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Latin American esports tournament will pay its prize in cryptocurrencies

As the organizers explained to Ámbito, The “total prize pool” (includes travel and other expenses) will be US $ 200,000 from the league, of which up to 25% will be in cryptocurrencies.

“This is another step forward for our goal of bring cryptocurrencies to the whole world and that through actions like this and financial education as a fundamental pillar, the population can become financially empowered, “he said. Gonzalo Aguilar, marketing leader of SeSocio.

In 2020 the FlowFiReLEAGUE burst onto the esports scene in the region. As part of the ecosystem that FiReSPORTS built in recent years and that contains other leagues -which include everything from fighting games to Farming Simulator-, FiRe quickly established itself as one of the most important CSGO leagues.

There were two factors that were key to getting him to that place. On the one hand, the economic award of relevance that was positioned as “the largest prize pool in the history of the continent”. Second, it was the format that allowed teams to compete for direct access to the BLAST Premier, once they cleared qualifiers and advanced to the LATIN POWER league.

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Thanks to this opportunity, Isurus and 9z -and on two occasions- they had the chance to measure themselves against some of the best squads in the world. In the case of 9z, in addition, it was able to stay with an already historic victory against Vitality, at that time ranked as the eighth best team in the world.

Now the teams that participated in the qualifiers are preparing to meet face to face at the Gaming Center located in Palermo, Buenos Aires, in what will be the face-to-face finals, where the best representatives of each regional will seek to keep the first place and the jackpot.

After more than a year where the teams were forced to compete without being able to be in the same spaces and the crosses have retreated to an online format, the FiReSPORTS Gaming Center located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo is going to welcome the 12 classified from the QualiFiRe of the Southern Cone, Andean, North America, Brazil and Iberia. The last two were added in this last part of the year as one of the novelties that the FiRe incorporated.

In this new edition, the FlowFiReLEAGUE took a new step and announced that the prize will be paid with cryptocurrencies, a first for the esports scene in general, which sees the participation of stakeholders in an industry that continues to grow more and more. And, especially in our region, it is taking increasingly firm steps to establish itself on the international level, whether due to the arrival of teams to world-renowned tournaments or the transfer of organizations to central regions.

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In this way, everything is already defined so that the in-person final of the FlowFiReLEAGUE is an unbeatable opportunity for the teams that managed to qualify. After almost two years of estrangement, they will all converge in the Gaming Center to leave everything and be crowned as the big winner of the league.

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