Battlegrounds Mobile India update: In good news for Krafton, Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) mobile game launch party has achieved another milestone. The launch party of the exclusive Indian game surprised all with the total number of views going past the 25-million mark throughout the entirety of the launch party across all platforms. 

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The country’s eighteen prominent gamers, content creators and known personalities in the world of Esports came up with their exclusive squad and became the part of this virtual launch party which was held on July 8-9, 2021.

"While accumulating the numbers, 97,19,493 and 79,14,400 views came on the first and second day respectively across Hindi and English language on BGMI’s official YouTube channel, the engagement throughout the launch party proved the potential of the game as well as it lived up to the hype created in the whole Esports and gaming community," the company said.

Some of the country’s prominent content creators were featured in the BGMI launch party tournament, led by 18 squad captains. The launch party tournament was live-streamed on the Battlegrounds Mobile India’s Facebook and YouTube channels in Hindi as well as English.

The tournament, which boasted a whopping prize pool of Rs 6,00,000, saw Team Snax emerging as the winners and securing prize money of Rs 3,30,000 while Team Kronten and Team Ronak took home Rs 1,50,000 and Rs 1,00,000 with their second and third-place finish respectively.

“We are very proud to be associated with Krafton as their Official Talent Partner and initiated the first-ever Battlegrounds Mobile India launch party in the country and the event received more than 25 million views combining official YouTube, Facebook platforms of BGMI and the streaming channel of the content creators who were invited on this launch party," Abhishek Aggarwal, Co-Founder and CEO at Trinity Gaming, said.

With the fierce level of competition in the tournament and the number of fans supporting the launch party, it’s safe to say that the game indeed has a very bright future in India and has the potential to become the country’s favourite game, the company said.

Battlegrounds Mobile India has been receiving an overwhelming response, within a week after its release; the game has surpassed 34 million registered users. 

The game also recorded the highest of 16 million daily active users and 2.4 million peak concurrent users and this seems to be just the beginning of the rise of popularity of the much-awaited game.