North American teams for the Clash Royale League.
North American teams for the Clash Royale League.
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Clash Royale League will kick off August 20 with a $1 million prize pool

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Supercell is on schedule to launch its fall season of its Clash Royale League on August 20, with a prize pool that will total $1 million.

The Helsinki, Finland-based company hopes that mobile game esports will take off as awareness of the competitive play around Clash Royale grows, said Tim Ebner, head of esports at Supercell, in an interview with GamesBeat. Clash Royale is a realtime multiplayer online battle arena style game, and it is a big contributor to Supercell’s annual $2 billion in revenue.

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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.