India Gaming Carnival Makes A Splash

Supposedly one of the biggest and the most extravagant things to hit the world of Indian E-Sports in a long time. It is one of those extremely rare occasions, which so far have been non-existent in the Indian scene. $30,000 USD have been put up to be battled over and the Indian gamers have much more than they could have ever wished for.




Starting off on April 6, the 3-day extravaganza set up over a sprawling twenty-two acres of land promises to be India's largest gaming and electronics expo, including product launches and loads of entertainment.

The organization expects 200,000 attendees and about 20,000 gamers to mark their presence in the entire duration of the event. The total prize purse of the enitre event, including other games as well, is of INR 1,50,00,000 which equates to about 300,000$. The event also includes numerous other games like Starcraft 2, Call Of Duty 4, Counter Strike 1.6 and many more.

The carnival is probably the first impression that India would make on the global Dota scene and the E-Sports scene in general.


The event was initially plagued by an extremely dissatisfied Indian DotA community. The reason being the low prize pool for DotA, which earlier amounted to a total of $10,000 USD. This amount, albeit huge by Indian standards, was just a fraction of the $40,000 that the other team based games were allotted. That issue has now been resolved due to a proactive community that rallied hard to get the organizer's attention.

Since then, the organizers have stepped up and have also taken into consideration the issue of having DotA and not Valve's Dota 2. To gauge the situation accurately they have issued a Facebook opinion poll regarding the issue.


Officially, this is 5 times BIGGER than Dreamhack !”

The total prize money is INR 1.5 Crore. Its divided into various games and tournaments. Regarding each of the games' prize money, its divided into a ratio of 3:1 for the winner and the 2nd place i,e.: For a prize of 20 lakhs, the winner will get 15 lakhs and the runner up will get 5 lakhs.

We have finalized about 150 top gaming clans from all across the world and official invitations to all of them will be sent very soon. E-sports in India is just 3% explored. With a platform as huge as IGC, we believe that the untapped potential will soon be realized and India will emerge as a major market for the gaming scenario in the coming years.

As far as games are concerned, DOTA , CS 1.6, will surely be there. There is a huge debate going on for including either StarCraft 2 of Battlefield 3 OR both of them in the tournament. Officially, this is 5 times BIGGER than Dreamhack !

Registrations begin on February 15. Once the registrations are done, invitations will be sent out to the international teams. Until then you can vote for the game you would like to see in this tournament.

GosuGamers will keep you updated with the latest happenings regarding this as and when reporting situations occur.