Reliance Jio to Host JioMart Gameathon Free Fire Esports Tournament from October 30
Reliance is a multinational company mostly famous in the field of the oil industry. As one of the biggest conglomerates in Asia, Reliance is gradually expanding in the area of technology as well. To build digital India, Reliance is playing a big role by strengthening connectivity, collaborating with big tech giants like Qualcomm to bring a huge wave of technical revolution, investing in e-commerce, and the latest launching an online gaming event JioMart Gameathon starting this month. Online gaming events can bring huge publicity especially when the entire world is wrapping itself with the virtual mode of entertainment and communication.
This is the perfect timing for Reliance Jio to host an esports event while simultaneously working to launch a 5G-enabled smartphone. The first tournament of this Gameathon is called the Free Fire tournament and many more events will eventually follow this into the JioGames platform. The tournament will start from 30th October till 1st November.
The Free Fire tournament
The company will hold the Free Fire tournament and the following events on the JioGames platform which the company announced last year at the company’s 42nd Annual General Meeting. The JioGames platform was announced along with JioFiber set-top box. The app is still in its beta version available in Google Play Store. The three-day event of the Free Fire tournament will be live broadcasted on YouTube and JioTV. The news and updates related to the events are posted on a support page created especially for this tournament. This event also comes with lucrative cash prizes to lure as many audiences as possible. The first prize is worth Rs 16,000 which is followed by the runner-up prize money, that is, Rs 12,000 and Rs 1,000 for the most valuable player. The prize money will be credited in the JioMart’s wallet of the winners. This is also a very clever step as the prize money won will be spent on the company’s service itself. The first-ever gaming esports launched by JioMart is going to be a mobile-only tournament. So, buckle up and prepare for the game.
Registration for JioMart Gameathon
JioMart is reaching out to more people with the #GetSetGame for the first-ever Gameathon. The registration for the tournament has started from 26th October and it will open till the 29th of this month. You can register for the event through the JioGames portal. The Free Fire tournament is a four-stage competition where the qualifying stage will be held on 30th and 31st October at sharp 11 am. The qualifying round will be followed by quarter-finals scheduled for these two days from 11 am to 3 pm. The semi-finals will take place from 1 pm to 4 pm. The grand finale of the tournament will take place on 31st October, that is, Sunday from 5 pm to 8 pm.
Details about the tournament
You should hurry up for registration if you haven’t as a total number of 576 teams will enter the first stage (qualifying stage) of the tournament. The total number of teams will be divided between 48 lobbies. In the quarter-finals, the top two teams from each lobby will participate, which means 96 teams will compete to reach the semi-finals. In this stage, teams will be divided into 8 lobbies and the top three from each lobby will make it to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, 24 teams will be competing with each other in two lobbies. Six participants from each lobby will make it to the grand finale. In the grand finale, there will be one single lobby and three maps will be played to declare the winners. The registration page of the tournament has every necessary detail from the scoring system to the general rules of the game.
Reliance Jio and Gaming
Mukesh Ambani has bigger plans for online gaming pushing the company deeper into the tech world. Apart from the oil industry, Reliance will emerge out as one of the successful tech giants of our country very soon. At the beginning of this year, Mukesh Ambani, in an interview with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, gaming has the potential to be bigger than any other aspects of entertainment put together. And, it seems like Reliance Jio has been marching in the direction to make it come true.
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