MUNICH, GERMANY – October 14th, 2022 – SNK Corporation is proud to announce the official THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV (KOF XV) online tournament, SNK REGIONAL BOUTS.
The SNK REGIONAL BOUTS is an official online tournament series for KOF XV, organized by SNK Corporation. An online tournament will be held in seven regions (North America, South America, Brazil, Europe, Middle East, East Asia, and Southeast Asia) to determine regional champions.
Please check the official tournament website for details such as dates and registration for each region: http://www.snk-corp.co.jp/official/kof-xv/srb/
SNK REGIONAL BOUTS Tournament dates are as follows:
| Tournament Dates | Tournament Regions | Platforms |
| Saturday, November 5, 2022 | Southeast Asia | Steam |
| Saturday, November 12, 2022 | Brazil | Steam |
| Saturday, November 19, 2022 | Middle East | Steam |
| Saturday, November 26, 2022 | Latin America | Steam |
| Saturday, December 3, 2022 | North America | PlayStation 4/PlayStation 5 |
| Saturday, December 10, 2022 | Europe | Steam |
| Saturday, December 17, 2022 Sunday, December 18, 2022 |
East Asia | PlayStation 4/PlayStation 5 |
PRIZES
The amount of prize money and the number of pay-outs will vary depending on the number of participants in each tournament. Crowdfunding will also be available through the
e-sports crowdfunding website Matcherino.
| Tournament Participants | Individual Tournament Prize Money | Individual Tournament Payout |
| Under 100 | $ 4,000.00+ crowdfunding | Top 8 |
| Between 100 and 199 | $ 6,000.00+ crowdfunding | Top 12 |
| Over 200 | $ 8,000.00+ crowdfunding | Top 16 |
*The number of participants is not determined by the number of registrations, but of those who show up to the tournament.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Title: THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV
Platform: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Windows 10, Steam, Epic Store
Genre: Versus Fighting
Developer: SNK Corporation
Players: 1-2 local / 2-8 Network
Co-Publisher: PLAION
Release Date: February 17th, 2022
Website: https://www.snk-corp.co.jp/us/games/kof-xv
PLAION runs a multi-label strategy, with fully owned publishing units, such as Deep Silver, Prime Matter, Milestone, Vertigo Games and Ravenscourt, publishing games for consoles, PC and VR platforms across all physical and digital channels.
Additionally - as a global publishing partner - PLAION has formed long-term multinational publishing collaborations with numerous game publishers including Activision Blizzard, Bethesda, Capcom, Focus Multimedia, Giants Software, Koei Tecmo, Paradox, Sega, SNK, Square Enix, Techland, THQ Nordic, Tripwire, Warner Bros and many others.
With its parent company in Höfen, Austria - and the HQ in Munich, Germany - PLAION owns local publishing companies in Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the United States as well as Japan and Hong Kong.
PLAION owns ten game development studios: Deep Silver Volition (Champaign, IL, USA), Deep Silver Dambuster Studios (Nottingham, UK), Fishlabs (Hamburg, DE), Warhorse Studios (Prague, CZ), Milestone (Milan, IT), Voxler (Paris, FR) , DigixArt (Montpellier, FR), Flying Wild Hog (Warsaw, Kraków, Rzeszów, PL), Free Radical Design (Nottingham, UK) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, NL). Additionally, PLAION collaborates with numerous independent development studios around the world.
Part of PLAION is also PLAION PICTURES, a leading independent film distributor in Europe with a library of more than 1.400 titles. Further business operations include Sola Media, a sales agency and production company for family entertainment, Spotfilm Networx, a multi-channel streaming network, and a sub-label dedicated to Japanese animation.
PLAION also owns the leading video game merchandise company DPI Merchandising (Denver, Roseburg, USA and Munich, DE) and a Quality Assurance Facility in Olomouc, CZ.
PLAION is an Embracer Group company.