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Clash Royale gets an esports league from Plexchat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Plexchat has launched its Path2Pro esports league for Supercell’s popular Clash Royale mobile game. The effort is part of an attempt to establish mobile games as a thriving part of the esports business, which Newzoo predicts will hit $2.5 billion by 2020. It’s also a recognition that amateur players need a better path to becoming professional esports athletes in the competitive Clash Royale rankings.

So Redwood City, California-based Plexchat has decided to provide the ecosystem and establish partnerships to make an independent esports league work. Plexchat is creating the Path2Pro league on its own, without explicit permission from Helsinki-based Supercell, but it has kept Supercell informed of its plans, said Plexchat CEO Shawn Foust in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.