Smart GIGA Arena, the first esports platform in the Philippines, is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a month-long esports event for its one million users. Smart GIGA Arena is a platform that lets Smart and TNT customers compete in daily, weekly, and monthly tournaments to win prestige and cash prizes.
Anniversary Tournament Cup
To show its gratitude to its growing community, Smart GIGA Arena is holding an Anniversary Tournament Cup that will feature the best teams competing for a share of the PHP 50,000 prize pool.
It will feature today’s top games, including, Mobile Legends: Bang-Bang, Call of Duty Mobile, League of Legends: Wild Rift, and Player’s Unknown BattleGrounds. Interested teams and players may register for the Anniversary Tournament Cup at gigaarena.smart.
FREE tickets, MLBB skins, and diamonds
Then there’s GACHAPON weekend, where users can get a chance to win free GIGA Arena tickets, as well as skins and diamonds for Mobile Legends: Bang-Bang (MLBB). New users can also get one free GIGA Arena ticket which can be used to join any tournament, while team captains can now pay for their team members’ tournament registration fees.
Milestone 1 million users
Smart GIGA Arena has achieved significant milestones since its launch, empowering gamers to level up their gameplay through exciting tournaments, such as the Street League Tournament, an MLBB tournament that allowed amateur teams to showcase their skills and talents. The tournament champion, Gamelab, has found more success rising through the ranks and becoming a powerhouse in the MLBB Developmental League.
Throughout the past year, the esports platform has launched a total of 543 games in both solo and team categories and given away a total prize pool of PHP 1.6 million. Smart GIGA Arena users can expect more tournaments and bigger prizes as the platform continues to cater to Filipino gamers nationwide.
Empowering Filipino Gamers
Smart GIGA Arena is part of Smart’s long-standing support for Philippine esports to cultivate the passion, skill, and talent of Filipino gamers. In addition to live tournaments, it also comes with features that allow mobile gamers to set up tournaments, stream live competitions, play arcade games, purchase e-load, and conveniently link their e-wallet to secure their tournament winnings via GigaPay with Maya, among others.
Smart is committed to supporting gamers with relevant data offers and services, like the enhanced GIGA Games, a data-packed offer that enables Filipinos to play their favorite games. Subscribers can register to GIGA Games by logging into the GigaLife App or their mobile wallet apps, dialing *123#, or heading to the nearest sari-sari store.
Emman has been writing technical and feature articles since 2010. Prior to this, he became one of the instructors at Asia Pacific College in 2008, and eventually landed a job as Business Analyst and Technical Writer at Integrated Open Source Solutions for almost 3 years.
