Its simply named "National Competition"
For starters National Competition is Tencent's way of doing their grassroot scene in China, this includes tournaments at several levels
- Provincial level tourney (state level in the US)
- Internet cafe tourney
- Tournaments hosted by Streaming Platforms
- College or School Level tournaments
Then top teams from each path collide in a LAN Finals to determine a National Champion
in some games this will send teams to T2 Leagues
Now the prize pool... This is insane even for a Tencent standard on this model on other games
- Provincial now named as Southern and Northern Divisionals: ¥400K ($55K)
- Internet Cafes (no prize)
- College/High School Championship: ¥600K ($82K)
- Streaming Platforms Qualifiers: ¥500K ($68K)
- Finals: ¥500K ($68K)
In total of ¥2M or basically $270K
on what's basically equivalent to VRC (e.g. Project V) for China but has total prize pool higher than the partner leagues themselves
since this ran at the same time as CN EVO meant this is not Challengers China, it is even a step below. (Expect T2 CN League to be more pricey than this?)
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