In line with the aim of promoting and expanding the frontier for e-gaming in Africa. Gamr, an online subscription platform that allows gamers to interact with each other and enables tournament organizers to host events, held e-gaming competition at the just concluded Lagos Comic-Com, Convention, a festival celebrating the finest of Africa's creative talents as expressed in Comics, Animation, Films, Books and Gaming.
The event which was held at the NECA house in Ikeja, hosted over 250 gamers that registered online pre-event, which qualifies them to compete in various games like FIFA21, PES, Tekken 7 and Street Fighter 5. Each of the gamers went through the designed double and single elimination stages and through to the qualifiers and finals which the winners of each categories went home with prize money and overall winner won an international ticket to compete in Feja 2021 competition.
Speaking at the event, Chief Operating Officer Sholakunmi Adenipebi disclosed that, Africa is the final frontier for esports and Gamr is realizing this opportunity and providing the necessary content to drive the participation of other gaming professionals. African gamers have embraced us, and we have built our community to over 60,000 and have hosted tournaments featuring thousands of gamers from across Africa. We have also built strategic partnerships with stakeholders across the globe. One of which is Lagos Comic-Con which we have been part of since the inception and have continued to provide the platform for interaction
He added that, we are excited to have the support of our new investors and will push to continue scaling across the continent and provide new opportunities for gamers and tournament organizers.
In his comment, French Ambassador to Nigeria, Jérôme Pasquier, commended the Lagos Comic-Con and Gamr Africa for coming up with such an innovation to encourage and empower Nigerian youths to bring out the creativity in them and deploying their energy to the right channel.
Mr. Pasquier charged that creating such convergence like this will help address various negativity facing youths in the society and he was happy that his consulate is contributing to the great idea.
Esports is growing rapidly around the world, and the sector is expected to be worth $1.5 billion by 2023. Annually, Nigerian consumers spend $100 million on gaming and interest in gaming and esports continues to accelerate across Africa.
However, Africa lacks much of the infrastructure critical for the widespread adoption of esports and African gamers often do not have access to the substantial prizes available to gamers globally.
Gamr is challenging this through its subscription service platform, which enables gamers to participate in esports tournaments and allows organizers to reach players across Africa. It is also assisting talented players in progressing from hobbyist participants to esports professionals by providing coaching and access to player analytics on its platform using artificial intelligence technology.
The startup is also increasing the financial opportunities for African gamers and has distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money to previous tournament winners
About Gamr
Spun out of Techplus, Africa’s largest technology event, Gamr is an online subscription platform that allows gamers to interact with each other and enables tournament organizers to host events.
Gamr also organizes esports tournaments, including Techplus esports, which hosts over 4000 gamers annually. Gamr has over 60,000 community members across Africa and has paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money to African gamers.
Gamr offers coaching to players using artificial intelligence and provides players with real-time data on performance.
To participate, register here https://gamr.africa
Join the online community @gamr.africa @gamrafrica
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