Mobile title Clash Royale will be hitting the esports arena this year with Clash Royale League 2018. It will combine professional and amateur players from the world over into elite teams to compete. The prize pool for the Clash Royale League is a whopping $1 million.
Any amateur Clash Royale players hoping to rub shoulders with the pros could compete in the Clash Royale League Challenge. It was an in-game event that whittled 25 million players down to a mere 7,000. The pro teams from across the world will be using this player pool to complete their rosters for the final League. The teams who do the best as a whole will move on to the Clash Royale League World Finals.
The teams that will be representing North America are as follows: Cloud9 Esports, Team SoloMid, Tribe Gaming, Immortals, NRG, Complexity, 100 Thieves, and Counter Logic Gaming. From Europe will be FNATIC, Misfits, SK Gaming, G2 Esports, Team Liquid, Team Queso, 100 Thieves, and Allegiance. Mainland China will be sending EDG.M, GO, JDG, NOVA, OP, SNAKE, and WE. The rest of Asia will send OGN Entus, Sandbox, Kingzone, OP.GG, GameWith, PONOS Sports, DetonatioN Gaming, FAV Gaming, AHQ ESPORTS CLUB, KIX, Chaos Theory, and Bren Esports. Latin America will have their own Clash Royale teams as well, but they will be announced later.
There are a ton of big names in esports being thrown around up there, making this Clash Royale League one to watch.
Source: VentureBeat via ResetEra