If you love trading card games (TCG) and are looking to showcase your skills, Parallel TCG has teamed up with Yield Guild Games (YGG) for the Manila Tournament, which is part of the upcoming YGG Play Summit (YPS) in Manila. There will be a $100,000(~Php 5.6 million) prize pool at stake.
There will be two global online qualifiers to determine the players who will compete during the week-long YPS event on 19-23 November 2024. Along with the tournament, the YGG Play Summit will also feature the first-ever IRL GAM3 Awards ceremony, a cosplay competition, a one-day conference, as well as live demos and high-octane show matches of the hottest web3 games.
YGG key opinion leaders (KOLs) will be hosting Parallel giveaways and posting promotional content on social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Discord. The YGG-community-managed Facebook group “Everything Parallel” will be hosting contests and posting content designed to engage and attract people to the web3 game. Several educational videos, such as a series of deck guides, are also posted on the guild protocol’s YouTube channel.
Both qualifiers will give Parallel League points, with one tournament set for October 12-13 and another on October 26-27. For the first day, participants will play seven rounds of Swiss in a Best-of-3 Conquest format. The top 8 who make it to the second day will qualify for the Manila tournament but will still battle it out in a Best-of-3 single elimination format to determine Parallel League points. A total of 16 players from the two 128-player qualifier tournaments will move on to the main event at YPS.
“Parallel is in a very good position to be able to cater to these players, with many of its mechanics inspired by competitive TCGs such as Magic: the Gathering and Hearthstone. With YGG organizing these events, many players can have a chance at earning their share of the $100,000 prize pool at YPS,” YGG co-founder Gabby Dizon said.
“We will be able to emulate that feeling of playing with other people in a card shop while also showing them the advantages that web3 offers through Parallel TCG,” co-founder Kalos said.
Parallel TCG players can expect regular events weekly up until the November YGG Play Summit, which will be held at BGC, Metro Manila. The event will have conferences, international web3 guest speakers, game demos, tournaments, and more.
