Ruthless Pro Series: Clash of Giants Season 3 is an upcoming PUBG Mobile tournament set to commence today, on 4th of January. The tournament is organized by Ruthless Esports and is sponsored by famous social media video content platform TikTok. The tournament will provide some intense actions as there will be a clash between 5 regions. The regions that will compete for the throne and the prize money of $20,000 USD are South Asia, Southeast Asia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and China. The tournament began with the Prelims round back in December for SEA and South Asia regions. The top 5 teams from both regions that advanced will now compete with other teams. 

About The Tournament

From all the five regions a total of 36 teams will compete against each other. The team breakdown is as follows - 

• 22 teams from the PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC) 2023 got a direct invite
• 4 teams were specially invited 
• 5 teams from the SA Prelims 
• 5 teams from the SEA Prelims

These teams will compete in the tournament across 4 different stages namely - 

• Survival Stage
• Last Chance 
• Playoffs 
• Grand Finals 

Teams for Survival Stage - 

• Nova Esports
• ThunderTalk Gaming
• KONE Esports 
• TeamPai
• HORAA Esports
• Talon
• Tianba
• Six Two Eight
• Bigetron Red Villians
• Alter Ego Ares
• Morph GPX
• Vampire Esports
• FaZe Clan
• Xerxia Esports
• D’Xavier
• Genesis Esports
• SEM9
• HAIL Esports
• Stalwart Esports
• Agonxi8 Esports 
• Seventh Element 
• IHC Esports 
• Nigma Galaxy 
• DUKSAN Esports 
• Nongshim RedForce 
• DPlus 
• 141 Official
• Gremlin Storm
• Undergang Esports
• Tribe Aeromacy
• Astra Esports
• Zz
• Rex Regum Qeon
• GLU Squad 
• Kagendra 
• VOIN Esports

All the teams will be divided equally into two groups of 18 each in the Survival stage. The top 10 will advance to Playoffs while the remaining teams will then compete in the last chance. 

The last chance will have two matchdays with a total of 6 matches daily. Resulting in a total of 12 matches and only the top 6 teams will then make it to the playoffs. 

Playoffs stage 

The playoff stage will comprise a total of 27 teams mainly the Survival stage qualified teams and the teams from the Last Chance stage. One more team will join them as a special invitee and that will be the season 2 champion 4Merical Vibes. These teams will then be divided into 3 groups of nine teams each. 

A total of 36 matches will be played across this stage with 6 matchdays and six matches per day. Four matches will be played per day from each group. After this round, only the top 18 teams will qualify for the Grand Finals. 

Grand Final

The Grand Final will have 4 match days and 6 matches will be played per day. Resulting in a total of 24 matches.