A mobile esports title Critical Ops will be played in June 23rd to the 24th, 2018 at the Amazon Mobile Masters live tournament in Seattle, United States. The developers of Critical Ops, a Finnish game company Critical Force will use this opportunity to unveil their new Spectator Client for the game in the event.

Critical Ops is now getting a Spectator Client for tournament use. The first time this client will be seen in action will be in Amazon Mobile Masters.

“Spectator Client provides viewers a complete overview of the match. It also helps shoutcasters commentate and create stories around the games. Viewers will have real-time information about the weapon composition and economy of both teams as well as player positioning on the map,” says Critical Force Community and eSports Manager Kasperi Kivistö.

The participating Critical Ops teams have now been announced. A total of six teams will compete for the main prize. Teams attending the Critical Ops tournament at Amazon Mobile Masters event are CSPG, Dynasty, Gankstars, Hammers Esports, Nova Esports and SetToDestroyX. CSPG is representing the Asian region in the tournament. Dynasty, Nova Esports and SetToDestroyX will be representing Europe – Nova Esports being the regional champion from Premier League Winter Season. Gankstars and Hammers Esports are the North American teams in the tournament. Gankstars has dominated the North American region for a long time and it will be interesting to see if other teams can challenge them in a live environment.

The teams will be divided into two groups in the tournament. They will battle in a Best of One Group Phase on Saturday 23rd of June 2018. The top two teams from each group will be seeded into single elimination semi-finals played in Best of Three format on Sunday, June 24th, 2018.

Mobile Masters is a popular mobile gaming tournament for amateur and professional esports players. The 2018 event will take place in Seattle from June 23rd to 24th, 2018 and will be broadcast from Amazon’s new state-of-the-art streaming studio. This year’s Mobile Masters will include the popular core mobile games, Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, Survival Arena, World of Tanks Blitz, and Critical Ops. The best players in these games will compete over the course of two days for a share of the $100,000 prize pool.

Critical Force is a game developer from Finland focusing on competitive multiplayer games for mobile. The company’s first game is a mobile FPS title Critical Ops. It has been downloaded over 38 million times and over one million people play this pioneering mobile esports game every day. The company received a $4.5 million seed investment from Korean game publisher conglomerate NHN Entertainment in 2016. Critical Force has offices in Finland and South-Korea. Critical Force was also awarded the best Finnish game developer of 2016.

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Finnish game studio Critical Force has just reached two amazing milestones with their mobile esports game Critical Ops. Mobile game industry legend and Esports prodigy Kevin Chou has joined the company as a board member and the game has soared past 30 Million downloads.

League’s Seoul metropolitan and put together a championship caliber team building around the former Lunatic Hai roster. KSV’s Heroes of the Storm team recently won the World Championship along with the the $500K first place prize at BlizzCon 2017. KSV’s newly formed PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) team is currently ranked number one in the Korean / Japan servers.

Kevin Chou’s earlier venture, the mobile game company Kabam was built from a tiny operation above a dim sum restaurant to a massive 1 billion dollar exit in 2017. Kevin was named as one of the “top 40 under 40” industry players by Fortune magazine in 2014.

Kevin Chou

“I’m passionate about esports, and Critical Force represents the leader in creating the first possible mobile FPS esports” said Kevin Chou. “I expect to work with a global team of people passionate about making great games and taking the right long term steps to bring competitive FPS experiences to gamers worldwide”.

“We are very pleased to have Kevin to join our board, and we look forward to his contributions” said Veli-Pekka Piirainen, CEO and Founder at Critical Force. “Kevin is a real veteran and a leader in the game industry worldwide. He led Kabam from founding to a billion dollar company and his experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and now as a founder and CEO of KSV Esports will be invaluable to Critical Force.”

Critical Force’s hallmark mobile esports title Critical Ops has now been downloaded for over 30 Million times and the game hasn’t even been officially released yet. This is a major milestone for the Finnish game company. Daily download numbers and other metrics will likely grow even more in the coming months due to a big upcoming update.

