Fnatic is a professional esports organisation headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Founded on 23 July 2004, it has players from around the world competing in several games, including Apex Legends, Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, FC Online, Heroes of the Storm, League of Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, and Valorant.
Natus Vincere, commonly referred as abbreviated name NAVI, is a Ukrainian esports organization based in Kyiv. Founded in 2009, the organization has teams and players competing in various games, such as Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, FIFA, Brawl Stars, World of Tanks, Paladins, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Clash of Clans, Apex Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Fortnite, and VALORANT.
Video gaming in India is an emerging market since India is experiencing strong growth in online gaming, making it one of the top gaming markets in the world. Over the past few decades, the Indian gaming industry has gone from close to nonexistent in the 1990s to one of the top markets globally in the late 2010s. In 2019, the online gaming market in India was estimated at ₹6,200 crore (US$780 million) with an estimated 300 million gamers, a 41.6% increase from 2018. As of 2021, it is one of the top five mobile gaming markets in the world. By the third quarter of 2020 there were more than 7.4 billion mobile game downloads. According to the "State of India Gaming Report," released by venture capital firm Lumikai with Google, as of November 2023, there were 568 million gamers in India. Additionally, it was reported that in FY23, 41% of gamers were female and 66% were from non-metros, with each user on average spending 10–12 hours per week on video games.
Team SoloMid, commonly referred to by its abbreviation TSM, is a professional esports organization based in the United States. It was founded in September 2009 by Andy "Reginald" Dinh. TSM currently fields players in Apex Legends, Dota 2, Fortnite, Rocket League, Guilty Gear Strive, Super Smash Bros., Valorant, and Counter-Strike 2. The organization also briefly owned an Overwatch team.
Immortals is a professional esports organization based in the United States owned by Immortals Gaming Club. It was founded on October 7, 2015, after the acquisition of Team 8's LCS spot.
eGG Network was a Malaysian pay television channel that was launched on 7 June 2016. It is a joint venture of Rocketfuel Entertainment Sdn Bhd. This channel focused on esports and broadcast electronic gaming tournaments live around the world. Its first tournament broadcast was the International Dota 2 Championships 2015.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang(MLBB) is a mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed and published by Moonton, a subsidiary of ByteDance. The game was released in 2016 and grew in popularity, most prominently in Southeast Asia.
Brawl Stars is a multiplayer online battle arena and third-person hero shooter video game developed and published by the Finnish video game company Supercell. The game was released worldwide on December 12, 2018, on iOS and Android platforms. The game features a variety of game modes, each with a distinctive objective. Players are able to choose from a selection of 'Brawlers', i.e., characters able to be controlled with on-screen joysticks inside of an in-game match.
Gen.G, previously known as KSV Esports, is a professional esports organization with headquarters in Santa Monica, Seoul, and Shanghai. According to Forbes, Gen.G is the eighth most valuable esports organization in the world as of May 2022, worth US$250 million.
Free Fire is a free to play battle royale game developed and published by Garena for Android and iOS. It was released on 8 December 2017. It became the most downloaded mobile game globally in 2019 and has over 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store. In the first quarter of 2021 it was the highest grossing mobile game in the US. In November 2019, it surpassed $1 billion in lifetime revenue. As of 2021, Free Fire had surpassed 150 million daily active users.
Tribe Gaming (TRB) is a North American mobile gaming esports and entertainment organization headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2017, Tribe currently fields professional teams across multiple mobile video game titles including: Clash Royale, Clash of Clans, Brawl Stars, and Call of Duty: Mobile. These teams are based in North America and Europe but compete globally. In addition to esports, Tribe Gaming creates unique entertainment featuring a diverse roster of mobile gaming content creators.
Spacestation Gaming is a multi-regional professional esports organization based in Utah, founded and owned by social media influencer Shaun "Shonduras" McBride. Since its founding, SSG has grown to include teams in eight different leagues and is active in esports content creation. They won the Rainbow Six Siege world championship in 2020.
Stalwart Esports is an Indian professional esports organisation focused on mobile gaming. It was founded in January 2020. Stalwart Esports has teams competing in PUBG Mobile, Free Fire, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. They became the first esports organisation to adopt cryptocurrencies in their balance sheet.
Galaxy Racer is an esports and gaming organization based in Dubai, UAE and founded in 2019 by Paul Roy. As of 2023, Galaxy Racer's competitive esports division, Nigma Galaxy, has a roster of 13 esports teams playing Battlegrounds Mobile India, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Fortnite, Free Fire, League of Legends, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and PUBG Mobile. It also has partnerships with various companies and organizations such as La Liga and Polaris Sports.
NEW STATE Mobile is a futuristic style multiplayer online battle royale video game developed by PUBG Studios and published by Krafton. The game was released on November 11, 2021, for iOS and Android through the App Store (iOS/iPadOS), Google Play and Samsung Galaxy Store. It is the second installment in the PUBG Universe, separated from PUBG: Battlegrounds and its mobile version.
PUBG Mobile is a free-to-play battle royale video game developed by LightSpeed & Quantum Studio, a division of Tencent Games. It is a mobile game adaptation of PUBG: Battlegrounds. It was initially released for Android and iOS on 19th of March 2018.
The Free Fire World Series (FFWS) is the annual professional Free Fire world championship tournament hosted by Garena. Teams compete for a total prize pool of US$2 million. The 2021 edition of the event became world's most watched esports event by peak live viewer count at the time.
Jonathan Amaral, known professionally as Jonathan Gaming, is an Indian professional esports player known for playing Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) & Pubg Mobile(PUBGM). During the 2022 Esports Award, Amaral came in second place in the Esports Mobile Players of the Year category. FanClash, an esports fantasy platform, announced in 2023 that Amaral will be serving as their new brand ambassador., In a livestream on 16 November 2023, Jonathan announced him as an official Red Bull Player. He also participated in Redbull Soapbox Event representing Godlike Esports which they eventually lost to S8UL Esports as their car wasn't good enough to reach the finish line.
The Peacekeeper Elite event at the 2022 Asian Games took place from 29 September to 1 October 2023 in Hangzhou, China.
