Mercantile eSports Championship returns for the 2nd time this year, a lot better and a lot bigger. With the inclusion of additional games into the list and upscale prices, the tournament kicked off early Saturday morning, 15th July 2017 at Trace Expert City, Maradana. Organized by Gamer.LK, the tournament was open for all corporations in Sri Lanka, entitling corporate employees to represent their organization across a number of team and individual titles to compete for an overall championship trophy.
LIST OF SPONSORS
- Powered by: Dialog Gaming
- Official Energy Drink: Red Bull
- Official Radio Partner: YESFM Sri Lanka’s No. 1 Hit Music Station
- Motorbike Partner: Honda
- Digital Media Partner: ReadMe
- Digital Promotions Partner: Promoter.lk
- AV & Lighting Partner: eleKtro revo
- Travel Partner: PickMe
A record of 60 corporates of Sri Lanka registered for the extravagant Mercantile eSports championship with the previous year’s overall champions, Virtusa, striving to be the best once more along with the remaining 59 corporates eyeing the same goal.
TITLES
- Project Cars – 1V1
- FIFA 17 – 1V1
- Mortal Kombat XL – 1V1
- DOTA 2 – 5V5
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare – 5v5: with a record of 34 teams taking part this year.
NEW INCLUSIONS:
- Counter Strike: Global Offensive – 7 teams and hell a lot of gruesome battles.
- League of Legends – with 4 teams taking part, the champions were crowned on the first day of the tournament.
- OverWatch – a small bracket of 3 teams in total, but intense, nail biting action each round.
- Clash Royale – From the creators of ‘Clash of Clans’ and another amazing mobile game. Clash Royale combines elements from collectible card games, tower defense, and multiplayer online battle arena. The first ever Clash Royale tournament kicked off at Mercantile 2017.
Every Multiplayer / Team game excluding OverWatch, kicked off on early Saturday morning. The action started of early with Call of Duty 4 and League of Legends matches not only taking the main attraction of the event but also being streamed live on a beautiful giant screen right behind the players. All these brilliant matches and the shout casting by the best shout casters of the country, was a sight to see.
MULTIPLAYER/TEAM TITLE STANDINGS
CALL OF DUTY 4– MODERN WARFARE
Winners: Team Huskies (Virtusa)
2nd Place: Team Oxygen (Dialog)
3rd Place: Team A (WSO2)
COUNTERSTRIKE : GLOBAL OFFENSIVE
Winners: Team V (Virtusa)
2nd Place: Team CodeGen (CodeGen)
3rd Place: Team Watch Words (WSO2)
DOTA 2
Winners: Team Virtusa (Virtusa)
2nd Place: Team LSEG (LSEG)
3rd Place: DG |TheVigilKnights (Dialog)
LEAGUE OF LEGENDS
Winners: Team LPBP (HOUZNT)
2nd Place: Team Legions Feader (Pearson)
3rd Place: Team Invizible Wlkrz
OVERWATCH
Winners: Team RLG (RedLine Technologies)
2nd Place: Team OVERZONE (Zone 24×7)
3rd Place: Team MilleniumIT (LSEG)
SINGLE PLAYER TITLE STANDINGS
PROJECT CARS
Winners: Dimal Fernando (Victory Information)
2nd Place: Binura De Zoysa (ReadMe)
3rd Place: Sajith Rupasinghe (LSEG)
FIFA 17
Winners: Sadir Omer (SLT Services)
2nd Place: Afdhal Muvaffik (Srilankan Air Lines)
3rd Place: Janith Amaratunge (Xcendant)
MORTAL KOMBAT XL
Winners: Dulaj Gunawardene (Dockyard General Engineering Services)
2nd Place: Azeem Ahamed (LSEG)
3rd Place: Umashankar (GSS)
CLASH ROYALE
Winners: JayaLanka Tours
2nd Place: MAS Active
3rd Place: Pyxle
Virtusa playing insanely well and winning 3 titles out of 9 were the clear overall champions of Mercantile eSports Championship 2017. With the prizes and the medals given off to the winners, Mercantile eSports Championship came to a close. Stay tuned and get all your workmates and employees ready for Mercantile eSports Championship 2018!
Link: http://mercantile.gamer.lk/#results