Kathmandu, August 17
Nepal’s Horaa Esports has finished eighth at the PUBG Mobile World Cup, part of the Esports World Cup held in Paris, France.
The “smash rule” was in effect on the final day of the finals, and the outcome wasn’t settled until the very last match. Horaa secured eighth place after totalling 109 points across 18 matches.
With the eighth-place finish, Horaa took home a combined $127,500 in prize money, $57,500 earned during the group stage plus $70,000 for the finals. At today’s exchange rate, $127,000 works out to roughly Rs 1.94 crore (about 19.4 million rupees).
On the first day of the finals, Horaa scored 19 points across 4 matches; on the second day, 39 points across 8 matches; and on the third day, the team put in a strong showing, adding 51 points. In the first match of day three, Horaa scored nothing, but bounced back with 21 and 14 points in the second and third matches. Without support in the fourth match’s zone, the team managed just 1 point, followed by 4 points in the fifth match and 11 in the sixth.
On the first day, Horaa opened with 6 points in the first match, then 10 points (5 kills, 5 placement points) in the second, and 3 points (2 kills, 1 placement point) in the third, before failing to score in the fourth. On the second day, Horaa earned 7 points in the first match, 15 in the second, and 6 in the third, before a rough stretch from the fourth through seventh matches, including a scoreless fourth match, 1 point each in the fifth and sixth, and 3 points in the seventh. The team closed day two with 6 points in its final match, finishing that day in 11th place overall with 58 points across 12 matches.
Horaa advanced directly to the grand finals from the group stage, finishing among the top five of Group B’s 16 teams after last Sunday’s group matches, placing fourth overall with 98 points, including one chicken dinner. That fourth-place group finish had already guaranteed the team $57,500 in prize money.
Turkey’s IHC Esports (referred to in the source as ESTG Esports) won the grand finale, taking home $500,000. All 16 teams competing in the PUBG Mobile grand finals received prize money: the champions earned $500,000, the runner-up $250,000, and third place $150,000. Fourth place received $120,000, fifth $100,000, sixth $90,000, seventh $80,000, and eighth (Horaa) $70,000. Teams finishing ninth through 16th received $60,000, $55,000, $50,000, $45,000, $40,000, $35,000, $30,000, and $25,000, respectively.
In last year’s edition of the World Cup, Horaa finished ninth and won over $127,500 in prize money.
