#GamingBytes: All about the PUBG Mobile Star Challenge
PUBG Mobile is one of the most popular mobile games that draws new players every day. To further increase its outreach, Tencent and PUBG Corp. have recently announced a global eSports tournament. It is being called the Star Challenge. Having already amassed over 100 million downloads, this tournament will help to grow audience, promote the game and get sponsors. Read all about it.
Can you step up to the challenge?
The Star Challenge eSports tournament will be a global event including professional gamers, internet celebrities, and personalities. They will bring their own teams and competition is expected to be lethal. The finals will be held in Dubai at the end of this year. The tourney has be a total prize pool of $600,000. Notably, the tournament signifies a rise in competitive mobile gaming.
The rules of the game
The Star Challenge will begin in six regions including Asia, Europe, China, Japan and Korea, South America, and North America. After the teams battle it out at the regional stages, top 20 teams will be selected to compete in the global finals. Of the total $600,000 prize pool, $200,000 will go to the winning team and $100,000 to the runner-up.
The significance of a global PUBG Mobile tournament
While PUBG had popularized the 'Battle Royale' genre, the mobile version expanded the audience outreach of the game. The growing eSports market could be worth $906 million this year. Despite this, most eSports tournaments in the US do not focus on mobile gaming, unlike Asia. This tournament could make mobile gaming stand out there and tap into the Asian market's competitive mobile gaming trend.
The importance of eSports in context
The competitive gaming scene has become so mainstream in today's world that eSports tournaments are broadcast on ESPN. Notably, Tyler Blevins, known as Ninja the popular Fortnite streamer, will be the first professional gamer to appear on the cover of ESPN: The Magazine.
