This year denoted the 10th World Championship in League of Legends serious history – and it positively was an essential one. Despite the fact that our street to Worlds gave us special difficulties – rotating to a solitary city competition, the Vietnam Championship Series unfit to travel, and having no live crowd until the Finals – putting on the most ideal act under the most secure conditions was our definitive objective.
The occasion commenced with Play-Ins at the Shanghai Media Tech Center, presenting a blended reality stage that permitted us to travel basically through the components and bring the city of Shanghai inside. Play-Ins specifically pulled in essentially more viewership than in earlier years, almost certainly an aftereffect of the repressed interest for top-level esports rivalry after a season affected by the worldwide pandemic. Throughout 38 Play-In matches, fans viewed 160.92 million hours of play, a 61.76% percent expansion from a similar period in 2019, and the AMA expanded 87.18% YOY to 3.6 million.
Altogether, the World Championship recorded more than 1 Billion Hours Watched, the most elevated ever, and we firmly felt your help!
As we wrapped up at the Shanghai Media Tech Center, our sights were determined to the Finals. The recently assembled SAIC Motor Pudong Arena invited 6,312 live fans after we were shocked by the 3,205,750 individuals – all who should have been a Level 30 player or higher – who enrolled to come see the show live.
This year, we saw our first since forever Finals Pentakill which was amazingly pulled off by Suning's Bin on Fiora. The Finals Pentakill is the main ever found in a Finals coordinate, and the twelfth generally speaking in Worlds history.
In spite of this noteworthy triumph in Game 2 of the Finals, Suning in the end was surpassed by DAMWON Gaming for the World Championship title in a 3-1 triumph. With their great Worlds run, DAMWON Gaming set everybody straight that Korea's LoL Esports inheritance was not a relic of days gone by Viktor Runen.
The Finals were communicated in 16 dialects and across 21 stages. Subsequent to gathering, approving, and normalizing the information from everywhere the world, we are eager to share that the World Championship Finals has hit another record breaking 23.04 Million Average Minute Audience (AMA).
We were unable to have pulled off an occasion that included 114 games without the help of our twelve worldwide accomplices including four new ones: Bose, Cisco, Mercedes-Benz, and Spotify. These lofty brands joined our arrangement including Red Bull, Mastercard, OPPO, Alienware, Louis Vuitton, Ax, Secretlab, and State Farm.
Universes 2020 surpassed our assumptions and projections from various perspectives, however we're generally glad for this number: Zero positive tests for COVID-19 among our players for over a month of the opposition.
Much obliged to you for rooting for us all through the difficult yet important 2020 season. We took in a ton, demonstrated our flexibility as a game, and we're anticipating returning more grounded than at any other time for Worlds 2021 with a fabulous multi-city visit through China.