Mobile Esports: A Whole New Level of Gaming

Most of you played mobile games like Snake, Dr. Driving, Hill Climbing, Bounce and many more right? Have you ever thought that playing mobile games can also be a career? Yes, it is true. In today's e-sports era mobile games have a very important role to play. Let's introduce to you about the e-sports first. E-sports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Even though esports may not be as physically demanding as traditional sports but it has a strong fanbase. Esports is also unfurling a legit career path for the gamers.

In the past, the e-sports competition only takes place for PC games. The opportunities were so limited then. But in recent years, after mobile games entering online sports competition, it has created a lot of opportunities. People don’t need a high qualification pc to practice or participate in a tournament. They can participate simply with their phone. The investment is very low to enter mobile esports. If someone has skills nothing can stop him/her to rule the mobile esports.

 

What is the history of Mobile E-sports? Although though the e-sports sector is just a few decades old, it has already advanced significantly from the Stanford University campus to massive stadiums with thousands of fans where teams compete for millions of dollars. The first e-sports event took place in 1972, and it featured a spaceship game. Mobile gaming has been around for ten years and has grown over that time. Nevertheless, mobile e-sports changed when PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds debuted on mobile devices in early 2018. The game's release signaled the beginning of the mobile gaming craze.

 

The youth is the dominant user of mobile esports nowadays. Slowly and steadily more games released and their e-sports started to grow fast. Such as: Freefire, Pokémon unite, Clash of Clans, Call of duty and many more. The officials also throw some big tournaments with a great prize pool. The biggest prize pool for a mobile game tournament is $10 million, set by the Honor of Kings International Championship 2022. Honor of Kings, a 2015 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) from Chinese company Tencent Games, is one of the most-played games in the world with an estimated 100 million daily players (Source : https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/729982-biggest-mobile-game-prize-pool). 2^nd Highest prize pool tournament is PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2021 and the prize pool was: US$6,000,000. Such events with a large prize pool were organized by other organizers too with the help of sponsor, not only the authorities.

 

By seeing the growth of mobile e-sports many famous pc games started to create the mobile version of those games. For instance, Apex Legends, PUBG PC, Dota 2 etc. Already these games entered the mobile e-sports world. Even the most famous game Valorant is working to release their mobile version soon.

 

Content creators to professional gamers, are facing both positive and negative impacts. Mobile esports in Bangladesh is growing slowly but the number of online players of those games are huge. The development of mobile e-sports in our nation has already been significantly influenced by PUBG and FreeFire. Even a Bangladeshi mobile e-sports team A1 Esports represented Bangladesh twice in a global level. Many gaming companies build their teams and hire players by giving them contracts. Even some big organization pay their players but the amount depends on their performance. For example: 4AM, XQF, RRQ, Soul, Global Esports are the names of some famous mobile esports team. Believe it or not, many famous pc gaming organizations already entered the mobile esports. Such as: Fnatic, Cloud9, G2 Esports etc

 

In the world mobile esports is ruling. Mobile esports players are getting very good salary just for playing under the name of their organization. But in our country just when people started to believe that mobile esports player can be a career, government banned the 2 most popular games PUBG & FreeFire. Still there are many mobile games which can be the future of esports in our country.

 

To conclude, mobile esports has become a worldwide phenomenon. People are making their careers here. Sports shouldn’t confined up to traditional games only, everyone should get a chance to explore and try something through mobile esports  At past, parents used to scold their children because of playing too much games. Nowadays, some parents scold their children so that they play and grind harder. The government also should give some attention to grow the mobile esports scene because this thing has a very bright future.