The Indian gaming community is at long last getting their second in the Sun. As we prepare ourselves for the third wave, individuals are proceeding to remain inside. The two amateurs and pros are normally sharpening their online gaming skills. Today, gamers need platforms that can furnish them with competitive exposure to help in their Esports journey as an expanding number of youthful video gamers see competitive gaming as a lifelong chance, as opposed to simply a sporting movement. As indicated by a study by the All India Gaming Federation, there were 365 million online gamers in the country in 2020, with the number expected to ascend to 510 million by 2022.

GamerJi expects to put India on the worldwide Esports map by tending to and empowering hopeful gamers and giving them developing competitive gaming prospects.

Established in 2019 by gaming master and serial entrepreneur, Soham Thacker, GamerJi is India’s driving Esports competition stage where users can play tournaments of their favorite games, have matches, communicate, share content and win prizes. Settled in Ahmedabad, the organization has united strategies like enrollments, player management, and payments, making it a one-stop stage for e-sports tournaments.

GamerJi upgrades gamers’ involvement in its one of a kind component like gaming profile, content sharing, group chats, communication, and a cross-game leaderboard that assist gamers with keeping up with their gaming details.

Preceding launching Gamerji, Soham established creative start-ups that included ‘Just Mexican’, an FnB chain of Mexican fast-food restaurants, ‘Fixpocket’, a freelancing service marketplace, just as ‘Fantasyji’, a fantasy sports site. During his excursion with Fantasyji, Soham considered the be of Esports as a segment and the rising interest for it among Esports competitors in India.

Soham Thacker, Founder, GamerJi says, “The Indian gaming community is changing and developing at a quick speed, empowering budding gamers to sharpen their online gaming skills, strengthening existing gaming communities.

Competitive gaming platforms like our own give a traditional area for desiring and potential Esports athletes. We at GamerJi trust in overcoming any issues between novice to proficient level gamers through our tournaments.”

Tournaments & Engagement
To access and play on GamerJi is basic, convenient, and engaging: Join on the platform, select the game of choice, take an interest in challenges and win prizes.

The pandemic has sped up Gamerji’s details. The Company has seen a 7X growth in rush hour gridlock since last year. GamerJi mobile application accessible on App Store and Google Play Store has over 1.3 million users and has led more than 22,000 matches since its origin and has more than 125 tournaments day by day for games like Call of Duty and Free Fire among others. On average, time spent on Gamerji’s application is 37 minutes. The platform has joined forces with near 200 private organizers just as Indian gaming influencers to have tweaked Esports tournaments.

The main GamerJi Community Challenge GCC 1.0, which ran this present year from January 23 to January 31, highlighted 6 games and a prize pool of Rs. 1 lakh, drawn in more than 21,000 players, and came to over 7.3 million influencers with a 67% commitment rate.

GamerJi recently launched its subsequent Community Challenge GCC 2.0 which saw one of the greatest participation numbers under a single occasion, with more than 30,000 registrations, outperforming GCC 1.0. GCC 2.0 highlighted a prize pool of Rs 3,00,000 and is comprised of probably the most famous multiplayer games which include Clash Royale, Call of Duty Mobile, FIFA Mobile, WCC3, and Ludo. GamerJi has likewise been an essential part of F20 Cohort Company with Stadia Ventures, a worldwide Sports Innovation Hub for beginning phase investment in sports and Esports.

Funding
In Jan 2020, GamerJi raised friends and family capital from La Gajjar Group, an investment group situated in Ahmedabad. In October 2020, GamerJi raised seed investment subsidizing an undisclosed sum from Unicorn India Ventures, a Mumbai-based beginning phase VC firm, and Lead Angels Network. The organization intends to raise Pre-Series A capital towards the current year’s end.

Future Plans
Soham Thacker, Founder, GamerJi adds, “We will soon be introducing progress highlights interesting with GamerJi that assist with hoisting the gamer experience, work on their gameplay and assess games that best suit their skill sets. New components include Gaming statistics, Insights and Tips, Clan Creation, Collegiate leagues, World of Esports and Fan following.”

GamerJi platform is seeing quick development and is forcefully hoisting the inter-college Esports scene in the country with its college gaming league – CGL which has associated with more than 100 college groups since March 2021. CGL competitions held in Apr this year saw more than 50 colleges including BITS – Pilani, Symbiosis Pune, Delhi university, and nineteen IITs among others.

The organization intends to have three inter-college CGL competitions and two GamerJi Community Challenge – GCC by the current year’s end.

Credits: ADgully