Mountain Dew is back with their DoTA 2 Tournament and Mobile Gaming Challenge with The Dew Challenge 2016, and last weekend the participants duked it out to qualify for the finals and take a step closer to the RM150,000 grand prize!
This year’s challenge also had a new mobile gaming challenge, with participants for the Mountain Dew Mobile Gaming Challenge in the running to win RM50,000. Only the top ten will make it to the finals.
Mountain Dew has been part of the Malaysian gaming scene for some time now, having collaborations with companies like Riot (League of Legends) for tournaments and merch deals.
For this year’s DoTA 2 challenge, 1,120 participants from 224 teams of five players each came from across the region to compete. Each team needs to duke it out on state level to get to the finals.
The Dew Challenge 2016 will be running across the country, with the DoTA 2 and mobile gaming challenges to take place in these states:
- Selangor on 5 and 6 November 2016
- Kuala Lumpur on 12 and 13 November 2016
- Kuantan on 19 and 20 November
- Johor on 25 and 26 November
The finals will take place on 10-11 December in KL.
For more information and results, you can visit the Facebook page here.