Mobile Esports

Mobile esports have been reliably on the ascent for the past few years, especially in Asian nations like India and Thailand. While they may honestly have a reasonable approach to get up to speed to the high level PC esports scene, they actually attract huge groups and pay out large cash all things considered significant competitions.

As of late, Mobile esports have been in the features after Fortnite was eliminated from both the Apple and Android store in light of the Epic’s claims with Apple and Google. Despite being one of the most conspicuous videogames on earth, in any case, there are numerous versatile esports with a greater market pull

Some of these, most recognisably PUBG Mobile, are mobile versions of existing esports, but others are original games which take advantage of the unique platform mobile gaming provides. Below, we take a look at the biggest names, the biggest prize pools, and the biggest viewership figures mobile esports have to offer.

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BIGGEST MOBILE ESPORTS

PUBG Mobile is one of the biggest esports around, but with its new Global Championships tournament, it wants to become “bigger than League of Legends”. Lofty goals, but you can’t accuse the game’s director James Yang of dreaming small. Arena of Valor is another dominant name in the mobile games business, as are Free Fire and Clash Royale. While an outsider to the industry might immediately think of Fortnite, PUBG and Call of Duty when they think of mobile esports, it’s more that these games are mobile versions of esports. PUBG aside, they haven’t  had anywhere near the impact on the mobile scene as they have in PC esports. For games that have made an impact however, mobile esports is a huge industry.

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PUBG Mobile became the most-watched e-sports title in the month of August. According to Escharts, an e-sports viewership tracking website, the PUBG Mobile World League (East) was the most popular tournament last month and at its peak, it gathered over one million concurrent viewers. Notably, the maximum number of viewership came during the finals that were scheduled from August 6 to 9.

The tournament was one of the highest in the month of July as well, but couldn’t reach the top spot. However, the peak at the finals concluded 1.1-million viewers, making it the most popular online-only event in 2020. The report also suggests that the game ranked as the number 1 app in India while Hindi viewers contributed 35.8-percent to the total ‘Hours Watched’ number of the tournament. Since then, Clash Royale has stagnated, where others have either made their debut or have significantly refreshed their offerings. League of Legends’ upcoming mobile game, League of Legends: Wild Rift, will be looking to be another debutante cracking the charts, while PUBG’s launch of a new era (Beyond A.C.E.) could see that rise to the top spot overall. It’s also interesting to note that Free Fire, third in the overall list, actually had the highest concurrent peak, at 2,016,157 during the World Series 2019 in Rio.

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FEW POPLAR MOBILE ESPORTS TEAMS IN SEA :

The absolute leaders in Southeast Asia are EVOS Esports, with the team having a total of 6.3 million social network followers . Such a result was achieved thanks to the organization having a number of teams in all the popular mobile disciplines across two regions at once: Indonesia and Thailand. It should be noted that they are not keeping separate social network pages for each team – something that allowed them to gather the region’s entire fanbase in a single place.

The region’s next most popular team would be Aura Esports from Indonesia. They are only 50 thousand behind the ranking’s leaders and also have the highest number of subscribers of all the teams in TikTok, the currently trending Asian platform.It should be also noted that the majority of followers for every team came from Instagram – as opposed to the YouTube- and Facebook-centric tendencies of the rest of the world, when it comes to team development. Despite the team’s lack of Twitter and TikTok, Indonesian RRQ managed to reach the mark of 4.1 million followers. Bigetron Esports also managed to enter top 4, but are still 2 million followers behind the previous team – and that’s despite having pages on all the popular social networks. That’s the rundown on the biggest mobile esports in the world today. It’s a growing industry, especially in regions which don’t have access to high end PCs, and will continue to develop over the next few years.