Ben Parker Chin won $500K in a Candy Crush Saga All Stars tournment.
Ben Parker Chin won $500K in a Candy Crush Saga All Stars tournment.
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How King stoked Candy Crush Saga fans with its All Stars tournament | interview

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 8 min

The best Candy Crush Saga players in the world recently converged on Los Angeles for a tournament.

The Candy Crush All Stars event featured a $1 million prize pool, with $500,000 designated for the tournament winner. Ben Parker Chin, 23, from Ohio came out with the top honors. Parker Chin beat out more than 15 million people who competed in the tournament.

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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.