China News Service, January 9th. As the world's leading e-sports project, League of Legends has officially entered its 11th professional season.
On the evening of the 8th, the League of Legends tournament officially announced that Shenzhen, China, has become the host city for the 2021 global finals.
The Global Finals is the annual finale of the League of Legends project. In 2021, the event will resume in a multi-city format, and other host cities will be announced later this year.
Image source: League of Legends tournament official micro
The official announcement also stated that, as the center of China's technology and innovation, Shenzhen naturally has the conditions to host the world championship finals.
The global finals of the 2020 season will be held in Shanghai. In 2021, the annual finale of the League of Legends e-sports event-the global finals will resume the multi-city format. "We also expect that it will become the history of League of Legends e-sports. The largest event."
John, the head of Riot Games’ global e-sports, said: “The past year was full of unexpected challenges and brought many exciting games. At the same time, we have left many major milestones in this sport. It will be even more exciting. Going back to China, back to our largest league and the location of millions of fans who have supported us for a long time, and holding the world's highest-level e-sports event in the most innovative city in China is our most correct choice. ."
From January, more than one hundred teams from 11 regional leagues will begin their journey to the 2021 Global Finals.
League of Legends e-sports events and Riot China will also announce other host cities later this year.
The 2020 League of Legends Global Finals will be held in Shanghai throughout the whole process. During the five weeks in Shanghai, a total of 114 games will be played.
The 2020 Global Finals is also the world final with the best ratings so far.
The average number of viewers per minute for the championship and runner-up finals held between DWG and SN reached 23.04 million, while the peak number of viewers reached 45.95 million.
The watch time (live broadcast and playback within 24 hours) during the event exceeded 1 billion.
As the world's leading sports event, League of Legends e-sports has attracted the attention of millions of fans around the world since 2010. There are 800 professional players from more than 100 professional League of Legends e-sports teams all over the world fighting in 11 leagues. Each division league consists of about 10 teams. The league will host two seasons of competitions each year to compete for regional rankings and global finals points. Regional rankings and global finals points are used to determine the qualifications for two major international events: the mid-season championship and the global finals. Before the end of the season, fans voted for the most popular players in each league and played friendly matches during the All-Star weekend. (Finish)