Riot Games' has teamed up with Paytm First Games to launch a Teamfight Tactics tournament in India. The tournament will be for the mobile variant of Riot's popular auto-battler, based on the auto-chess games that took the world by storm early last year. You can already register for the tournament which will take place between 17 to 21 June with a prize pool of INR 75,000 or $1000.
Find the complete Press Release below.
PAYTM FIRST GAMES TEAMS UP WITH RIOT GAMES INDIA TO LAUNCH TEAMFIGHT TACTICS TOURNAMENT
512 players will compete for the chance at a prize pool of $1,000 (INR 75,000)
INDIA – June 9, 2020 – Paytm First Games, the country’s leading gaming destination has today announced that it has teamed up with the globally renowned developer and publisher Riot Games to organize the region's first Teamfight Tactics mobile tournament. The mobile gaming tournament will be held from 17th to 21st June, and 512 Indian gamers will compete to win a prize pool of Rs. 75,000/- in this first iteration of the tournament. To participate in the tournament, gaming enthusiasts across the country will be able to register from 9th June onwards on Paytm First Games app. This championship will be held online and will use multiple elimination formats depending upon the round.
Sudhanshu Gupta, COO, Paytm First Games said, "We continue to stay committed to our mission of bringing world-class gaming experience to our users and this partnership will help us to move a step ahead in this direction. This Teamfight Tactics tournament will be the biggest one ever organized in India in terms of prize money and participation. We are going to live with it in the next xx days and hope to expand our partnership with Riot in the near future."
Riot Games South Asia’s Publishing Head, Sukamal Pegu said, "Namaste India. We are extremely proud to partner with PFG to bring TFTm to where it matters most to us at Riot, which is our players. We have great plans for India considering that we have just started our journey on mobile this year. Our relationship with India is just starting and we will work hard to constantly delight our fans and players here."
Teamfight Tactics is an eight person free-for-all strategy game where players combine LoL champions and items in different formations to defeat the seven other players in a match. As the leading game in the auto-battler genre, players tactically place an army of characters on a grid-shaped game board for a last-player-standing automated battle. Since launching in 2019, Teamfight Tactics has emerged as the top contender in the genre, with 80M players globally since its launch, providing a fun and deep chess-like gameplay experience for all types of players now on multiple platforms.
ABOUT RIOT GAMES
Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, to worldwide acclaim. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports.
As League enters its second decade, Riot continues to evolve the game while delivering new experiences to players with Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, League of Legends: Wild Rift, and multiple work-in-progress titles. Riot is also building the world of Runeterra through multimedia projects across music, comic books, board games, and the upcoming animated series Arcane.
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