FISSURE has announced that FISSURE Playground 3 (previously known as FISSURE Playground 5 before the cancellation of several events) has moved to Suzhou, China, a city of 12 million that lies 90 kilometers west of Shanghai and is a part of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis.
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The 16-team, $1,250,000 event, which had previously been announced to take place in Shenzhen, will instead be played at Suzhou’s SND Cultural and Sports Centre from September 8-13.
FISSURE also announced that it will be the first event of a long-term strategic partnership with GGMEDIA, a live media production company based in Shanghai that recently ran the BLAST Open Porto 2026 Asian qualifiers.
Future plans for the partnered companies are “to host Tier 1 tournaments in China on an annual basis, contributing to the growth of the local esports ecosystem and strengthening its connection with the global competitive scene,” as stated by FISSURE.
