Philippines-based web3 gaming group YGG has partnered with Parallel Studios on a $100,000 prize pool event for Parallel TCG.
Set to happen reside throughout YGG Play Summit in Manila on Nineteenth-Twenty third November 2024, the event consists of two on-line qualifiers, that are open to gamers from all all over the world. From the 2 128-player qualifiers, a complete of 16 gamers will advance to the reside event. It will stretch throughout the four-day YGG Play Summit occasion.
As for the construction of the qualifiers, they are going to be based mostly on Parallel League factors. Seven rounds of Swiss, in a best-of-3 conquest format, might be performed in the course of the first day. The highest 8 individuals going via on the second day qualify for the ultimate event. Nonetheless, these gamers will nonetheless settle their Parallel League factors in a best-of-3 single elimination format forward of the deciding $100,000 reside occasion.
The primary qualifier is about for 12-Thirteenth October, adopted by the second on 26-Twenty seventh October.
As a part of the partnership, outstanding YGG KOLs (key opinion leaders) may even host particular Parallel TCG giveaways and promote the sport through social platforms. YGG may even make extra academic movies corresponding to deck guides for its YouTube channel.
“TCG gamers have at all times been passionate concerning the video games they play, and lots of search for alternatives to check their talent at a high-stakes aggressive stage,” commented YGG co-founder Gabby Dizon.
“Parallel is in an excellent place to have the ability to cater to those gamers, with a lot of its mechanics impressed by aggressive TCGs corresponding to Magic: the Gathering and Hearthstone. With YGG organizing these occasions, many gamers can have an opportunity at incomes their share of the $100,000 prize pool at YPS.”
“When YGG approached us for this partnership, we noticed a possibility to carry a novel expertise to present gamers and newcomers,” mentioned Parallel TCG co-founder Kalos. “We can emulate that feeling of enjoying with different folks in a card store whereas additionally exhibiting them the benefits that web3 affords via Parallel TCG.”
Alongside the event, the YGG Play Summit may even characteristic a reside GAM3 Awards ceremony, a cosplay competitors, a one-day convention, and reside demos and tournaments of essentially the most outstanding web3 video games.
