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Nova Esports’ all-UK roster defeated seven of the top Brawl Stars teams to become the mobile game’s first world champions.
They beat the likes of Animal Chanparu, 3Bears, Dr. HK, SSG Brazil, Spacestation Gaming, Tribe Gaming and PSG Esports on the weekend at the BEXCO Auditorium in Busan, South Korea.
Brawl Stars is a 3v3 multiplayer team shooter from the makers of Clash Royale.
The World Championship had a $250,000 prize pool; the winning team consisted of UK players Tom, Spen and Cerulean.
“It has been very exciting and nerve-wracking weekend for team, but the whole tournament has been a great experience. It was a tough competition, and it was only during the Finals’ second match when I started to look at the trophy in front of us and knew that we’re going to win.”
Spencer, Nova Team Captain
Developer Supercell also announced that a year-long global Brawl Stars Championship will begin early next year.
The Brawl Stars Championship invites every Brawl Stars player in the world (aged 16+, no team affiliation necessary), to compete in an open-format, online competition that will have monthly qualifiers take place face-to-face. The competition will culminate with a global finals at the end of 2020.
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“The tremendous level of skill demonstrated by Nova and all of the competitors at this year’s Brawl Stars World Championship makes us even more excited for the future of Brawl Stars esports,” said Supercell’s Kim Jensen, who oversees Brawl Stars esports.
“Our community has been setting up competitions all over the world since before Brawl Stars even officially launched last December, and in less than a year they’ve already honed their skills to an incredible level.
“We can’t wait for the 2020 competition to see who rises to the top in this truly open, global competition.”
Aside from the $250,000 prize pool, the views were impressive too:
Tthe competition can be viewed in its entirety on the Brawl Stars YouTube channel.
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
