Ubique Networks, a gaming platform company headquartered in Sydney and Toronto, is putting up US$10,000 in prize money for the CounterStrike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournament at the Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo, Canada’s largest gaming expo.
The expo, hosted by Enthusiast Gaming, starts Friday and wraps up Sunday at the International Centre in Toronto. Ubique is known for its Swarmio Esports Platform – a vertically integrated “lag-sensing” platform, which will be used during this weekend’s expo.
“We are proud to partner with Enthusiast Gaming to co-sponsor EGLX's Counter Strike tournament,” Vijai Karthigesu, Founder and CEO of Ubique, said in a statement. “As esports continues to grow in global popularity, Ubique's latency-optimized and feature-rich Swarmio Esports Platform is a perfect solution for both LAN and online tournament organizers and gamers.”
Ubique, which received $1 million in equity funding in 2016, aims to solve a huge problem with multi-player online games. When players in different parts of the world are playing one another, the system is much faster for the player closest to the server, giving that player an unfair advantage.
Ubique’s solution is to develop a network of remote servers, so the players are always playing on a server based roughly equal distances from each of them. In October, the company won the Sydney Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 Export Achievement Award, recognizing its global reach.
Over 15,000 gamers, enthusiasts, and developers are expected to attend the gaming expo this weekend. The CS:GO tournament series began with an open 64-Team Online Qualifier in early February on Ubique’s Swarmio platform.
“Their online qualifiers created a lot of momentum heading into our final physical event and the Swarmio platform will offer our competitors a level of lagless gaming they have yet to experience,"said Menashe Kestenbaum, the Founder and CEO of Enthusiast Gaming in the statement.
This week’s series will start with a 32-team qualifier tournament and conclude with the final eight teams on Sunday. The top three winners of the tournament will receive $6000, $3000 and $1000 cash prizes respectively.
Besides CS:GO, EGLX will also host Hearthstone, Super Smash Bros, Halo 5, Dragonball FighterZ and Street Fighter tournaments.
You can watch the twitch stream of the tournament here.
