Cashplay Partner with Multiplay to Provide Mobile eSports Tournaments at Insomnia55

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Cashplay partner with Multiplay
Cashplay partner with Multiplay
SAN FRANCISCO - Aug. 27, 2015 - PRLog -- Cashplay, the global mobile eSports platform, is partnering with UK-based Multiplay to provide real money mobile tournaments for the expected 40,000 gaming fans attending this weekend’s 55th edition of the Insomnia Gaming Festival.

Insomnia55 takes place at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena from 28th – 30th of August and features appearances from some of the biggest names in the gaming industry, Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) LAN gaming halls and elite-level tournaments based around some of the world’s most popular games including League of Legends, Rocket League, Counter Strike and DOTA 2.

Cashplay is the official provider of mobile eSports tournaments for Insomnia55 and will be running multiple, large-scale, unlimited entry tournaments throughout the festival with £1,000 available in prizes each day.

Festival goers will be able to compete against each other on their own mobile devices playing popular mobile games on iOS and Android. Players can enter the tournaments from any location at the event once they have downloaded the requisite games to their mobile devices, and Cashplay is providing free cash for new users to get into the games without needing to make deposits on their own.

Cashplay has been running its own live mobile eSports Tournaments all over the world during the past year during various industry shows such as Casual Connect and GDC, with thousands of participants and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash prizes distributed already.

“Insomnia is a legendary gaming festival and by far the leading gathering for eSports lovers in the UK," said Cashplay CEO, Jarrod Epps. "We are excited to be partnering with Multiplay to add a new dimension to the proceedings by exposing gamers to the huge potential of mobile eSports as both a form of recreation and also a legitimate channel for winning money."

The partnership with Multiplay will allow Cashplay to continue featuring mobile eSports tournaments at live gaming events in the future. While no specific details are yet available, Cashplay CEO Jarrod Epps mentioned that the company plans to move onto the next level with a series of live eSports tournament taking place through the end of 2015, including an expected $100,000 cash prize giveaway during a yet-to-be named tournament in October.

About Cashplay

Cashplay is the world's first and only real money eSports tournament provider operating globally on Android, Apple's iOS platform and Windows Phone. Cashplay's real money tournament services are available in over 200 territories worldwide. To facilitate real money tournaments, Cashplay offers a free software development kit (SDK) for mobile game developers to incorporate within skill-based, mobile games for the purpose of increasing revenues to solve the game monetization problem.

The company was founded in 2012 and is comprised of veterans from the real money gaming, banking, mobile gaming, and the online entertainment industries. Cashplay is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic and also has an office in San Francisco, California.

For more information about Cashplay, please visit www.Cashplay.co.

Press contact – thomasnewman@cashplay.co

About Multiplay

Founded by Craig Fletcher in 1997, Multiplay are a leading service provider to the games industry, a consultant and promoter to almost all major publishers, manufacturers and e-tailers. They have been running gaming events for nearly two decades and have achieved mass exposure and recognition in the industry as the creators and producers of the UK’s biggest Games Festival – Insomnia. Multiplay have delivered a wide range of events to high profile customers in the UK and internationally, such as Warner Bros, ESET, IGN and Mojang.

Multiplay is also one of the world's largest hosts of online game servers, with over 23 locations across 5 continents and is also home to one of Europe's largest on-line gaming communities with over 7 million gamers playing on their servers every month For more information about Multiplay, please visit www.multiplay.com.

Press contact – josh.ling@multiplay.com

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