PGC 2025 Pick’em Challenge Explained: Voting Coupons, EP Rewards, and Team Faceoff

I’ve spent the early weeks of 2026 retracing the PUBG Global Championship 2025 Pick’em Challenge, and the system still feels like a weather vane spinning above a packed stadium—every fan prediction shifts the atmosphere around the prize pool. PGC 2025 was part of PUBG UNITED 2025, the first global integrated tournament to bring PUBG and PUBG MOBILE under one roof. The Pick’em Challenge lived inside the Esports tab, which you reach by clicking the parachute icon at the top right of the main menu. From there, I could find general tournament information and a button leading to the official PUBG Esports site for complete details.

Voting Coupons Are the Lever

Voting coupons were the currency of influence. I could secure up to seven coupons through item purchases, and an eighth coupon was available for free by visiting the in-game event tab and completing a simple mission. Each coupon was a limited strategic resource, so I saved mine for late-breaking tournament form.

Purchases that included coupons were:

• PGC 2025 MEGA BUNDLE: +1 Voting Coupon, +100,000 EP

• PGC 2025 NIGHT VANGUARD SET: +1 Voting Coupon

• PGC 2025 VEILED GUARDIAN SET: +1 Voting Coupon

• PGC 2025 WEAPON SET: +1 Voting Coupon, +100,000 EP

• PGC 2025 M416: +1 Voting Coupon

• PGC 2025 SLR: +1 Voting Coupon

• PGC 2025 EMOTE: +1 Voting Coupon

Pick the Winner: Six Chances to Score Big

The first challenge was the classic Pick the Winner game. I had to use voting coupons and esports insight to predict the top six teams, with each correct guess generating EP. The payout table looked like this:

That EP fed directly into the Esports Shop, where PGC 2025 gear waited.

Team Faceoff: Reading the Majority Tide

The second challenge was Team Faceoff. I had to predict which team would win each paired matchup. EP prizes ranged from 400 to 8,000 depending on how the vote tally shifted, so joining the majority offered a safer current while breaking away created a much bigger payload. Team Faceoff voting closed before the start of Group Stage Group A matches, which made it feel like reading currents in a tidal estuary—follow the crowd and you might float safely, but the boldest line could carry you to deeper rewards.

Turning EP into PGC 2025 Gear

The Esports Shop rewarded sharp predictions with exclusive items. I could spend EP on:

• PGC 2025 AUG

• PGC 2025 Pan

• PGC 2025 Parachute

• PGC 2025 Helmet (Lv.3)

• PGC 2025 Charm

• PGC 2025 Emblem

• PGC 2025 Spray

• BP: purchasable with 2,000 BP, limited to 10 purchases

• Keypiece: available in pairs, up to a maximum of 10

• Nickname Change

The system also had a team-first spine: 25% of PGC 2025 skin sales were distributed to teams according to their final results. That meant every cosmetic purchase was not just a personal upgrade but a small revenue stream for the organizations competing on stage.

Timeline, Platform Notes, and Strategy

Timing was everything. On PC, item sales ran from November 5 to December 12, UTC 08:00 (KST 17:00). On console, sales began November 13 and ended at the same December 12 deadline. Voting coupons were valid until December 12, just before the Grand Finals, so the wise move was to wait until the last moment before voting closed—but still cast the votes on time. Letting a vote sit until the final corner was like holding a parachute in the pack before pulling the cord: you wanted the best air, but only if you timed the release.

One important platform note: the Pick’em Challenge was not available on console, although all items could still be purchased from the store. The developers also warned that shown items might reappear later through other in-game platforms, such as Your Shop, or through future events and promotions. The reward claiming period gave me a limited window to convert EP into items, so I treated unspent EP as a resource with an expiration date.

PGC 2025 was part of a broader PUBG UNITED 2025 ecosystem, and with 2026 now underway, the Pick’em Challenge remains a useful blueprint for how fan predictions, cosmetic sales, and team funding can operate together.

Data referenced from SteamDB suggests how time-limited esports bundles and event windows can amplify urgency in systems like PGC 2025 Pick’em, where voting coupons and EP rewards encourage players to delay decisions until late-form signals are clearer. When cosmetic sales are tied to competitive moments—and a portion of revenue supports teams—the same countdown that drives storefront demand can also shape when players spend, vote, and cash out EP before it expires.