Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) 2022 Esports Roadmap Revealed by Krafton, Prize Pool of Rs. 6 Crores Announced

Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) will host four esports tournaments in 2022, developer Krafton announced on Thursday while revealing the 2022 esports roadmap for battle royale gaming in the country. The tournaments are supposed to bring in a prize pool of Rs. 6 crore, with Battlegrounds Mobile Pro Series 1 and Season 2 giving out the prize money of Rs. 2 crore each. The esports tournaments will kick off with a Battlegrounds Mobile Open Challenge (BMOC). Registration for the first event will open at the end of the month, the developer said.

Krafton said esports tournaments for Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) will provide domestic and international opportunities for gamers.

The four tournaments will include BMOC – Battlegrounds Mobile Open Challenge, BMPS – Battlegrounds Mobile Pro Series Season 1, BMIS – Battlegrounds Mobile India Series and BMPS – Battlegrounds Mobile Pro Series Season 2.

While the two BMPS tournaments will have Rs. 2 crore prizes each, the BMOC and BMIS events will offer cash prizes of Rs. 1 crore each.

Registration for BMOC will begin from late February, with in-game qualifiers being held around the end of March, the developer said.

“With more and more emerging talent and the exponentially growing esports ecosystem in India, we look forward to hosting these tournaments which promise to be intensely competitive and full of exciting gameplay moments,” said Minu Lee. , head of Battlegrounds Mobile India, Krafton, in a statement. “We are committed to providing a global platform for these players to showcase and exploit their skills.”

Ahead of BGMI’s launch in July 2021, Krafton pledged investments worth $100 million (about Rs 751 crore) in India to improve the local gaming, esports, as well as entertainment and entertainment industries. computing.

The developer said that last year, BGMI had over 600,000 registrations, over 200 million views and had over 4,93,000 concurrent viewers.

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