Parth Charan

<hr>&nbsp;Gaming, in all its varied&nbsp;forms, has always been&nbsp;perceived as a purely&nbsp;recreational activity —&nbsp;something about its ability&nbsp;to devour enormous units&nbsp;of time and electricity,&nbsp;without any evidence of&nbsp;physical benefit, has always&nbsp;kept it outside the realm of&nbsp;productivity. In the last two&nbsp;decades, however, gaming&nbsp;has evolved into a billion&nbsp;dollar multimedia juggernaut,&nbsp;with an ever-increasing base&nbsp;of fans whose median age,&nbsp;globally, hovers around&nbsp;the early 30s. Today, Paul&nbsp;Newman’s maxim from The&nbsp;Color of Money stands all too&nbsp;true — if you’re the best at&nbsp;something, anything, then it&nbsp;can be arranged.&nbsp;That’s what Yash Pariani&nbsp;and Krish Galani are here to&nbsp;do, with the <a href="http://www.iglnetwork.com/">Indian Gaming&nbsp;League</a> — not just arrange&nbsp;for riches, but add a layer of&nbsp;legitimacy to India’s fledgling&nbsp;online gaming scene. They’ve&nbsp;done this by creating India’s&nbsp;first professional online and&nbsp;offline gaming platform,&nbsp;dubbed the Indian Gaming&nbsp;League — the E-sports&nbsp;portal allows gamers to&nbsp;form leagues, purchase&nbsp;credits and partake in online&nbsp;tournaments, which allow&nbsp;them to win cash prizes. IGL&nbsp;hosts daily events, letting&nbsp;gamers engage in several&nbsp;multiplayer gaming activities&nbsp;across all gaming platforms&nbsp;— XBox, PC and PlayStation.&nbsp;Given their age, both Yash&nbsp;(23) and Krish (20) have&nbsp;seen gaming technology take&nbsp;huge leaps forward in terms&nbsp;of quality and sophistication,&nbsp;over the last decade and a&nbsp;half. They created the Indian&nbsp;Gaming League in an effort&nbsp;to tap into the eSports&nbsp;phenomenon that’s swept the&nbsp;developed world, particularly&nbsp;the United States, where&nbsp;Krish cut his teeth in the&nbsp;eSports business by owning&nbsp;and managing a team which&nbsp;participated in multiple&nbsp;gaming tournaments across&nbsp;the country. He also holds the&nbsp;distinction of starting the first&nbsp;all-women professional Call&nbsp;of Duty league.&nbsp;“A lot of parents don’t&nbsp;see the potential in gaming,&nbsp;and don’t approve of their&nbsp;children pursuing gaming&nbsp;professionally” says Yash,&nbsp;who previously dabbled in&nbsp;event management before&nbsp;collaborating with Krish to&nbsp;create IGL. So just how big&nbsp;a fortune can one stand to&nbsp;make? “The most profitable&nbsp;team at the moment would&nbsp;be Team Fanatic, who have&nbsp;an estimated value of 42&nbsp;million dollars.” According&nbsp;to their website, winning&nbsp;a gaming tournament at&nbsp;the moment can earn you&nbsp;up to Rs 3500 straight off&nbsp;the mark. Participants also&nbsp;earn ‘pro points’ or XP for&nbsp;participation. How does this&nbsp;work? It essentially separates&nbsp;the more experienced players&nbsp;from the plebes. The teams&nbsp;which possess the maximum&nbsp;XP get to participate in&nbsp;qualifier rounds, which&nbsp;then determine the top 8&nbsp;teams in the country. Yash&nbsp;and Krish have also tied up&nbsp;with top gaming publishers&nbsp;like Activision, which will&nbsp;allow the selected teams to&nbsp;participate in international&nbsp;tournaments, whose top&nbsp;prizes range up to 20 million&nbsp;dollars.&nbsp;Yash and Krish’s combined&nbsp;experience with the world of&nbsp;gaming has allowed them to&nbsp;offer a wide range of in-game&nbsp;services. Sure, you could just&nbsp;set up a multiplayer match&nbsp;with your friends, but <a href="http://www.iglnetwork.com/">IGL&nbsp;</a>offers to monitor and play&nbsp;referee during large scale&nbsp;multiplayer tournaments, to&nbsp;ensure that no foul play is&nbsp;involved. “We have an online&nbsp;admin team that is there&nbsp;to monitor and assess the&nbsp;situation as well as to ensure&nbsp;continuation and equality&nbsp;in matches”, Yash confirms,&nbsp;showing yet another benefit&nbsp;of going pro. With the arrival&nbsp;of virtual reality headsets,&nbsp;the world of gaming is only&nbsp;going to expand. If you want&nbsp;to be a part of it, head over&nbsp;to the Indian Gaming League&nbsp;website and get started.

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Yash Pariani And Krish Galani have set up India’s first professional online and offline gaming league. And it is turning out to be quite the success.

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Meet The Men Who Set Up India’s First Professional Online And Offline Gaming League