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Realising The Dream Of Amateur Players A quick chat with Soham Thacker, Founder, Gamerji who decided to give those ‘gamers’ a chance who does not exactly fit into the mold of esports with Gamerji Community Challenge!
By Donna Amo
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mong the various esports tournaments hosted in the country, most of them largely focus on professional teams and players. Gamerji wanted to change this status quo and give the little guys a chance. Gamers that did not exactly fit the mold of esports athelets but were gamers. The platform finally achieved its dream with its first Gamerji Community Challenge back in July 2019. Now with Gamerji Community Challenge 2.0 already wrapped with a resounding success, there’s no doubt that Gamerji will continue to grow in leaps and bounds. To get an inside look into Soham Thacker, Founder of Gamerji the growth of Gamerji and its journey, we approached Soham bedrooms or outside college campuses, did not have the Thacker, Founder of Gamerji, to share his experience right platform to compete in or even make a mark. as its founding father. Thacker has always been an With that thought, we started a virtual tournament avid gamer and found himself drawn to the gaming platform in July 2019. Since then, Gamerji has grown industry when he made a cricket action game which from a few thousand users to more than 1.5 million eventually turned into Gamerji. active gamers today. Tell us more about the inception of Gamerji and how it has grown as a company? We realised that most of the esports tournaments were only catering to the pro-gamers. Hence most of the audience who play from the comfort of their
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How did you come up with the idea for an esports tournament like GCC? We realised that there were not a lot of multi-game tournaments that were hosted for the community. Gamerji Community Challenge (GCC) was created
