Rebeca Pérez, Councilor for Youth and Cooperation, presented this morning the fifth edition of Tekken World to be held this weekend at the youth center of La Nave de Puente Tocinos.
The main objective of this event is to promote electronic sports (e-Sport) at regional and national level, since its main attraction is its competitions.
But in addition to competing, there will also be entertainment for visitors, with various videos, presentations, experts comment on the most relevant live matches and there will be freeplay stalls so that all spectators can participate.
There will also be a streaming broadcast so that anyone can see the best matches from home and how the competition progresses.
The main competition at the professional level will count with an exit prize of 1,500 euros given by the company creator of the game, Bandai Namco Entertaiment.
This will allow fans to enjoy an e-Sport show at the highest level, ensuring a large audience attendance estimated at around 400 people over the weekend.
"Cyber-promoters arouse a high interest among our youth. It should be noted that 17% of the population consume content related to digital competitions, and of these, 60% are between 18 and 34 years old, so our goal is to go from the hand of the trends that mark the leisure of the Murcia youth and offer them alternatives, "stressed Rebeca Perez.
Bai Largo Sales, known as Bai, current Spanish champion of Tekken 7, Cristian de Arcos Lopez, known as TKD, current runner-up of Spain of Tekken Tag 2, and Justo Manuel Lopez Rodríguez will attend this event, , known as Shinichi, who is currently the top 5 in Tekken 7, European champion of Street Fighter 2 and Spain's 2nd Street Fighter V.
Also present Manuel Canales Calvo, known as Lin, who is one of the young promises of the Spanish community of Tekken and which is located in the top 8 of the most important tournaments.
Rebeca Pérez stated that "this is an event of reference in the national scene and is not only focused on professional players, but we hope to attract many young people from the city of Murcia and its surroundings. It is an opportunity to see a top competition level, where there will also be several tournaments with prem
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia