Highlights
- JioBLAST is the official operator of the Brawl Stars Challengers 2026 circuit across South Asia and Southeast Asia.
- The winner of each regional final advances to the Brawl Stars Challengers Final in Istanbul on September 5 and 6, 2026.
- The circuit sits inside a wider multi-year BLAST–Supercell partnership that carries a $2 million global prize pool for the 2026 Brawl Stars Championship.
JioBLAST has been named the official operator of the Brawl Stars Challengers 2026 circuit across South Asia and Southeast Asia, in partnership with Supercell. The joint venture, formed by Reliance's Jio, BLAST and RISE Worldwide, will run qualifiers, monthly finals and a cumulative leaderboard across both subregions.
Registration opened on April 27, 2026, and closes on May 17, 2026, according to JioBLAST. The first season's monthly qualifiers are scheduled for May 23–24, with monthly finals on May 30–31.
The South Asia circuit carries a $7,500 prize pool spread across three seasons and a regional final, Inside Sport India reported. The winner of the regional final earns the spot to represent the subregion at the Brawl Stars Challengers Final in Istanbul, Türkiye, on September 5 and 6, 2026, where 12 regional champions will compete for a single slot at the Brawl Stars Championship Last Chance Qualifier.
How the Brawl Stars Challengers 2026 Circuit Works in South and Southeast Asia
The format is built around open monthly qualifiers feeding into monthly finals, with standings tracked through a cumulative leaderboard across the season.
In a LinkedIn post, JioBLAST said the circuit was designed to provide "accessibility for emerging teams while maintaining competitive integrity at the highest level," and to build "a clear, merit-driven journey for the next generation of champions."
The Challengers program, which Supercell launched on March 26, 2026, runs across 12 regions including DACH, France, Spain, Italy, Türkiye, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, North America and South America West, alongside South Asia and Southeast Asia. Each region runs its own qualification path, with the top team from each advancing to Istanbul.
The wider BLAST–Supercell deal
The Challengers circuit sits within a multi-year partnership between BLAST and Supercell, announced on December 11, 2025, that gives BLAST operational and commercial control of the Brawl Stars competitive ecosystem. The deal covers more than 190 countries and territories across EMEA, North America, South America, APAC and the Chinese mainland.
The 2026 Brawl Stars Championship carries a $2 million total prize pool, BLAST said, with 32 broadcast days a year split across six online monthly seasons and two splits. ESL had operated the Brawl Stars circuit since 2020.
Three LAN events anchor the calendar. The first is the Brawl Cup at Berlin's Uber Eats Music Hall on May 15–17, 2026, with a $100,000 prize pool, according to Liquipedia. A Last Chance Qualifier LAN follows the summer split, and the Brawl Stars World Finals close out the year in the fourth quarter at a venue Supercell has yet to announce.
For South Asia and Southeast Asia, two markets that have driven much of the growth in mobile esports but have lacked a formal route to international BSC competition, the Challengers circuit is the first qualification path Supercell has built that runs from local online play to a September LAN final in Istanbul.
