USA Baseball and NC State to host WBSC eBaseball™ Series 2025 World Finals in North Carolina
Pully, Switzerland – The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today announced that the WBSC eBaseball™ Series 2025 World Finals will take place in the United States, on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, from 8 to 9 November, 2025.
"We are ecstatic to be hosting the WBSC eBaseball™ Series World Finals this year with USA Baseball," said Cody Elsen, the Esports Program Director at the NC State University. "This event provides our students with the chance to learn in an experiential learning environment that will have long term benefits."
The World Finals comprises of three phases - Opening Round, Super Round and Finals.
The Opening Round will take place online from 31 August to 27 September and will feature up to 16 qualified players from national tournaments and online qualifiers, with eight advancing to the Super Round through a combination of automatic and performance-based criteria:
- Four (4) direct qualifiers: the winners of the USA Finals, the Global Qualifier, the Women’s Qualifier (Pre-registration is available here), and a Wild Card selected by the WBSC.
- Two (2) national tournament winners with the highest Power Rate as of 24 August 2025.
- Two (2) final qualifiers emerging from the Opening Round:
- a round-robin online competition running from 31 August to 28 September where the 10 remaining players will battle for the last two seeds available to be divided into two groups of five.
FULL OPENING ROUND REGULATIONS HERE
The Super Round and Finals - taking place at North Carolina State University from 8 to 9 November, 2025 - will showcase eight elite POWER PROS players from around the globe, vying for the title of World Champion. The final tournament format will be released at a later date.
Meanwhile, the USA Finals, taking place on 7 November, will consist of six of the best players in the United States competing for the chance to be one of the last qualifiers for the World Finals. Two players from the USA eBaseball™ Power League and the four top players from the USA Open online competition will comprise the field of six.
The WBSC eBaseball™ Series continues to grow as a global platform for digital baseball competition, providing athletes from around the world with the opportunity to be part of this growing movement, which is increasingly shaping as a global community competing for the Title of World Champion. For further updates, fans are encouraged to follow @wbscesport on Instagram and to download WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS via the Nintendo eShop or PlayStation Store.