Ethereum-based buying and selling card recreation Parallel hosted its first-ever Parallel League Championship esports competitors over the weekend, with skilled Hearthstone participant Jaromír "Jarla" Vyskočil taking house first prize, bagging himself $100,000 within the course of. And the favored crypto-infused recreation introduced some huge information alongside the way in which.
The 2-day occasion, hosted on the HyperX Enviornment in Las Vegas, noticed 16 high Parallel gamers face off with $250,000 on the road. This got here after gamers fought for qualification through a six-month aggressive league, the place they earned factors by in-game tournaments, ladder matches, main tournaments, and extra.
Your first ever Parallel TCG World Champion and taking house $100,000
What a second for @JarlaHS pic.twitter.com/0oaaXkYeM9
— Jake Fortunate (@JakeSucky) March 3, 2025
On the primary day, Parallel launched a reveal trailer for its upcoming third-person extraction shooter, asserting the sport to be known as Parallel: Sanctuary. Beforehand codenamed Venture Tau Ceti, the sport is being constructed on B3, a layer-3 gaming community on Base—Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 community.
By the top of the day Sunday, there have been solely 4 rivals left. Set to battle it out on the had been the mysterious Glowing, former Hearthstone professional Jimon, Colombian participant Zeliaser, and Jarla. The last word champion had probably the most in depth esports background of the ultimate 4, ending fifth within the 2022 Hearthstone World Championship.
All of this was within the pursuit of the Parallel Championship trophy, which performs a vinyl file of the sport’s theme tune, in keeping with gaming influencer Jake Fortunate, who was on the occasion.
The $250,000 Parallel Championship trophy took 2 months to make and is a vinyl that really performs the sport's theme music
Tremendous dope idea pic.twitter.com/pEtdy6Gizz
— Jake Fortunate (@JakeSucky) March 1, 2025
On the second and ultimate day, Parallel Studios introduced that it might launch a cell app for its buying and selling card recreation—GG’s 2023 recreation of the 12 months—on March 18 for each iOS and Android. It’s at present out there through Home windows PC.
As soon as the video games began, Zeliaser took out Glowing in an elimination match earlier than Jarla acquired a clear 3-0 sweep in opposition to Jimon. This led to a deciding match between Zeliaser and Jimon for who would make it to the ultimate in opposition to Jarla, with the Colombian taking a 3-1 victory.
Jarla’s domination continued with one other clear sweep within the ultimate over Zelaiser, with the Hearthstone professional taking house $100,000 for himself. It wasn’t all unhealthy information for Zelaiser although, as $150,000 was unfold amongst the runners-up on the weekend competitors.
I’m THE FIRST EVER @ParallelTCG WORLD CHAMPION!!! 🎉🎉 pic.twitter.com/GZP1IHSOSS
— Jaromír Vyskočil (@JarlaHS) March 3, 2025
Parallel is a buying and selling card recreation that made its method into open beta in February 2024, later launching onto the Epic Video games Retailer. Quickly, Parallel Studios began its esports push because it appeared to deliver gamers of Hearthstone, Magic: The Gathering, and different long-running aggressive card video games over to the crypto title.
Notably, Hearthstone professional and the sport’s third-largest streamer on the time, Thijs "Thijs" Molendijk, introduced that he would help the sport. The transfer led to controversy inside the Hearthstone neighborhood, as followers of Blizzard’s hit card recreation known as him a sellout for supporting a crypto recreation—however he defended Parallel and the blockchain gaming mannequin.
Thijs additionally performed within the Prime Championship, putting Ninth-Twelfth—which the professional claims has solely made him hungrier to maintain competing.
And he’ll have possibilities, with Parallel Studios committing one other $1 million in complete prize cash to the upcoming second season of the Parallel League starting this Thursday, with $2 million deliberate for a 3rd season that’ll are available 2026.
Edited by Andrew Hayward