Philippines-based web3 gaming group YGG has partnered with Parallel Studios on a $100,000 prize pool match for Parallel TCG.
Set to happen reside throughout YGG Play Summit in Manila on Nineteenth-Twenty third November 2024, the match contains two on-line qualifiers, that are open to gamers from all around the globe. From the 2 128-player qualifiers, a complete of 16 gamers will advance to the reside match. This can 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, shall be performed through the first day. The highest 8 members going by means of on the second day qualify for the ultimate match. Nevertheless, 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 ready for 12-Thirteenth October, adopted by the second on 26-Twenty seventh October.
As a part of the partnership, distinguished 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 all the time been passionate concerning the video games they play, and lots of search for alternatives to check their talent at a high-stakes aggressive degree,” 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 chance to deliver a novel expertise to present gamers and newcomers,” stated Parallel TCG co-founder Kalos. “We will emulate that feeling of taking part in with different individuals in a card store whereas additionally exhibiting them the benefits that web3 affords by means of Parallel TCG.”
Alongside the match, the YGG Play Summit may even function a reside GAM3 Awards ceremony, a cosplay competitors, a one-day convention, and reside demos and tournaments of essentially the most distinguished web3 video games.
