Our journey
Years of building Telugu esports
TEC's historical record — every tournament, scrim programme, LAN, partnership and team backed since 2022. Latest chapter first.
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- TEC Practice Scrimsstanding BGMI scrim programme with M7 Esports — August wave archived.YouTube
- Trident Ignite 20269 Telugu teams through Round 1 — coverage running.Instagram
- Andhra Yuva Sankalpyouth esports programme in preparation.Learn more
How TEC evolvedCommunity → Competition → Representation → LAN → Partnerships → Scrims → Institutions
2026
A New Phase
Scrims become standing infrastructure, the Play-X partnership takes LANs to college campuses, and TEC tracks Telugu teams across four national circuits.
9 milestones on record
Trident Ignite 2026 — Telugu teams
33 Telugu teams qualified for Trident Ignite's Road to Masters; TEC published power rankings and tracked 9 teams through Round 1 — coverage that is still running.
TEC Practice Scrims
A standing scrim programme hosted by TEC and managed by M7 Esports: four-day waves in July and August with 16+ community teams each, published standings, and a dedicated caster. Scrims moved from one-off prep to permanent competitive infrastructure.
Scrims lineage: BGIS Crash Scrims S1 (Jan 2026) → TEC Practice Scrims (Jul 2026 –) → standing programme
IRS 2026 — Telugu teams
Tracked 16 Telugu teams into India Rising Series Round 2, 10 into the quarterfinals and 4 into the semifinals.
Ascension Cup — MVGR Aadhrita
The second Play-X × TEC campus event: a 12-team Free Fire cup at MVGR's Aadhrita fest, with the deciding day broadcast live on 13 March.
BGIS 2026 — Telugu Pride
Round-by-round promotion of Telugu teams from BGIS Round 1 to the quarterfinals, and Riot Nations' Wildcards run carrying the community's hopes.
Sakura Warriors Cup — KL University
An offline LAN at KL University's SAC Hall, organized by Play-X in collaboration with TEC — the first campus LAN of the partnership, and TEC's first event footprint in coastal Andhra outside Hyderabad.
RM Supreme League — Season 4
TEC broadcast Supreme League S4 from the Telugu qualifiers through the 22 March grand final, where 12 teams including iQOO Total Gaming and S8UL Elite competed — the finals stream passed 32K views.
BGIS Crash Scrims — Season 1
A free, named scrim series built for BGIS Round-1 qualified teams — two 16-team groups drilling in competitive lobbies days before Round 1 began. TEC's first scrim programme.
BGIS Crash League — Season 4
The biggest Crash League yet: 64 BGIS Round-1 probable teams, a ₹25,000 prize pool, 36 matches a day across four parallel streams, and a hired caster and production bench — finals decided 24 January.
2025
Expansion
More games, more partners, the first LANs — and ESPORTEX, TEC's biggest event to date.
16 milestones on record
Nov – Dec 2025Platform rebuild & public data — Built and launched
City Esports Manager programme
TEC opened City Esports Manager roles across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana — the start of a city-by-city community structure that the website's city pages now map.
Festival Cup FFMAX
DreamHack 2025
Sponsored 3 Telugu BGMI teams.
Supreme League — Season 3
TEC carried RM Esports' Supreme League S3 to its 4 September grand final — a 12-team field including Total Gaming and Team Elite, with the finals broadcast passing 21K views.
ESPORTEX 2025
TEC's biggest event: a Krafton-verified BGMI tournament and Garena-verified Free Fire MAX tournament culminating in a LAN at HITEX Exhibition Center inside SportExpo, Hyderabad. 128 BGMI squads entered qualifiers; the Free Fire MAX LAN broadcast passed 87K views.
The Telugu Championship
A Free Fire MAX LAN finale at Cafe Game Theory — presented by Play-X with TEC as supporting partner. The first Play-X × TEC collaboration, and the start of the campus-LAN pipeline that followed.
Telugu Esports Valorant Cup
TEC's first tournament outside mobile esports: a full Valorant bracket broadcast from quarterfinals to the final.
Clash of Champions — Season 2
Nexus Cup — Season 2
Nexus Cup — Season 1
Khelo India Youth Games, Bihar
TEC travelled to Khelo India Youth Games 2025 — the first time esports featured in the national multi-sport event — representing the Telugu scene, with support messages from Mortal, GodL Destro and the BGIS 2025 winner.
Clash of Champions — Season 1
BGIS 2025 — Telugu Pride
Round-by-round coverage of every Telugu team in BGIS 2025, from Round 1 through the semifinalists.
BGIS Crash League — Season 3
The third Crash League put 60 teams through five days of qualifiers into a two-day grand final — the format's biggest field yet.
Festival Cup — Season 1
2024
Building the Network
TEC's first self-run tournaments, the website, and the first season of backing Telugu teams through national competition.
9 milestones on record
Unity Cup — Season 1
A collaborative year-end tournament with a ₹25,000 prize pool, closing 2024 with an 18-team grand final.
DreamHack 2024
Sponsored 3 top Telugu BGMI teams, selected on their TRIDENT T1 performance.
BMPS 2024 — Telugu teams
TEC tracked and promoted Telugu squads — Hyderabad Hydras, E4ExCFS, Team Limra, Silly Gaming — through every round of the Battlegrounds Mobile Pro Series, the first season of what became a signature: following Telugu teams through national competition.
BGIS 2024 Grand Finals, Hyderabad
When BGIS 2024 came to Hyderabad, TEC hosted Telugu players at the finals, distributed 200 entry tickets, and represented the Telugu-speaking states to Krafton.
TEC Grand Battle — Season 1
TEC's first fully self-produced tournament broadcast: 60 teams cut to a 16-team final over two days for a ₹15,000 prize pool, streamed live on the new channel.
Jun 202480+ jerseys for 20 teams — Sponsorcommunity record
Jun 2024teluguesportscommunity.in launched — Built and launched
BGIS Crash League — Season 2
Jan 2024Discord server launched — Community infrastructure
2023
Competitive Foundations
The first BGIS Crash League and the start of TEC's own broadcast archive.
3 milestones on record
Nov 2023DreamHack 2023 — Sponsorcommunity record
Sep 2023YouTube channel launched — Community infrastructure
BGIS Crash League — Season 1
TEC's first Crash League: a bracket built to align new Telugu teams during BGIS 2023 and carry them through every round. It became the community's flagship annual format.
2022
Foundation
TEC's first chapter predates its digital archives — these entries carry forward from the community's own record.
2 milestones on record
DreamHack 2022
Sponsored 10 Telugu players to attend DreamHack India — TEC's first support of players at a national event.
BGMI ban period support
Through the ten months BGMI was banned in India, TEC kept Telugu players and organizations active and connected while the competitive scene had no game to play.