There’s a worldwide Solitaire competition going on right now, and the prize is insane
In one of the strangest news you might read today, there seems to be a world championship in the famous Solitaire card game on smartphones, and you will not believe the amount of prizes to be distributed
Organized by Skillz, an emerging e-sports company, the Solitaire World Championship brings together 40,000 players from around the world through Solitaire Cube on smartphones. This is not only one of the biggest e-sports competitions of the year, it is also the biggest in the history of card games as we know it.
“The popularity of solitaire made it a natural fit for Skillz, a platform that makes esports accessible to everyone,” Tether Studios CEO Tim O’Neil said in a statement. “When we built Solitaire Cube, we never imagined we would one day host the largest competition in the most popular game of all time.”
The awards will be awarded to the top 1,000 players in terms of numbers. Skillz feels that companies should award prizes to as many participants as possible, rather than being exclusive to first-tier players, an idea that the TSM player at this year’s Super Smash Bros. Melee said when he said he would distribute part of his prize to the lowest players ranked in the event.
“In keeping with our mission, we designed this event to be accessible to everyone,” Skillz CEO Andrew Paradise said. “Only 24 teams had the opportunity to win prizes in the League of Legends World Championship, but for a game like solitaire with billions of players, the tournament structure needs to be more inclusive.”
The awarding of prizes will give the first place owner approximately $ 10,000, while the prize will gradually be reduced to $ 2,000 for the tenth place, up to $ 1,000 to the 20th place, while the winners will receive 50 to 1,000 prizes ranging from $ 250 to $ 1.
Annie has announced that the number of Solitaire players reaches 17 million people a day, making the card game that we have never seen so much attention one of the most popular games of the day, surpassing the reputation of Fortnite.
