Mortal Kombat 1 is among the hottest preventing releases of the 12 months, however what about its aggressive aspect? Many of the biggest fighting games have their very own circuits, however to date MK 1 has simply had scattershot tournaments. That’s altering now. We’ve simply learnt concerning the MK 1 Professional Kompetition. It’s a brand new esports circuit for the title that’s kicking off with East Coast Throwdown.
The MK 1 Professional Kompetition shall be an overarching circuit with offline and on-line qualifiers. It’ll end up with a grand finale the place we see the perfect gamers competing collectively. That is the way it’s going to work.
The Mortal Kombat 1 Professional Kompetition will kick off with its first qualifier at East Coast Throwdown. This occasion shall be greater than a one-off match, it’ll as an alternative put gamers onto an ongoing leaderboard. Between then and the ultimate, we’ll see one other 10 on-line regionals happen, plus a last-chance qualifier. Different in-person occasions will contribute to this leaderboard too with the best-performing gamers making it all over to the ultimate.
The Grand Finals themselves are nonetheless a bit extra mysterious. NeverRealm Studios is but to launch the complete ruleset or a breakdown for a way the factors work. We will possible assume it’ll be a one-on-one preventing recreation occasion, however outdoors of that there is perhaps another particulars we’re nonetheless ready to find out about.
We’ve already seen fairly just a few early and launch MK 1 esports occasions. The sport is enjoying fairly properly as a aggressive fighter. Getting this greater circuit although will deliver it in-line with tournaments just like the Arc World Tour or Capcom Cup. Hopefully, this can assist MK 1 to proceed to deliver the very best MK gamers in to compete.
This shall be a wider circuit going for just a few months. On the finish of it, it looks like there shall be 20 gamers general making it to the Finals. We’re not fairly positive when that shall be simply but, however we’ll possible have near a 12 months of aggressive occasions earlier than it begins up.