Challenger Series brings in a new concept called CTMK better known as “Challenge the Mighty King” where a Challenger team is chosen through the community voting system to compete with the top team called the “Mighty King”. The tournament is brought to you by Cooler Master, Amazon India, Seagate, IGC and Drag2Death.
Cooler Master Challenger Series will be played between top 8 teams that qualify from an Open Online Qualifier. The Winner of the Open qualifier becomes the “Mighty King” for the first week. Week over week new Challengers emerge to take on the Mighty King. Hence, the Mighty King has to win every Bo3 match that is played weekly to retain the top position throughout. As long as a team retains its top position they keep on winning cash and other cool prizes from our sponsors on a weekly basis.
If the Mighty King loses to a Challenger team, the Mighty King team is taken down and a 4 Weeks Cool-Down is applied. During these 4 weeks, the community cannot vote for this team and will have other teams that can be voted to become new Challengers. Week over week the voting options w.r.t teams becomes narrow so that other teams get a chance to be elected.
The team that wins becomes the new Mighty King and a new journey begins. After the cool-down period is over the considered team’s nomination becomes active in the voting system and they could be picked up once again by the community as a Challenger. If the said team loses again then they will be eliminated from the Challenger Series.
Challenger Series is one such event where the top 8 teams compete not only for weekly cash prizes and goodies but also for sheer dominance by retaining their top position throughout or for the maximum number of weeks. There are a lot of possibilities and a lot of scenarios in which the event may proceed and that’s what makes it more interesting.