Earlier this year the Auto Chess makers Dragonest and Drodo Studio announced first-ever multi-platform Auto Chess tournament for their rapidly growing Auto Chess mobile and currently in-development PC version. The tournament, called as Auto Chess Invitational 2019, amassed a total prize pool of $1,000,000 for 32 players to compete on in the Grand Final, which is to be held in October 25-27 in Shanghai.
Tournament Schedule
| Group | Date | Game |
| A | October 25, 2019 | Game 1 – 10:00 AM Game 2 – 11:00 AM Game 3 – 12:00 PM |
| B | October 25, 2019 | Game 1 – 1:00 PM Game 2 – 2:00 PM Game 3 – 3:00 PM |
| C | October 25, 2019 | Game 1 – 4:00 PM Game 2 – 5:00 PM Game 3 – 6:00 PM |
| D | October 25, 2019 | Game 1 – 7:00 PM Game 2 – 8:00 PM Game 3 – 9:00 PM |
| Semi Finals | October 26, 2019 | Game 1 – 1:00 PM Game 2 – 2:00 PM Game 3 – 3:00 PM Game 4 – 4:00 PM |
| Semi Finals | October 26, 2019 | Game 1 – 5:00 PM Game 2 – 6:00 PM Game 3 – 7:00 PM Game 4 – 8:00 PM |
| Finals | October 27, 2019 | Game 1 – 3:00 PM Game 2 – 4:00 PM Game 3 – 5:00 PM Game 4 – 6:00 PM Game 5 – 7:00 PM Game 6 – 8:00 PM |
The Grand Final venue is at 9F Super Brand Mall in Shanghai, China. Ticket pricing plan of the event is as follows:
Chinese online ticket platform Daimai.cn expected to start selling on September 30.
Single-day ticket: CNY 29-39 (~$4-5.5)
- 5000 free candy
- limited chessboard “Hidden Dragon Place”.
October 25-27 weekend package: CNY 79 (~$11)
- 15 000 free candy
- limited chessboard “Hidden Dragon Place” + exclusive messenger.
Live Activity
During each game, audiences can choose 3 players they like. If the selected player gets the top three scores, the audience can use the points to redeem the corresponding prizes at the on-site exchange booth.
Point list
- Champion: 10 points
- 2nd place: 7 points
- 3rd place: 5 points
- The theoretical maximum score per game is 22 points.
- 12 games on the first day, the highest score is 264 points
- 8 games the second day, the highest score is 176 points
- 6 games on the third day, the highest score is 132 points
A total of 26 games. The highest theoretical score: 26*22=572 points
Prize redeem list:
Players who achieve the following points range will received these prizes.
- iPhone 11 Pro, 550 points
- Orange rare chess board or equivalent candy / gingerbread man: 450 points
- Invitational Player’s Shirt: 380 points
- Invitational Custom T-Shirt: 300 points
- 20000 candy: 200 points
- 10000 candy: 120 points
- 5000 candy: 60 points
- 3000 candy: 30 points
The tournament is organized in cooperation with international Auto Chess partners IMBA!, SIN ESPORTS, GLL, VNG, Funease, GLOBO, and ESforce.
Auto Chess
Auto Chess started as a game modification within Dota earlier this year and spawned the “autobattlers” game genre, and in doing so, becoming one of the fastest growing game genres in the world today. The original mod makers Drodo Studio teamed up with Dragonest in developing Auto Chess for mobile and PC standalone versions.