Saudi Arabia’s $15 Million Esport Gaming Event Announced

From July 14 to September 8, Saudi Arabia will be host to its greatest esports event called Gamer8.

The function, totally titled ‘Gamer8 – Your Portal to the Up coming World’, will be hosted at the function-created location in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and guarantees festivals, concerts, reveals, and performances from some of the largest names in the tunes business.

The prize pool for the esports event is a staggering $15 million, to be competed by six intercontinental teams and unfold throughout six distinct titles.

“With an approximated 23.5 million avid gamers across the region, almost each individual property in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has an individual with a deep enthusiasm for gaming. This passion for gaming has very long been a resource of satisfaction for Saudis,” mentioned His Royal Highness Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Sultan, chairman of the Saudi Esports Federation, the organization behind the celebration.

“The gaming sector in Saudi Arabia has been on a journey of progress and advancement that matches the increased ambitions of the region drawn by Vision 2030 – and that is epitomized by the internet hosting of Gamers8. The event in Riyadh this summer season has a mission to blur the strains in between what’s bodily and what is digital and provide a spectacle and an occasion past what any person has skilled right before.

Though nonetheless unnamed, Gamer8 will see eight global arist complete at the display, which according to the official statement will “whet the urge for food of audio enthusiasts”. They will be joined by many neighborhood and regional artists, and attendees can also glimpse ahead to about 1,000 things to do and sights, this sort of as comedy and magic reveals.

For more on Gamer8, check out the formal site.