Canadian influencer Elias "EliasN97" Nerlich will host an official FIFA tournament on December 14. He announced this on his Twitter channel. Accordingly, the "Eligella XMAS Cup" is to become the biggest FIFA offline event of the year.

"I got the license from EA to host my own offline event," Nerlich wrote on Twitter. "I'm the first creator in the world who can do that. Crazy, where all this has developed with the Eligella Cups.»

24 players will be invited to the tournament, eight more places will be played out in four qualifiers over the next few weeks.

Nerlich has been regularly hosting the so-called "Eligella Cups" on his Twitch channel for some time, where e-athletes or other content creators played for a small prize money. With the official license from developer EA, Nerlich is now allowed to significantly increase the prize money.