Last October 23rd Saturday, UFO Gaming held its first eSports tournament. It is popular for streamers, pro gamers, and the general gaming public against one another in an Apex Legends tournament with a $10,000 prize pool.
A social gaming platform called UFO Gaming combines blockchain technology with traditional mobile and PC games. Game-Fi uses multiple Play-to-Earn (P2E) games that consists of each of which allows gamers to join their friends, form clans, own and trade virtual land, and complete quests to earn NFTs and cryptocurrency. Normally, pro-gamers and well-known streamers could profit from their passion, but UFO Gaming’s crypto-powered version of P2E will allow anyone to profit from their passion for video games.
This is reflected in the UFO Gaming 10k Cup, which allowed anyone to enter and compete for the prize money, allowing members of the community to compete against popular Twitch streamers and professional gamers alike.
A Kill Race Leaderboard was used as the tournament format. Competitors had three hours to play as many games of Apex Legends Duos as they could, then submit their top five scores to the UFO Gaming website. Every kill was worth a point, and finishing first, second, or third in a match earned each player an extra six, four, or three points, respectively. The first-place prize was $5,000, while the second-place prize was $3,000 and the third-place prize was $2,000. TSM’s Nokokopuffs, Complexity Gaming’s Apryze, Bobbysolez, and Allenownz were among the professional players and content creators involved.
Apryze and Nokokopuffs collaborated to host the tournament on their respective Twitch channels. The duo scored four quick kills in the first few minutes of their first game, despite the fact that both players were knocked out and then resurrected during the shootout. A duo snuck up behind Nokokopuffs and killed him, but a Pathfinder grappling hook to sweep in and save the day was used by Apryze, killing both members of the team and bringing their total points to six during the first match. After reviving Nokokopuff with his beacon, both players went to the nearest firefight and scored three more kills. Their next encounter, however, did not go as planned, as they were both killed, leaving them with nine total points after finishing fifth in the first game.
A respectable warm-up performance, but not good enough to compete for first place and the enticing $5,000 prize. Fortunately, the pro duo fared much better in the second match, finishing in first place with a total of 24 kills between them, giving them a match score of 30. It was followed by a match win and 24 kills combined, but these two games were just warm-ups for the highest-scoring game yet, with Nokokopuffs and Apryze finishing first once more, this time with a combined total of 29 kills. Even if four of those kills came from the same player, a kill is still a kill. This resulted in a fantastic total score of 35 for the match.
With time running out, the pro team finished first with another 29-kill game, giving them a total score of 161 for the tournament. They then improved on this performance in their final game, finishing first again and adding 27 kills to their total, putting them in the top echelon.
Here are the final results:
1st place – KNG_R3KT and Obey Ace (189 points)
2nd Place – Nokokopuffs and Apryze (164 points)
3rd Place – rowdELife and Amzoop (128 points)
Honourable mentions:
4th place – IIRetroManII & twitch M1zery (127 points)
5th place – McDude2k13 and Xaze on Twitch (126 points)
UFO Gaming’s first tournament, as you can see, was extremely competitive. Obey Ace and KNG R3KT were not only victorious by defeating a professional team, but the difference between third and fifth place—and the $2,000 prize—was only two points.
Even if you didn’t place in the top five, participating in an eSports tournament with prize money on the line is thrilling. UFO Gaming will host more competitions like this in the future, allowing everyone to participate in Play-to-Earn. You can keep up with their future tournament updates here.
