Vainglory enters the world of e-sports with the help of ESL

Your touchscreen-tapping skills could soon earn you a cash prize.

Developer Super EvilMegacorp has announced a partnership with e-sports organization ESL for the Vainglory Cup Series. Together, the two companies will put together a tournament for Vainglory (read our review), the multiplayer online arena battler for touchscreen devices, that starts May 13 in Europe. The finals take place June 14, and the winning team till get a cash prize as well as Shield tablets from Nvidia. This is Vainglory’s first official e-sports event, and it will go a long way toward proving that competitive gaming, which is expected to generate more than $450 million in revenue by 2017, is viable on tablets and smartphones. Additionally, Super Evil Megacorp obviously wants Vainglory to start earning money like League of Legends and Dota 2, which both earn hundreds of millions of dollars annually and are massively popular as e-sports.