Rooter gears up to host one of India's biggest BGMI Invitational Event

To celebrate the increasing popularity of PUBG Mobile’s Indian version, India’s leading game streaming and eSports platform Rooter is all set to host one of the country’s biggest  Battleground Mobile India tournament- Rooter Pro Scrims from August 21st-27th, 2021 in collaboration with Wings Lifestyle , India’s leading brand of low latency gaming earbuds. 40 top Indian teams will face off in the 7-day tournament that will take place in dual phases.

Launched on July 2, 2020, Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI, previously known as PUBG Mobile India) is an online multiplayer battle royale game developed and published by Krafton. Exclusively for the Indian users, the game consists of three modes Solo, Duo and Squad Battle Royale. The Battle Royale game mode consists comprises several teams playing on a single map. The key objective of the game is to search for better loot and surviving by being the only team alive in the match.

Battlegrounds Mobile India can be considered as one of the largest mobile game launches in history with over 50 million downloads within a month. The tournament organised by Rooter will witness the teams combating against each other in two phases for a massive prize pool worth INR 2,50,000.

The Initial phase will take place during the first four days where the teams will play against each other in three matches per day. While the first winning team in this phase will win INR 40,000, the second position holder will INR 30,000 and the third position holder will win INR 20,000. The most Valuable Player from this phase will be winning INR 10,000.  Meanwhile, in the second (Conqueror) phase, the winning teams can bag INR 60,000, followed by INR 35,000 (Second position), INR 25,000 (Third position) and INR 10,000 (Fourth Position). The Most Valuable player and team from this phase will receive INR 10,000 each. The “Wings Phantom of the day”, i.e. the top performer of the day shall be awarded with INR 5000/day and a Wings Phantom Bluetooth Headset.

Speaking ahead of the much-awaited tournament, Piyush Kumar, Founder and CEO, Rooter Sports Technologies Pvt. Ltd, said, “Krafton has been a pioneer in First Person Shooter Gaming category coming up with Pubg in India and creating the FPS category. The game created the first engaging Battle Royale game in India. BGMI since its launch in June has garnered more than 50 million downloads. We, at Rooter, are incredibly excited to bring this tournament to our users. We are the leaders in Game Streaming category in India and we want to continue bringing many more such exciting opportunities for gamers in partnership with Krafton. We are also excited to have all 40 Top teams of India participating here. And we also welcome Wings as our partner as they continue their amazing growth within gaming community. ”

Nishit Sharma, Founder and CEO, Wings Lifestyle said “We have always focussed on quality audio products for the Indian youth which blend in with their lifestyle and identity. We have already seen great success with our Wings Phantom earbuds within months of launch and many more gaming specific product launches planned in the coming months. I am really excited for the first ever gaming earbuds collaboration with Rooter and forge a strong relationship with the gaming community. I’m also delighted to confirm that we will be launching 2 new gaming products on the first day of the tournament on Flipkart to kickstart this relationship along with exciting giveaways planned throughout the event.”

The Battleground Mobile India tournament-Rooter Pro Scrims 2021 will be a compilation 28 hours of premium-produced content to be streamed across Rooter & YouTube.

Ranked No. 1 app in sports category on Google Play Store with 20+million downloads, Rooter is also a no.1 Game streaming platform with 30 million users comprising evolving content creators and live streamers. An early market leader in a fast-growing and rapidly evolving space, the state-of-the-art platform plays a significant role in leading tournaments and encourage eSports over India, offering opportunities to deserving players.