‘Parallel’ Headed to Mobile as Ethereum Card Game Crowns $100K Champion

Ethereum-based buying and selling card recreation Parallel hosted its first-ever Parallel League Championship esports competitors over the weekend, with skilled Hearthstone participant Jaromír “Jarla” Vyskočil taking house first prize, bagging himself $100,000 within the course of. And the favored crypto-infused recreation introduced some huge information alongside the way in which.

The 2-day occasion, hosted on the HyperX Enviornment in Las Vegas, noticed 16 high Parallel gamers face off with $250,000 on the road. This got here after gamers fought for qualification through a six-month aggressive league, the place they earned factors by way of in-game tournaments, ladder matches, main tournaments, and extra.

On the primary day, Parallel launched a reveal trailer for its upcoming third-person extraction shooter, saying the sport to be referred to as Parallel: Sanctuary. Beforehand codenamed Challenge Tau Ceti, the sport is being constructed on B3, a layer-3 gaming community on Base—Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 community.

By the top of the day Sunday, there have been solely 4 rivals left. Set to battle it out on the had been the mysterious Glowing, former Hearthstone professional Jimon, Colombian participant Zeliaser, and Jarla. The final word champion had probably the most in depth esports background of the ultimate 4, ending fifth within the 2022 Hearthstone World Championship.

All of this was within the pursuit of the Parallel Championship trophy, which performs a vinyl file of the sport’s theme tune, in accordance with gaming influencer Jake Fortunate, who was on the occasion.

On the second and remaining day, Parallel Studios introduced that it could launch a cellular app for its buying and selling card recreation—GG’s 2023 recreation of the 12 months—on March 18 for each iOS and Android. It’s presently obtainable through Home windows PC.

As soon as the video games began, Zeliaser took out Glowing in an elimination match earlier than Jarla obtained a clear 3-0 sweep towards Jimon. This led to a deciding match between Zeliaser and Jimon for who would make it to the ultimate towards Jarla, with the Colombian taking a 3-1 victory.

Jarla’s domination continued with one other clear sweep within the remaining over Zelaiser, with the Hearthstone professional taking house $100,000 for himself. It wasn’t all dangerous information for Zelaiser although, as $150,000 was unfold amongst the runners-up on the weekend competitors.

Parallel is a buying and selling card recreation that made its means into open beta in February 2024, later launching onto the Epic Video games Retailer. Quickly, Parallel Studios began its esports push because it seemed to convey gamers of Hearthstone, Magic: The Gathering, and different long-running aggressive card video games over to the crypto title.

Notably, Hearthstone professional and the sport’s third-largest streamer on the time, Thijs “Thijs” Molendijk, introduced that he would help the sport. The transfer led to controversy throughout the Hearthstone group, as followers of Blizzard’s hit card recreation referred to as him a sellout for supporting a crypto recreation—however he defended Parallel and the blockchain gaming mannequin.

Thijs additionally performed within the Prime Championship, putting Ninth-Twelfth—which the professional claims has solely made him hungrier to maintain competing.

And he’ll have probabilities, with Parallel Studios committing one other $1 million in whole prize cash to the upcoming second season of the Parallel League starting this Thursday, with $2 million deliberate for a 3rd season that’ll are available 2026.

Edited by Andrew Hayward