Poison Ivy were crowned the champions of the inaugural Call of Duty: Mobile – Garena Battle Royale Cup in front of their home crowd in Manila, Philippines. This follows their dominant Playoffs run, with the team looking forward to truly global competitions.
CODM – GBRC and the future of CODM esports
The Call of Duty: Mobile – Garena Battle Royale Cup (CODM – GBRC) is the first major LAN event dedicated to the Battle Royale aspect of CODM. It began with the Qualifier Stage on Sept. 26 and brought the top 10 teams to the offline Grand Finals last Nov. 7-8.
Teams from the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and Indonesia made it to the Grand Finals.
For 2027, Garena announced the Rookie Circuit for both Battle Royale and Multiplayer competitors. This is a new, open circuit which runs four times a year and allows players the chance to participate in the highest form of competition: The global World Championship for Multiplayer, and the regional Garena Battle Royale Cup for BR.
Poison Ivy are your first CODM-GBRC champions!
The grand finals were played across two days and implemented the new Endgame Protocol. In it, the winning point threshold is set to the points of the leading team after Day 1, plus 10.
Since Poison Ivy ended Map 6, Day 1 at 106 points, the winning threshold was set at 116 points.
Trailing behind them were GNR Esports at 99 points and ADMT Pyrite with 82.
As Day 2 rolled by, Poison Ivy were the first to reach the threshold, and they did so on Map 7 of the tournament. They secured the map and tournament win on Map 8 as they triumphed over GNR Esports when they were left as the last two squads in the final circle.
Poison Ivy lifted the trophy with 132 points and two map wins. SecreGIZY was awarded the Finals MVP after securing the most eliminations in the title-deciding map. He was awarded with 30,000 CP.
He attributed their consistent dominance to discipline. “We practice almost every day, with scrims and tournaments, and we don’t let anything slide. We stay locked in for almost every game.”
Meanwhile, VrusGIZY is eager for more competitions and an international championship. “I think the next step for us is to compete in tournaments against teams from around the world. We’re ready to give it our all and win an international championship.”
The competitive CODM Battle Royale will resume with the Rookie Circuit in 2027.
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