- The next Clash Royale League season’s prize pool may exceed the previous $1M USD mark.
- The league will abandon the controversial, but mobile-friendly portrait orientation for broadcasts.
- Supercell previously revealed plans to consolidate Western regions and announced the qualification process for the upcoming season.
Supercell has gradually released details in recent weeks about the upcoming second season of the Clash Royale League (CRL), and this week the publisher revealed two key changes coming when the strategic mobile battler resumes competition.
According to a Q&A-style blog post, the next CRL season will have a prize pool of “at least” $1M, with the full amount still to be determined. The first season had a fixed $1M pool for the regular season and regional championships, with no prize money awarded for the World Finals in Tokyo. Supercell’s post doesn’t specify whether a potentially increased amount could come from the sale of in-game items, for example, or via further partnerships with sponsors.
The other key detail confirmed by the Q&A is that the CRL will officially ditch portrait-oriented broadcasts next season. The North American and European broadcasts previously took that approach to better reflect the play experience and make it more ideal for mobile viewing, but it was a controversial shift away from traditional streaming norms that many fans didn’t like.
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Supercell streamed the World Finals in landscape orientation in all regions, and at the event, the company’s head of esports Tim Ebner told The Esports Observer that his team would reevaluate portrait orientation in the offseason. Now we know that the CRL will indeed broadcast in landscape orientation across the board.
Last week, Supercell announced the in-game qualification process for the Clash Royale League, with players needing to notch 20 wins during a fixed period of time to reach the next stage. In February, the publisher revealed that the previous North American, European, and Latin American regions would be merged into a single new Western region. That move is likely to result in fewer overall teams for the second season.
