After the resounding success of the ESPL 2021, Vishwalok Nath, the director of Esports Premier League(ESPL) talked to us (Talkesport) about his next big gaming IP and the future ESPL tournament.
Esports Premier League or ESPL 2021 was India’s first-ever franchise-based Free Fire tournament that ended up on a high note with more than 100 million video views and a million registrations. Riding on the success of the ESPL 2021, Mr. Vishwalok and his team at India Today Gaming is fully focused on the launch of their next big ambitious gaming IP — the World Esports Cup.
Unlike ESPL, the World Esports Cup or WEC 2021 will feature teams from not only India but teams from the neighboring countries — Nepal and Pakistan will also participate for the title of the best Free Fire team and claim the USD 100,000 or Rs 75,00,000 in the prize pool.
Talking about the WEC 2021, Mr. Vishwalok told us that the next iteration of ESPL will bring in more games and will be India’s first multi-game Franchise tournament. Apart from Free Fire, the next ESPL tournament might feature other popular online titles such as BGMI, COD Mobile, Valorant, etc. While at the moment no games were confirmed, Mr. Vishwalok said that his team is working hard on expanding the ESPL platform to include Desktop and Console titles in the future tournament.
“ESPL is something which gonna expand and include multiple platforms in it, so there are gonna be more games included. So just watch the space, we will announce more news on that,” said Mr Vishwalok Nath in the Talkesport Interact.