CookieRun OvenBreak to host esports world championship in 2025

Mobile platform game CookieRun OvenBreak is set to host its first-ever esports world championship later this month.

The game’s developer, Devsisters, revealed more details surrounding the 2025 World Championships through its recently released esports website.

Set to commence September 20th with regional preliminaries, this isn’t the first time the mobile game has hosted esports events. Other competitions include the 2024 CookieRun Tournament and 2025 CookieRun Global Invitational.

Players qualified through the two Grand Champions Leagues, the Candlelight and Lime Seasons, by securing a place in the top eight on the Rank Points leader board.

Participating players will start in the Quarterfinals and be split into four divisions called the Regional Preliminaries. This includes Glacier, Ocean, Plains, and Desert, with eight competitors each in a round robin format.

The top two teams from each group will then play in the Semi-Finals, with the two victors facing off to decide the winner of the Regional Preliminaries.

The regional winners will then play offline in the World Championship. This event will take place in Seoul, South Korea, and will follow the same format to determine the best player in the world.

There will be eight maps in play throughout the 2025 World Championship:

The World Championship is setting up to be the biggest event so far in the game’s 2025 esports roadmap. The mobile esports event will take place across several stages, from the Regional preliminaries to the LAN event in South Korea.

The international competition for CookieRun OvenBreak will take place in the span of just over five weeks, concluding with the World Championship Finals on October 26th.

Here is the full schedule for the CookieRun OvenBreak World Championship:

There will be a $17,000 (~£12,650) prize pool up for grabs, with first place claiming the lion’s share at $10,000 (~£7,440), second earning $5,000 (~£3,720), and third receiving $2,000 (~£1,488).

Fans can also take part in the CookieRun OvenBreak World Championship in more ways than just spectating.

There will be event missions available to complete during the Regional Preliminaries, allowing fans to collect mission points to help ‘cheer on’ contenders. Exclusive rewards are also available in the World Championship Finals prediction event, where prediction winners will earn points to exchange at the in-game shop. Finally, all viewers who tune into the World Championships live can claim special tokens.

Ticket information for the World Championship LAN event in South Korea will be available on September 25th, 2025 through the official World Championship esports website.