India barred the game in a dispute with China, but Krafton has launched Battlegrounds Mobile India has launched in that market. It debuted in 2017 and has been downloaded in the hundreds of millions.

PUBG Mobile was built by Tencent’s game studio, LightSpeed & Quantum Studio.

PUBG Mobile is licensed from Krafton, owner of the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds brand and creator of the PC and console version of the game. The event is being carried on the official PUBG Mobile Esports social channels on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch. Sponsored by OnePlus, the event features players fighting it out in the battle royale game on Android smartphones.

Worldwide, the total prize pool is $15 million, Yang said. In this weekend’s competitions, five of the 20 teams will split the $150,000 prize pool and move on to the PMPL Americas Championship, where they will compete against teams from across Latin America for spots in the PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC) 2021 and a share of the $6 million prize pool.

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