Playtonia, an India-based esports service and tech company, is holding its 2019 edition of Conquerer’s Insignia CS:GO tournament grand finals in Malaysia.
Also referred to as CI in the Indian gaming community, the first edition of the tournament saw 300 teams participated in CS:GO and Dota 2.
The 2019 edition of CI sees the tournament focusing only on CS:GO, with online qualifiers for 29 different countries from three regions. The online qualifiers will be played on Playtonia’s platform of game servers.
The list of regions and countries that can participate in CI 2019 is as follows:
Asian Sub Continent (South Asia)
- India
- Bangladesh
- Nepal
- Sri Lanka
- Maldives
- Bhutan
Middle East
- Pakistan
- UAE
- Saudi Arabia
- Lebanon
- Oman
- Kuwait
- Qatar
- Bahrain
- Egypt
- Jordan
- Yemen
- Iraq
- Iran
Southeast Asia
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Cambodia
- Myanmar
- Laos
- Brunei
For each region, teams will be competing in a single elimination round until the top 8 teams have been narrowed down. Later, the top 8 of each region moves to the decider qualifiers where they will play a round-robin tournament, the winner going to Grand Finals. Travel and accommodation are sponsored by Playtonia.
The Grand Finals, which will be held in Malaysia, will see the four teams- one for South Asia, Middle East, and Southeast Asia plus one invited team to compete for the $40, 000 USD (roughly RM165,660) winner share of the prize pool.
For those interested to compete, you can find more details on the tournament format and the register your team here. Registration for the Southeast Asia region ends July 24th, with the online qualifiers begin on July 26th.