Popular Esports Tournaments

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PUBG Mobile holds a lot of esports tournaments every year. Here the five most popular esports events of this game community with huge prize pools.

Overwatch World Cup: A prototype Overwatch esports tournament organized by Blizzard Entertainment, it ran for two series in 2016 and 2017 as part of the BlizzCon convention at the Anaheim Convention Center. It pitted the world’s best Overwatch teams against each other in a 32 team round-robin group stages, with a 8 team single-elimination playoff structure. EVO is the shortened form of the Evolution Championship Series. It is a large tournament, in fact, the largest where esports fighting teams from all over the world gather to compete. EVO 2020 has on offer 9 supported titles which include amongst others, Street Fighter 5, Super Smash Bros Ultimate and Tekken. Overwatch World Cup.

Another success story and one of the most popular eSports tournaments is The International. The International was first held in 2011 with an accumulated prize pool of 1.6 million USD. Seven years later the number has dramatically bulged up to 25.3 billion USD and hence turned The International 2018 into the largest tournament in eSports history.

#1. PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC)

PMGC is the biggest esports tournament for the PUBG Mobile community. PUBG Mobile pro players and teams from all over the world can compete to be qualified for the final stage. Last year, this esports event attracted a lot of viewers. It made a record of 38 lakh peak viewers in the last tournament, including viewers on NimoTV.

PUBG Mobile players and fans from all over the world watched this tournament. The prize pool of League Stage is about INR 5.6 Crore in each region. Besides, the prize pool of the final stage is over INR 8.7 Crore.

#2. PUBG Mobile World League (PMWL)

PMWL is also a popular PUBG Mobile tournament with a high view count and a great prize pool. In India, the view count reached the peak of 449k viewers. Moreover, the view peak reached 11 lakh. It includes two divisions in Western and Eastern areas. The prize pool in each division is about INR 3.1 Crore.

#3. PUBG Mobile Club Open Spring Split Global Finals

PUBG Mobile Club Open (PMCO) has two splits in the spring and fall. The Global Stage is the most-viewed event in this big tournament. Its live viewer count peaked at 5.69 lakh in the last season. The prize pool of this event is about INR 2.9 Crore.

#4. PUBG Mobile Club Open Fall Split Global Finals

The Global Stage of PMCO 2020 is also one of the most popular esports events of PUBG Mobile with a live view count of 5.25 lakh. However, its prize pool is bigger than that of PMCO Spring Split. The total money prize of this event is INR 3.65 Crore.

#5. PUBG Mobile Pro League SEA Fall

Another popular PUBG Mobile esports tournament is PMPL Sea which got a high view count of 490,874. The prize pool of this tournament is about INR 1 Crore. It took place between Oct 23th and 25th, 2020.

Local Esports Tournaments

The world of esports is evolving right before our eyes. Once operating in the margins of mainstream media, it adds high-profile events, evangelists and investors by the day. What it lacks is more world-class spaces for gamers to physically gather on a grand scale. Current facilities can be retrofitted, new developments can create an esports space from the ground up. Keep scrolling to see our concepts and built work on both fronts, but first, see the industry’s economic forecast below according to Business Insider.