GEARING up for this year’s CONQuest Festival which will be held on the 23rd and 24th of July in SMX Convention Center Manila, AcadArena will host the prominent gaming and pop culture convention. It will be a weekend filled with gaming, live music, industry panels, booths, and more. AcadArena will also cover the grand finale of the Alliance Games (A-Games).

The First Quest

The event will feature Kyedae Shymko who is one of the biggest Twitch streamers in the world and a content creator from 100 Thieves, an esports organization whose gamers competed in the world championships in Call of Duty, VALORANT, and  League of Legends (LoL). She first announced her attendance at the festival during her stream last March. Shymko will also arrange a meet and greet with her fans during the event. Moreover, she gave a hint that her partner, Tyson “TenZ” Ngo, a fellow content creator and a Valorant professional player for Sentinels, might also be in attendance. 

Bringing the A-Game

AcadArena will also host the grand finale of the A-Games which is considered as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) of E-Sports. The tournament will cover 57 campus gaming communities that will compete for a prize pool of PHP500,000 and scholarship opportunities for the teams who will perform well in five game titles such as: Valorant, Call of Duty: Mobile (CODM), LoL, League of Legends: Wild Rift (WR), and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB). 

One of the teams to look out for is Viridis Arcus which is the current Valorant champions of AcadArena, led by Xavier “Xavi8k” Juan. They aim to secure their fourth consecutive trophy with their two new additions in the group, Aaron “Fission” Sablay and Derrcik “Realit” Ong. The first half of the kick offs started last Apr. 23. The tournament consists of major events that will be streamed via Twitch on Saturday and Sunday while the minor events are scheduled on Friday starting from 17th of June to 24th of July. 

On Pause

The last festival was held on Jun. 22 to 23 in 2019 at the Iloilo Convention Center with over 7,500 participants. The event covered QuestTalks which is a series of panels and workshops. They also had a Creative Corner which is a bazaar that presented over 50 merchants and artists, and open tournaments for game titles like NBA2K, Tekken, and MLBB.

CONQuest Festival 2022, organized by AcadArena is an organization for esports education and campus gaming. On Dec. 2019, the Dota 2 squad from Our Lady of Fatima University (OLFU) was given an opportunity to participate at the World University Cyber Games in China. The organization’s achievements and other events are posted on their official website, https://www.acadarena.com/. The event might not have started yet but streamers, gamers, and other audiences are anticipating for the most-awaited event already.