It's pretty apparent that E-sports is definitely booming here in the Philippines with Top Teams for different games are emerging and competing internationally.
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Huawei Technologies have partnered with the World Cyber Arena, a major driver of global E-Sports standardization, for The Faceoff event in BGC where 2 of the top Dota 2 Teams in the Philippines, Execration and Happy Feet Gaming, face-off each other as a great way to promote Huawei's latest Video Streaming Cloud Service called VidPlus.
VidPlus is a subscription based video streaming service that let's consumers stream hollywood movies, funny videos, music videos, high quality and highly rated Chinese movies and documentaries
as well as E-Sports tournaments care of the World Cyber Arena. For just 10php per day, users can stream unlimited content from VidPlus and enjoy watching at the comfort of their mobile phones.
VidPlus is available now for download on Android Playstore and soon on IOS.
This event aims to pique the interest of gamers from the Philippines by making the face-off between Execration and Happy Feet Gaming and all upcoming WCA Tournaments available all throughout the year for users that will signup on VidPlus.
Huawei also showcased the Huawei Nova2i as the perfect partner device for your mobile gaming needs. Ms. Corrine Bacani, Marketing Director of Huawei Device said "Huawei launched the Huawei Nova2i to cater to the lifestyle of today's consumer. It is a new, stylish device that packs powerful features. It is the first device to feature brand new Huawei Full View technology that delivers
a high quality 5.9inch display. You get to watch videos and play games on a wider screen"
And true enough, it holds to its promise. The Huawei Nova2i is a great device to have it has a premium feel and you'll definitely get your money's worth. Not to mention the awesome quality of pictures and videos that it's cameras can take. Bang for the buck!
The whole event consists of Three gaming competition, four sets of street dancing, three onsite lucky draws done every hour.
Hosting the event are e-games veterans namely Riku HQ and Justin "Vill" Villaseran. Two E-sports commentators namely, Shin Boo "Sh1nBoo" Ponferrada and Caisam Yvez F. Nopueto "Wolf" will be giving the blow by blow action and updates.
Exciting times ahead for the E-sports community here in the Philippines with companies like Huawei and World Cyber Arena supporting professional gamers and E-sports all the way.
It's also exciting to have another player in the Video Streaming service like VidPlus. It gives us consumers options and a wide variety of content that we can access and enjoy.
coverage by: Kevin Karl Gabutin Jornacion
for Azrael's Merryland Blog
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In light of Huawei’s latest phone release, they have sponsored a DOTA gaming event highlighting 2 of the Philippines’ top Dota teams! The Face Off event! Was the first competition of this scale. Prizes and giveaways were a plenty, those handed out to the audience included gaming keyboards and mouses. Ones any gamer would be more than happy to own.
Dota would be the only game to make an appearance that day. But we were curious what this event would mean for the rest of the gaming community in the country. What the organizers had to say about it was. “As long as the demand is there, there will be more events like this”. This could be exciting news for those who play other competitive games such as Overwatch and Tekken.
Huawei is definitely making it’s presence known in more ways than one, on top of a new phone release and this event. They also launched a new streaming app with the Philippine consumer in mind. Vidplus is an affordable service that can be availed at 10 pesos a day. On it, consumers can view e-gaming livestreams, both Hollywood and Asian movies, and educational content for kids. It’s definitely an app worth to try considering what more it has to offer compared to those currently in the Philippines.
coverage by: Carla Cab
for Azrael's Merryland
