Friday, June 13, 2025

They finally saw the color of their money

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BIG winners from the inaugural Dark League Studios’ Estudyante Esports: National Championships have received their respective cash prizes over the weekend as the intense esports tourney among universities and colleges across the country continues this year for its second season.

National Capital Region and Luzon representatives dominated the four esports event—Tekken 8 Tournament, MLBB, League of Legends and Valorant, and received their respective cash winnings in the awarding of prizes at the DLS office in Quezon City last Sunday after the finals last February.

Jean Cyrus Villapana AKA “Zaskleee” from City College of Angeles ruled the Tekken 8 Tournament and took home P50,000 prize as Faith College from Batangas bagged a whopping total of P350,000 reward for capturing the MLBB title.

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On the other hand, Our Lady of Fatima University which reigned in the League of Legends contest and De La Salle University Green Aces who rose as champions in the Valorant were awarded with a total of P350,000 respectively.

DLS aims to strengthen the esports grassroots program in the Philippines, led by DLS co-founder and chairman Bobby Rosales, DLS co-founder and chief marketing officer Alfrancis Chua, DLS co-founder and CEO AC Valdenor, DLS co-founder and chief revenue officer Cherry Valdenor, Estudyante Esports program director Alexander Kibanoff and DLS program director Arlene Casteneda.

The maiden National Championships were participated by student gamers from 600 schools in Metro Manila, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao in the months-long meet.

“Siguro I would say, in a short saying, it’s a dream come true for us. There were a lot of esports activators who really wants to be engaged in sports. But I think we were the ones who were very successful and very proud of how the team did in terms of partnering with the different schools that we have in the Philippines,” AC Valdenor said. “Imagine getting their school athletes and residents (to) agree for them to represent the school, it’s really different kasi here in what we do in the National Championships, the approach is different from what the schools in Metro Manila versus the schools in the Philippines.

Mahirap talaga sila. You cannot just say na, representative ka na without getting the approval of their school. So, we’re very proud that we were able to actually get that kind of agreement from the schools and we’re very proud that we were able to launch something like that here for the Philippines,” he added.

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