Celebration of Mobile Gaming by YouTube gives mainstream attention to Mobile Esports

YouTube Gaming just announced a new tournament with a pretty serious prize pool. The ‘Celebration of Mobile Gaming’ tournament is set to pit several creators in a multi-mobile game competition next week. The mobile game lineup c0nsists of Brawl Stars, PUBG Mobile and Clash Royale.

The creators that will be taking part are Clash with Ash, Orange Juice Gaming, KairosTime, Medalcore, Lex, Her Gaming and Powerbang Gaming (who is also the host of this particular event). The money won from the $50.000 prize pool won’t go to the creators themselves, but rather to a charity of their choice.

Celebration of Mobile Gaming for a cause

The $50.000 prize funds from the Celebration of Mobile Gaming YouTube tournament will all go to various good causes! The event itself will be streamed on the VidCon YouTube channel next week – on August 27^th.

Each participant will get to pick their own charity, which will receive their share of the winnings. Siimilar events often see charities like kid’s hospitals, cancer research centres and more featured – we’ll have to wait until the 27^th to find out which it is here!

VidCon is not your traditional convention as the name implies, this year around, it’s a summer-long virtual experience that features plenty of digital creators and their work. This isn’t limited to esports or even gaming – while no doubt a number of your favorite esports streamers will be involved, there is all sorts of content being featured in VidCon.

Mobile Games Competition to the mainstream

While gaming itself is obviously huge, the sheer size of the mobile gaming industry is often overlooked or underestimated, despite the fact that mobile gaming is expected to generate more than 77billion USD this year alone.

Asian markets in particular have mobile gaming as a serious contender in the competition with console and even PC gaming. VidCon, and YouTube Gaming, naturally, are aiming to take part in the hype. With big titles like PUBG and Forntite having mobile esports competitions and dedicated titles like Brawl Stars and Clash Royale going strong, there is plenty going on.

With Apple, Fortnite & Google getting mobile games loads of press and Riot Games pushing into India, Mobile Games and to some extent Mobile Esports is getting a ton of attention. This is inherently a good thing, after all esports can grow into any direction and platform and mobile and soon-after VR/AR are the next logical steps.

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