The Arena of Survival Winter 2020, a regional tournament for mobile game Free Fire, concluded Sunday with esport team HEAVY taking home the championship title with 168 points and 27 kills.

Vietnam's Free Fire esport team HEAVY celebrate for winning the Arena of Survival Winter 2020 in HCMC, November 1, 2020.

According to the tournament format, the recent victory helped HEAVY advance straight to the FFCS grand finals on November 29, joining six top teams from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Taiwan and Thailand.

Vietnam's V Gaming and Burst The Sky, second and third rank teams in the Arena of Survival Winter, will go head to head with 10 other qualifiers in the play-in rounds starting November 22. Only the top five teams will be selected.

The final 12 teams will compete to bring home the $300,000 cash prize.

Singapore-based publisher Garena previously said the flagship international series for this year was a replacement for Free Fire World Series.

Free Fire is an online multi-shooter game, consisting of up to 50 participants who parachute onto an island, trying their best to eliminate one another.

V.League to resume next month

The top professional football league in Vietnam - V.League 1 - is likely to resume by September, according to the organisers.

Van Hau says goodbye to Dutch football, heads home for V.League

Vietnamese defender Doan Van Hau will bid farewell to Dutch team SC Heerenveen and repatriate to play for V.League side Hanoi FC in the second half of the Vietnamese top flight season, according to an official announcement from Hanoi FC on Friday afternoon (July 10).

V.League to resume on June 5 with only one relegation slot

The 2020 V.League 1 will restart on June 5 and be divided into two phases, but there will be only one relegation slot instead of 1.5 slots as initially planned.

LS Holdings becomes new sponsor of pro football leagues

LS Holdings of the Republic of Korea signed a sponsorship deal for the 2020 professional football leagues with the Vietnam Professional Football Joint Stock Company (VPF) in Hanoi on February 6.

Source: VnExpress