DRS Gaming and Hora Sports from Nepal are competing for the 20.6 million tournament organized for the first time in Nepal. The best four teams from the competition will qualify for the World Cup.
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20-year-old Raja Hasib of Pakistan has been in Kathmandu for the last three weeks. He has experienced that many aspects of Kathmandu are similar to cities in Pakistan. He said he found the Pashupatinath temple very attractive among the ones he visited. Similarly, Hamidullah from Uzbekistan also came to Kathmandu for about a month. Although he didn't like the food here, he said that everything else was awful.
In the e-sports field, including Raja Hasib, known as 'Crypto', and Hamidullah, known as 'Bad Boy', 1 from the Central and South Asian region including Russia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Spain, Belarus, Bahrain. A team of around 300 people including 100 players, coaches, referees and managers are currently in Kathmandu. Staying at the Fairfield Marriott Hotel in Thamel, they gather for the competition at the PMSal studio at Bhangal in Budhanilkanth throughout the day. The number of viewers of 'PUBG Mobile Super League (PMSL) - Central and South Asia (CSA) Spring 2024', which is broadcast live from
studio every day on various YouTube channels, is remarkable. On Thursday, the number of people who watched the live streaming of the first match of the final round only from PUBG Mobile e-Sports South Asia channel exceeded 17 thousand. At seven o'clock in the evening, the same game was watched live by 27,000 people on 'CR Seven Hour' channel.
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Crafton, Level Infinite and Nodwing Gaming jointly organized this competition is a prestigious e-sports event in Central and South Asia. Considered as a qualifying point for participation in the PUBG World Cup, this Super League level tournament pits participants from regional tournaments against each other. DRS Gaming and Hora Sports from Nepal are participating in this event for the first time in Nepal.
The PMSal CSA-2024 tournament started on June 9 and ended on June 27. Out of the total 20 groups, 16 groups reached the finals. The final match starts on Thursday and ends on Saturday. The total prize money of this tournament is 2 lakh US dollars (Rs 26 million). "Rather than the cash prize, everyone's attention is focused on that because the best four groups of this competition will be able to go to the World Cup," Himson Gurung, a player of the Nepali PUBG group Hor E-Sports, said, "Our goal is also to play the PUBG Mobile World Cup and the PUBG Mobile Global Championship." Will be able to play in the survival stage of 'Pubji Mobile World Cup-2024'.
The grand finale, which will last for three days, will decide which groups from Central and South Asia will reach the PUBG Mobile World Cup to be held next month in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Therefore, players are trying to be in the top five. The total prize money of the PUBG Mobile World Cup is 3 million US dollars i.e. about 40 million rupees. Mongolia's group 'Four Miracle Vibes' was the first with the highest 57 bonus points in the ongoing league stage match in Nepal. The
group received 7,000 dollars (about 9.5 million rupees) in prize money. "Rukh eSports" from Kazakhstan, who came in second place with a total of 53 bon points, won $5,000. The 'Madbulls' of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) who presented attractive sportsmanship are third in the group points table. Nepal's DRS Gaming was fourth and Mongolia's IHC E-Sports was fifth in the league stage.
Yousef 'Ghost', a member of the 'IAT' group, who has won the national level PUBG Mobile Pro-League held annually in Pakistan, is currently competing in the competition held by the 'Rthrgy' group. Gost, who has represented Pakistan three times in the PUBG World Cup, says there is a good e-sports atmosphere in Nepal. "Many of the young people here have been fans of e-Sports," he told Kantipur, "When people go out on the street, they recognize PUBG players and come to talk to them." In Pakistan, PUBG doesn't have this kind of atmosphere, it's not even popular.'
In Uzbekistan, Hamidullah said that many sports groups are being formed because the government encourages PUBG players. He from the 'Everest Gaming' group, which was selected in the best 16 from the league stage, said that the government has arranged for the players to be tested at alternative times if they go abroad to participate in such competitions or if there is an examination at school during the competition held in the country. "The government has been facilitating us in the government process from arranging the documents to go to the competition," he said.
Sameer Gurung, Gante of the Nepali team DRS Gaming, who became the runner-up in the 2022 PUBG Mobile Global Championship, said that it is a matter of happiness that the Nepalese government has also recognized e-Sports. Reminding that in the budget speech of the next financial year, it was mentioned that an international competition of e-sports would be organized, he implemented it he held the opinion that local players will be encouraged and international players will also help in the promotion of tourism here. "I have heard that our government is doing well for e-sports," he said, adding that the budget has been allocated to this area since registration. Let's see how the implementation will be now.'
