Today we are happy to announce the first official Battalion 1944 LAN event as part of the UK Masters at Insomnia62. This runs from March 30th - April 2nd (Easter Weekend). This is the first of many LAN Tournaments planned for 2018.
The Blitzkrieg Open Championship LAN Tournament will be ran by "The Plays" crew and is both sponsored and supported by “Belong” by GAME.
Only attendees of the LAN will be eligible to compete and you can purchase your tickets here. . There are currently only around 500 tickets left so make sure you move fast to secure your place!
The Grand Final will be held on The Player Stage on Sunday April 1st in front of all attendees and the Prize Pool is set at £10,000 with Prize money placement positions being 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. These are broken up as such:
- 1st place: £5000
- 2nd place: £2500
- 3rd place: £1750
- 4th place: £750
As well as prize money, First Place Winners will win a Custom Gold Weapon Skin that will be tradable and 1 of a kind. These will be individually customised to feature event information as well as the individual players name engraved on it.
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Multiple games throughout the tournament leading up to and including the finals will be streamed live on both The Plays GG Twitch Channel & The UK Masters Battalion Twitch Channel .
We had a huge amount of interest from people who are wanting to cast this event and we are going to be announcing who we have chosen soon. We are really excited to see how they will implement their style onto matches and how this affects the production quality.
The Insomnia62 Blitzkrieg Open Championship is the first of many Battalion 1944 LAN tournaments around the world in 2018 as we have previously announced that this year we intend to support 4 LAN events worldwide. This will include one in North America, so we look forward to seeing all the competitors at all of our tournaments fighting it out for the prize money places and bragging rights!
Good luck to all the teams involved in the coming Blitzkrieg Open Championship at Insomnia62, March 30 - April 2nd. Have fun, we hope you all enjoy playing and/or watching Battalion 1944’s first supported LAN event and we'll see you there!
We are aware of the current bugs & issues with Battalion 1944 and our dev team aren't stopping active work on the game. We've decided to support the promotion of this event as we really believe in the potential of Battalion 1944's competitive scene so we are keen to foster its growth at the grassroots level
This event is externally hosted and does not take away from our development time at all. We are currently working on our major Q1 update which will be coming in the next few weeks.
Thanks a lot guys
Tuna and the Bulkhead Team