India Korea Invitational 2023 ended with Dplus KIA on top

South Korea's Dplus KIA won the BGMI half of KRAFTON's first India Korea Invitational, played from October 26 to 28, 2023 at Hall 14 of Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. The sixteen team field, eight from India and eight from Korea, played fifteen matches, and Dplus KIA won five chicken dinners on the way to two hundred seventeen points. The title was worth forty lakh rupees from a one crore BGMI pool.

Gods Reign were India's best, taking second on one hundred seventy one points and twenty lakh, forty six behind the champions. Emtek StormX made it a Korean one three with one hundred fifty three points and ten lakh. Nolbu of Dplus KIA was named MVP with a three lakh award, and his teammate Favian took the Best IGL award. BGIS champions Gladiators Esports managed only seventh on one hundred points, while Team X Spark finished last on forty five.

Pragati Maidan staged a three-game festival that week, with Road To Valor Empires and Real Cricket running alongside the BGMI bracket, and the venue drew more than twelve thousand spectators across three days. The Korean ambassador to India, the head of Invest India, footballer Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal were among the guests, and the broadcast ran in eleven languages including Korean, Hindi and Tamil.

Fifteen matches across three days; Dplus KIA's two hundred seventeen points beat Gods Reign's one hundred seventy one by forty six.

India Korea Invitational 2023 scoring split shows how Dplus KIA built its 217 points. Dplus KIA paired 125 placement points with 92 finishes and five chicken dinners, while Gods Reign paired 98 placement points with 73 finishes for 171. Blind eSports finished fourth on 131 points, Revenant Esports fifth on 116, and Eagle Owls sixth on 107, while Gladiators Esports and NS RedForce tied on 100 points in seventh and eighth.