Tencent Games and PUBG Corp have announced that they will be hosting a huge tournament later this year based on PUBG mobile. This is a great chance for gamers out there to win a huge amount of prize money.
The new tournament is being called ‘PUBG Mobile Star Challenge’ and it has a nice huge prize pool of $600,000. The tournament is open to people living in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Japan/Korea and China. You can read more in the press release posted below.
The ‘PUBG MOBILE STAR CHALLENGE’ with title sponsorship of Samsung Galaxy Note9 is bringing celebrities, professional gamers, and internet personalities together for the first-ever championship series. Also, PUBG MOBILE is now available to be downloaded in Samsung Galaxy Apps. To participate, a player must have more than 1,000 fans or followers across specified streaming platforms but can form a squad of up to three other players with no requirements. Participants registration already ended in Sept. 10 and we received more than 15,000 teams applied for qualification to PMSC. Full details can be found here.
The top 20 teams from each of the six regions will move on to the qualifier rounds of the ‘PUBG MOBILE STAR CHALLENGE,’ and then to the global finals. Global and regional winners will split the $600,000 prize pool as follows:
- Global Final Champion: $200,000 USD
- Runner-up: $100,000 USD
- 3rd Place: $50,000 USD
- Regional Final Champion: $20,000 USD
- Regional Runner-up: $15,000 USD
- 3rd Place: $10,000 USD
In addition to cash prizes, winners will become an official PUBG MOBILE partnered content creator, gaining access to promotional resources for streaming PUBG MOBILE.
You can also check out the video posted below in order to know more details about this big tournament. Originally released in 2017 for the PC, PUBG has become a worldwide phenomenon by introducing people to the Battle Royale genre. Because of PUBG, we now have Fortnite and Black Ops 4’s Blackout mode.