Team XO's 444 points won the Skyesports Grand Slam

The first big BGMI event of 2022 was the Skyesports Grand Slam, run from 9 to 16 February, and Team XO won it. Sixteen teams played 42 matches in the Grand Finals, and Team XO were top of the table on every day, finishing on 444 points with 290 placement points, 154 finishes and five chicken dinners. The title paid eight lakh rupees from a fifteen lakh pool. The roster was IMMORTAL, Punkk, Fierce, SENSEI and the recently signed Snax.

Team SouL finished second on 416 points with 228 placement points, 188 finishes and six chicken dinners, worth three lakh rupees, after a run that climbed from thirteenth on day two into the top three. Skylightz Gaming, the BGIS champions, recovered from a poor start to take third on 387 for one and a half lakh. Behind them came Celsius Esports on 362, TSM on 359, 8Bit on 345, GodLike Esports on 342, Enigma Gaming on 328, Entity Gaming on 295, Team Forever on 290, Orangutan on 288, Chemin Esports on 274, Team Mayavi on 248, 7Sea Esports on 224 and Velocity Gaming on 165. Team Nugget were disqualified and scored no points.

The event set a viewership record for its broadcast partner. The Grand Finals peaked at one hundred fifty nine thousand concurrent viewers on Loco, which Skyesports and Loco both described as a new benchmark for the platform. Jonathan of GodLike Esports took the tournament MVP award and its one lakh rupee prize, topping the kill leaderboard with 69 finishes. Team XO's win started the most successful stretch in the organisation's history, with the Upthrust India Rising title following a month later.

Sixteen teams played 42 matches; Team XO's 444 (290 placement, 154 finishes) beat Team SouL's 416.

Qualifiers for the 2022 Grand Slam began with 3000 teams split into 150 groups, and only 1500 teams survived the first single-match round. Later rounds cut the field to 600, then 240, then 60, before 12 qualifier teams joined 12 invited teams in the quarter-finals. AMD sponsored the event, with Loco as broadcast partner and Logitech also listed among the sponsors.