus Carlsen (Team Liquid, Chess) navigates competitive dominance in a new esports context. Xiao Hai (KuaiShou Gaming, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves) balances legacy and family life, and Vivi \u201cVivian\u201d Indrawaty (Team Vitality, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang) competes under high-pressure conditions.<\/p>\n

Other featured figures include Garidmagnai \u201cbLitz\u201d Byambasuren (The Mongolz, Counter-Strike 2) leading a grassroots rise to international contention, Kasimili \u201cSoka\u201d Tongamoa (Team Falcons, Call of Duty: Warzone) dealing with rivalry and competitive instability, and coach Rodel “ArSy” Cruz (Team Liquid, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang) offering a behind-the-scenes coaching perspective.<\/p>\n

The series also follows production across Riyadh and international locations, capturing both tournament pressure and off-stage environments that shape player performance across the global esports ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Esports ecosystem and cultural scale<\/h4>\n

Beyond competition, Level Up Season 2 highlights the expanding cultural footprint of the Esports World Cup. The series includes appearances and moments involving global figures such as Post Malone, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lando Norris, Ronaldo Nazario, Kak\u00e1, Tony Hawk, and Nick Kyrgios, underscoring esports\u2019 crossover into mainstream entertainment and sport.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Esports World Cup reportedly reached 750 million viewers, generated 350 million hours watched, and peaked at nearly 8 million concurrent viewers during League of Legends competition. The event featured over 2,000 players from around 100 countries across 24 games and 25 tournaments.<\/p>\n

As Level Up Season 2 goes live, it reinforces the EWC\u2019s positioning not just as a tournament series, but as a long-form narrative ecosystem built around players, performance, and global esports culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Esports World Cup documentary series Level Up returns for its second season on June 26, with all five episodes releasing the same day exclusively on Prime Video. The series continues to document the competitive and personal journeys shaped by the Esports World Cup ecosystem, focusing on players, Clubs, and families across multiple esports titles….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":37421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,18],"tags":[22498,28062,14376,3296,28061,28060,525,3582,28063,22496],"class_list":["post-37420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esports","category-gaming","tag-counter-strike-2","tag-esports-documentary","tag-esports-storytelling","tag-esports-world-cup","tag-ewc-2025","tag-level-up-season-2","tag-mobile-legends-bang-bang","tag-prime-video","tag-r-j-cutler","tag-valorant-esports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37422,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37420\/revisions\/37422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}