$250,000 Saudi Regional Tournament announced

Mert

May 8, 2018

The Saudi Arabian Federation for Electronic and Intellectual Sports has announced the Saudi Regional Tournament. The tournament boasts a 1,000,000 SR ($266,600~ USD) prize pool, with teams from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates set to compete for their share of the impressive pool.

#بطولةأوفرواتشالسعودية_الإقليمية 🎮#اوفرواتش pic.twitter.com/E3jfVFh5LJ
— اتحاد الرياضات الإلكترونية والذهنية (@SAFEISKSA) May 8, 2018

The online stage of the tournament will kick off on the 18th of May and end on the 25th of May. 64 Saudi teams and 64 teams from the seven other eligible countries will compete in a single elimination bracket, with matches played in a best-of-five maps format. The top eight teams from the first stage will qualify for the LAN playoffs, held sometime between the 31st of May and the 6th of June.

The 1,000,000 SR ($266,600~ USD) prize pool will be distributed as detailed below:

1st - 600,000 SR ($160,000~ USD)
2nd - 250,000 SR ($66,700~ USD)
3rd - 150,000 SR ($40,000~ USD)

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ez 4 Alicus

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What in fuck

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Prince MBS at it again

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....Poggers?

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How do I move to Lebanon?

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2 more years and saudis will buy blizzard

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EZ 4 Zengaming and my boy Kafeeee

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This is a Saudi tournament, do you really think they'd let Israelis play?

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Saudi Arabi and Israel are allies long time ago, they have bedded together and raised many uglies little boys. You may know some of them, one of their last kindred is called Daesh, if it means something to you...

Nice to see how Blizzard, to support women, sells 15€ breast cancer Mercy skins while supporting eSports in countries where women have no rights. Oh, wait ... they also support eSports in 21st century apartheid countries. Money talks!

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They are allied cause both of them depends on USA not really for friendship

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There are 64 teams in Saudi Arabia?

Battlefy link for the tournament: https://battlefy.com/challenge-arena/overwatch-saudi-regional-tournament-%D8%A8%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9/5aeb1d30876854038e6ec0fc/participants

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This tournament can have teams only from Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates

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64 Saudi teams AND 64 teams from the seven other eligible countries will compete in a single elimination bracket,

I'm trying to be funny, i'll be shocked if there are 64 teams full of people from saudi arabia. Maybe theres a large community? IDK

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i would expect alot of teams to be masters and even diamond players

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Hell if I was in Saudi Arabia I would play as a lat player.

So far 9 full registered teams, 51 pending, for 128 they say starts next Friday.

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Surprising

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I remember playing with an Egyptian once in my gm games and he couldnt use voice chat because their government forbids it, and after some google searches its apparently the same for countries like Saudi Arabia and other countries in the area. Can only imagine how frustrating it is for players to try and climb, and it must of definitely hurt the esports scene in the area. Though strange, im happy such a secluded area is finally getting some competition, and hope we get to see some new stars make a breaktrough. :>

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yeah for the first 6-8 months voip was blocked but then they verified blizzard and opened it. any shady/unsecured voip is blocked in SA like WhatsApp calls, but FaceTime works perfectly.

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yo 600,000 SR for first place i can finally make it to top 500

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nice

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Champion takes the Dallas Fuel slot

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can i apply for an egyptian passport? its for business reasons i swear.

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Obviously this will be played on console given the emoji used in the tweet

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