Written by: Yunil Ghimire - 24008, Grade X
Posted on: 04 May, 2021
The Pubg Mobile Global Championship started from November 24th, 2020 to January 26th, 2021. 24 best teams from around the globe were qualified and invited for the competition. After the qualification three players were tested positive for Coronavirus and that's why the finale was not played in Coca Cola Arena but all the players were isolated and played on a dedicated network and because of this there was some technical problem and that's why after the first game of finale on January 21st all the matches were postponed until January 24th and the finale was resumed.
As for the format the league stage was started from November 24th to December 20th ,2020.There were 24 teams in the league stage which was divided into 3 groups. The league stage lasted for four weeks with two stages. One stage was Weekend and another was Super weekend. On the weekend there was a round-robin format where 12 matches were played each week where each team played eight matches in a week on every Tuesday and Wednesday. On the super weekend there was Single lobby format where they played 15 matches every week with 16 teams in a week on every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. After the points of each super weekend are combined the top 16 teams who got the most points were qualified for the finals. The finals were started from January 21st to January 26th, 2021. The finals were played in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and also a Nepali team qualified for the finals and their team name was Abrupt Slayers (ASL) . In the league finale 29 games were going to be played. The points were distributed like 1 point per one kill and the winner of each game got 15 points 2nd placed team will get 12 point 3rd will get 10 point 4th gets 8 point 5th get 6 point 6th get 4 point 7th get 2 point and from 8 to 12th get 1 point and 13th to 16th placed team get 0 point. The prize pool of PMGC was 1.2 million US Dollar. Teams who were in athe finals were Bigetron RA (Indonesia), Futbolist (Turkey), Four Angry Men (China), Nova Esports (China), Aerowolf LIMAX (Indonesia), Secret Jin (Thailand), RRQ Athena (Thailand), POWERR888 KPS (Thailand), Team Secret (Malaysia), Alpha 7 eSports (Brazil), Natus Vincere (Ukraine/Russia), Konina Power (CIS/Kazakhstan), Z3US Esports (Mongolia), A1 Esports (Bangladesh), Abrupt Slayer (Nepal) and Klas Digital Athletics (Turkey). The Pubg Mobile Global Championship was won by Nova Esports by total points by 319 and won $700,000, second place was Four angry Men by 294 points and won $200,000, 3rd was Zeus Esports and won $ 100,000, 4th team was Natus Vincere and won $40,000 by 241 points, 5th team was Bigetron and won $25,000 6th was KoninaPower by 239 points and won $20,000, 7th was Team Secret and won $17,000, 8th was Klas Digital Athletics by 221 points and won $15,000,9th was A7 eSports by 214 points and won $12,000, 10th was Secret Jin by 194 points and won $11,000, 11th, 12th , 13th teams were RRQ Athena by 180 points , Futbolist by 178 points and Aerowolf LIMAX by 161 points and this three teams won $10,000 and 14th , 15th , 16th teams were POWER888 KPS by 155 points , A1 eSports by 146 points and Abrupt Slayer by 128 points and these three teams won $5,000. Even though Nepai team Abrupt Slayer didn’t win the tournament but have won out heart by going to this platform and coming home with 5,000 USD.
