Skyesports included Clash of Clans and Rainbow Six: Siege for Skyesports Grandslam tournament. Tournament for Rainbow Six: Siege is commencing from 10 June and will go on till 14 June, whereas Clash of Clans will begin from 19 June and will end by 21 June.
Rainbow Six: Siege follows an invitational only format where some of the teams in India are invited to participate.
Here is the team list:
Quantum G1
Reckoning Esports
SangFroid Esports
Skybound eSports
SunAsia Esports
TAMIL SQUAD
Team Super
Virtual 5 e-Sports
XLR8 gaming
Decoy Dreams
eSamurai R6: Siege
HEXAGON Esports
KIRA Esports
LevelZero Esports
Never Diamonds
Phoenix
Clash of Clans has seen a response with TH level 13, 120+ teams registered for the Grandslam. The prize pool for Clash of Clans will be Rs.1,00,000 and for Rainbow Six: Siege it will be Rs. 50,000.
Chennai based esports company, Skyesports, has entered into a partnership with game streaming and esports platform – Loco to bring gaming and esports ‘Skyesports Grandslam’. The month-long gaming tournament will stream live on LOCO and will also be available on Skyesports YouTube channel with live commentary available in Hindi and Tamil.
The tournaments will stream every week offering a total prize pool of Rs. 5,00,000 across various titles such as PUBG, Brawlstars, Clash of Clans, Rainbow Six Siege, and more. The tournament showcased esports titles such as PUBG Mobile along with participation from teams like Soul, Fnatic, TSM-Entity, Megastars, 8Bit, Orange Rock, Team Tamilas among others.
Skyesports and Loco recently concluded a week-long tournament for some popular titles like PUBG and Brawlstars where some of the top teams across India in these games participated in the event. PUBG saw Team IND win the tournament after trailing behind in the first two days of the tournament. Brawlstars saw a registration with 147 teams registering for this event. ODA Elites, the 2x ESL India champions were crowned champions in Skyesports Grandslam for Brawlstars by defeating team B2K with a score of 4-0. The content and digital marketing for the event will be handled by The Gameplay, Sky esports’ digital partner.