Arena of Valor‘s International Championship will take place this winter, in Thailand.

The premier tournament will feature four additional teams and new regions including India, on top of its $600K prize pool.

Tencent is working hard to establish the game’s esports scene, as mobile esports continue to grow in western territories.

Tencent Games’ mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), Arena of Valor, is expanding its international foothold with the recent announcement of this year’s International Championship. This premier tournament will include sixteen teams from various regions around the globe—including, for the first time, India—and a $600K prize pool.

Arena of Valor originally launched in Asia in 2016 and has been slowly growing its global profile. Now almost a year after its release in Europe and North America, Tencent is working hard to establish the game’s esports scene. This primarily lies in its regional leagues: the Valor Series in North America, Latin America, and Europe, and half-dozen more across Asia. Capping off these leagues is the World Cup in the summer and International Championship in the winter. This does not include the expanding regional league for Honor of Kings, the original Chinese version of the game.

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This year’s Arena of Valor International Championship, taking place in late November and early December, will add four more teams. In addition, new regions, such as India, have been coupled with a robust system of regional championships and qualifier events. It will also be taking place in Thailand, where the game’s popularity is significant.

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“Thailand is… home to some of the most active and passionate Arena of Valor fans in the world,” said Ramon Hermann, director of esports at Tencent America. “This event is the marquee opportunity to capture that fandom and project it out to a global audience.”

Despite slow commercial growth in the NA region, the game’s international footprint has risen significantly. It remains one of the most popular games in the world, having generated $140M in revenue outside of China. The game’s esports scene has also established important partnerships in different regions, such as with ESL and AT&T in North America, and Globe Telecom in the Philippines. It has also made the jump to the Nintendo Switch, and was one of six esports to debut as demonstration sports at this year’s Asia Games over the summer.

Summer also saw Arena of Valor‘s World Cup event, a $500K prize pool tournament which took place in Los Angeles in partnership with TCL Chinese Theaters. In many ways, the World Cup was aimed at increasing attention for the game in North America. The International Championship, by comparison, will take place in a region where the game already has a strong foothold. Of course, the addition of an Indian team is especially significant, given that region’s growing profile within esports.