Twenty gaming cafes all around India recently hosted an esports event for Nvidia and Gigabyte. Finally, the Nvidia Reflex iCafe Attack tournament came to a close, and Mumbai’s Global Gaming Cafe took home a sizable portion of the INR 2,000,000 pot.
The 2024 Nvidia Reflex iCafe Crash
Seventy teams from cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Shillong participated in the Counter-Strike 2 esports comp. Seventy teams participated using gaming PCs equipped with Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Super GPUs, thanks to a partnership between Nvidia and Gigabyte.
The top 32 teams headed to the “National Playoffs” after facing off in LAN matchups. These playoffs were held every weekend in April of 2024.
By beating Colosseum Cafe of Bangalore in the finals, Global Gaming Cafe gained entry to the championship game. A 3-0 drubbing was in order as Mumbai’s Global Gaming Cafe completely humiliated their rivals. A sum of 1,00,000 Indian rupees (INR) was awarded to the victorious squad. The prize money for the runners-up, Colosseum Cafe, was sixty thousand British rupees. Team Immortal Cafe, which came in second place, received INR 40,000.
We are thrilled to wrap up the first-ever NVIDIA Reflex iCafe Attack, bringing Counter-Strike 2 esports action to cafes in every nook and corner of the country. As leaders in the manufacturing of graphic cards loved by gamers worldwide, we are glad to have organized a grassroots-level esports tournament bringing together esports enthusiasts in an epic showdown, enabling us to connect directly with the Indian PC gaming community.