E-Sports Online event winners awarded

PESHAWAR: The concluding ceremony of First Khyber Pakhtunkhwa E-Sports Online Championship held at the Peshawar Sports Complex here on Monday.

Organised by the Directorate of Youth Affairs and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa E-gaming Association under the auspices of Sports and Tourism Department, over 867 players from across the province, including tribal districts, participated in the three-day spectacular e-games gala.

The activity was aimed at providing a platform to the youths to engage them in healthy activities, including entertainment, learning opportunities of modern e-games and positive use of e-sports on computers.

The youths participated in different e-games, including Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), Tekken 7, Dota 2 and others. The Kikas team clinched first position the Dota 2 game and awarded with a prize of Rs50,000, a team from Karak stood second and was given Rs30,000 while MWB team won the third position and received Rs20,000.

Similarly, the Portal team stood first in PUBG and awarded with a prize of Rs50,000, the 521TMW clinched second position and received Rs30,000 while 4VXTFD team got third position and was given Rs20,000. In Tekken 7 game, Abdur Rahman was given Rs30,000, Hamza Naveed Rs20,000 and Muhammad Shehryar Rs10,000 for grabbing first, second and third position, respectively.