The Brawlhalla Championship Series began June 18th, kicking off 21 weeks of online tournaments leading up to the Brawlhalla Championship Expo taking place Nov. 11-13 where a $50,000 prize pool is at stake.
The Brawlhalla Championship Series is the first sanctioned tournament series backed by Brawlhalla developer Blue Mammoth Games. The BCS includes 1v1 and 2v2 online tournaments in the US and EU with $14,000 in prizes throughout. The BCS also includes regional online tournaments for players on the Australian, Brazilian, and Southeast Asian servers.
The BCS includes both 1v1 and 2v2 tournaments, marking Brawlhalla as one of the only games to run multiple game formats as official competitive modes. “Twenty-five percent of all our ranked players play on the 2v2 ladder exclusively,” said David Kisich, Brawlhalla’s eSports director, “We’re incredibly excited to be running both game modes in the BCS.”
“We designed Brawlhalla to support competitive play,” said Matt Woomer, creative director at Blue Mammoth. “But one day you look up and there are tournaments streaming every weekend, videos coming out of high level play, LAN tournaments, FGC tournaments, prize money, clans, and even sponsors. In June over a hundred thousand players were active in the ranked queues. So we asked ourselves and the community, ‘What can we do to support and encourage all that effort?’ This official tournament series and the world championship is a big part of the answer.”
The BCS is the buildup to the first annual Brawlhalla Championship Expo (BCX) November 11-13 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta, Georgia. The centerpieces of BCX are the open-entry 1v1 and 2v2 World Championship Tournaments with a combined prize pool of over $50,000. In addition the Expo will also have talks, mini-tournaments, prizes, swag, hang-outs, devs, cosplay, cupcakes, top players, streamers, and more.
About Brawlhalla: Brawlhalla is a free-to-play platform fighter currently available in Early Access on Steam and releasing on PlayStation later this year. Brawlhalla currently has over 24 playable characters, ranked and casual game modes, and online and local gameplay. Since entering open beta in November, Brawlhalla has had over 3 million players.
About Blue Mammoth Games: Blue Mammoth is an independent game development studio based in Atlanta, Georgia and specializing in online games. Founded in 2009 by veterans of Cryptic Studios, Blue Mammoth is the developer of the 2D MMO Dungeon Blitz and the 2D platform fighter Brawlhalla, which is currently in early access on Steam and coming soon to PlayStation 4.