ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) is a sponsor of the Entity Gaming mobile gaming team from India. Initially, Entity Gaming had three PUBG Mobile divisions, namely Entity Gaming, ETG.Brawlers, and a women’s special division called Entity Athena. However, now, they focus on one team. The main PUBG Mobile team from Entity Gaming just won the PUBG Mobile Club Open Fall Split for the South Asia region and took home a total prize of US $ 60 thousand. With this victory, they are entitled to advance to the 2019 PMCO Fall Championship to be held in Malaysia. Entity Gaming also has Clash Royale, Jin Kazama and PUBG Mobile caster Ketan “K18” Patel players.
“We realize that mobile esports will become a trend at the beginning of last year,” said Varun Bhavnani, Director of Entity Gaming, according to a report on Talk Esports. “We are starting to look for talented players, train them, and invest in this field. We have gained various achievements since then. ”He praised the ASUS ROG brand, saying that the brand is a brand recognized by many gamers. He said the collaboration between ASUS ROG and Entity Gaming was a symbiosis of mutualism that would benefit both parties.
Indeed, the esports industry in India is growing rapidly, especially mobile esports. One of the things that shows how fast the growth of esports in India is the total prize esports tournament. This year, compared to last year, the total prize of esports tournaments in India rose more than 100 percent. In addition, the number of spectators and participants of esports tournaments in India has also increased, especially in PUBG Mobile. Indeed, India is one of the countries with the most number of PUBG Mobile players in the world. According to estimates from The Esports Observer, there are 11 thousand teams that register in the PUBG Mobile Summer Split Indian Qualifiers.
Meanwhile, Dinesh Sharma, Head of Mobile Business, ASUS India, said, “Working closely with Entity Gaming, we will provide the most powerful gaming smartphone to the best Indian mobile sports teams so they can play better at national and international levels. Through this collaboration, we want to find and support talent esports in India with the best smartphones, bringing Indian esports stars. “He hopes that ASUS will also get direct input from mobile esports players about the design and features for the next ROG Phones.