With the much-anticipated and successful Esports title launch ofBattlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) in the Indian market, the launch party of the exclusiveIndian game surprised all with the total number of views going past the 25-million markthroughout the entirety of the launch party across all platforms. Country’s eighteen prominentgamers, content creators and known personalities in the world of Esports came up with theirexclusive squad and became the part of this virtual launch party which was held on July 8-9,
2021.
While accumulating the numbers, 97,19,493 and 79,14,400 views came on the first and
second day respectively across Hindi and English language on BGMI’s official YouTube
channel, the engagement throughout the launch party proved the potential of the game as well
as it lived up to the hype created in the whole Esports and gaming community.
Some of the country’s prominent content creators were featured in the BGMI launch party
tournament, led by 18 squad captains—Dynamo, Kronten, Mortal, Ghatak, Shreeman
Legend, Maxtern, Gaming Guru, Classified YT, Antaryami, Alpha Clasher, K18, Snax,
Sangwan, Godnixon, Ronak, Jonathan, Bandookbaaz and Clash Universe. This ultimate
stand-off showcased in-game skills of India’s finest gamers and Hindi casters Animesh
‘Thug’ Agarwal and Ocean Sharma with their host Varun Thakur and English casters
Icybaby12, Experiment, FYXS with their host Super Jonny was very enthralled to see their
favourite streamers back in the action after a gap of several months. The launch party
tournament was live-streamed on the Battlegrounds Mobile India’s Facebook and YouTube
channels in Hindi as well as English.
The tournament, which boasted a whopping prize pool of INR 6,00,000, saw Team Snax
emerging as the winners and securing prize money of INR 3,30,000 while Team Kronten
and Team Ronak took home INR 1,50,000 and INR 1,00,000 with their second and third-
place finish respectively.
Abhishek Aggarwal, Co-Founder and CEO at Trinity Gaming, who manages most of
these talents, said, “This launch was a huge step in the space of Esports as it gave the
players a new arcade to explore and compete. We are very proud to be associated with
Krafton as their Official Talent Partner and initiated the first-ever Battlegrounds Mobile
India launch party in the country and the event received more than 25 million views
combining official YouTube, Facebook platforms of BGMI and the streaming channel of the
content creators who were invited on this launch party. We have witnessed some of the best
content creators and gamers battling it out and displaying their skill set with their exclusive
squads.“The event was quite good as it starts up the spark of competition in a chill way to begin
with, honestly this is one of the best starts to a game that wraps up around the emotions and
understandings of influencers and the audience” said Ocean Sharma after the conclusion
of the launch party.
