Another milestone has reached the most innovative field of sport, e-sport. The 2020 regular season of the number one Hungarian e-sports championship, the K&H Hungarian National E-sports Championship, starts, where the best Hungarian e-athletes and teams can compare their knowledge in 7 competitions this year, with a total prize of HUF 15 million.
After the national qualifiers, the 2020 regular season of the K&H Hungarian National E-Sports Championship will start in March. „The sport XXI. The innovation of the 20th century, e-sports, is becoming more and more decisive among athletes and fans in Hungary as well. The dizzying growth in the popularity of the sport is certainly illustrated by the fact that last year’s e-sports championship was already watched by more than 700,000 viewers on stream channels. K&H also wants to set an example and embrace domestic talent in this area of sport, where digital innovations, technology, and the commitment, determination, and pursuit of excellence characterize athletes. Thus, expanding our support last year, this year we are supporting the entire competition series as a naming sponsor, with total prize money of HUF 15 million, ”said Nóra Horváth Magyary, K&H Group’s Chief Communications Officer, at a press conference on the occasion of the season.
“An important season is the second in the history of the K&H Hungarian National E-Sports Championship, as this season we are introducing players and teams to the world of associations and teams with real legal personality. In 2020, in addition to the five games so far, League of Legends (LoL), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO), Rainbow Six Siege (R6S), PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), and Hearthstone, more in two games – FIFA 20 and Gran Turismo Sport – domestic e-athletes and teams can also compare their knowledge. We registered 104 team entries in League of Legends, 147 in CS: GO, and 76 in Rainbow Six Siege during the qualifying cups of the second season, for a total of 1635 individual entries in the above three games. The playoffs and the finals will take place between April and June 2020, and the matches will be able to be watched live via online broadcasts, ”informed Balázs Biró, President of HUNESZ, in connection with the competition.