“Critical Force’s mobile esports scene has grown exponentially this year. There’s been a new Critical Ops tournament every week and even bigger events are in the plans. Getting the legendary Kevin Chou to join our board was just the first step. We will be taking even more major steps soon to grow the scene to the next level,” says CEO of Critical Force Veli-Pekka Piirainen.

Critical Force Team

Critical Force got started five years ago when CEO Veli-Pekka Piirainen and a small team of developers produced their first prototype of a multiplayer first person shooter for the mobile platform. Through incremental stages Critical Ops was eventually developed from this prototype. Critical Ops proved to be exceptionally suitable for mobile esports. From that day on Critical Force have engaged in pioneering work in the development of mobile esports.

The last couple of years have been extremely significant for Critical Force. The company moved to their current office in the center of Kajaani in the summer of 2016 and since then they have renovated and expanded several times due to the growth of the company. Critical Force received a $4.5 million seed investment from Korean game publisher conglomerate NHN Entertainment in the fall 2016. This is one of the biggest ever seed investments for a Finnish gaming company.

In the span of a little over a year Critical Force has grown exponentially from a 15 person core team to a family of over 60 games industry professionals. There are now employees of 13 different nationalities on the team. In addition to having employees in Kajaani, Finland there are now employees both in Seoul, South Korea as well as in Los Angeles in the United States.

Critical Force was also awarded best Finnish game developer of 2016.

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THE CRITICAL OPS EVENT IN LAS VEGAS HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED.

CRITICAL FORCE AND STG WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS OUR CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF THE LAS VEGAS SHOOTING.

Finnish mobile game developer Critical Force, developers of Critical Ops, and one of the world’s most known online retailers Amazon have started a collaboration.

Critical Ops is a mobile eSports game that has now been downloaded for over 26 million times and it has over 860.000 daily gamers. The game has only been soft launched for Android and iOS mobile devices.

“It is absolutely fantastic that a major player like Amazon wanted to collaborate with us,” said the CEO of Critical Force Veli-Pekka Piirainen. “Amazon is investing a lot of effort to mobile eSports and also to their Twitch video streaming service’s mobile offering. We believe that our collaboration will expand our player base even more.”

The Critical Ops M2LV tournament will be held on October 14th, 2017 at the Neonopolis’ Millennial eSports Arena, the first eSports facility in Las Vegas. The venue is one of the only arenas in the United States dedicated exclusively to eSports. Two teams of five players will compete at the Critical Ops M2LV tournament to see who is the most skilled in competitive combat. The teams will compete for a prize pool total of $10,000. The daily schedule of tournaments and full list of participants will be revealed soon HERE.

“GankStars are honored to be one of the first teams to go to a Critical Ops LAN event! We are ready to use this platform to put on a show for all of the viewers and our fans. Critical Force’s constant work behind the scenes have made this possible and we are forever grateful to them for bringing us along for the ride. Let’s show the world what this game is capable of,” said Judgement from the team GankStars.

“We are excited to attend the event. We have never had an experience like this. We are grateful for this opportunity,” said Retroz from the team Imperial.

M2LV will mix different games and bring together professional players from all over the world to compete in some of the most popular mobile games, for a share of an $80,000 USD prize pool. Fans can attend the event free of charge or watch the competition live on Amazon Appstore’s Twitch channel HERE, which will be simultaneously re-broadcast on player and influencer Twitch channels.

Critical Force is a mobile eSports game developer based in Kajaani, Finland. The company has almost 60 employees and growing rapidly with a 4,5 million dollar investment from NHN Entertainment. Critical Force is poised to become the number one developer of competitive games on mobile devices. The first game title Critical Ops is already a huge hit with 26 million downloads.

Critical Ops can be downloaded from the Amazon Appstore and it is also one of the featured mobile eSports games in the Amazon’s Mobile Masters Las Vegas (M2LV) event on October 14-15th, 2017.

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