Worlds 2024 might be heading again to London, igniting pleasure among the many UK League of Legends fans.
After the profitable internet hosting of the Mid-Season Invitational in London’s Copper Field Enviornment, there are studies indicating that the League of Legends World Championship might be making its manner again to the UK capital subsequent yr. Though the choice and logistics should not but finalized since we’re extra almost 5 months away from this yr’s Worlds, trusted sources have revealed to Dom Sacco from Esports News UK that London is a extremely doubtless candidate for internet hosting Worlds in 2024.
London proved to be a implausible host metropolis for MSI 2023, with a vibrant stay crowd cheering for each crew enjoying all through the occasion. Whereas there have been some empty seats throughout the lengthy Play-in Stage, the playoff video games have been performed in entrance of a totally sold-out area. The event, in the end received by JDG, additionally broke the MSI viewership data with almost 800k common viewers and 2.3M peak viewers, according to Esports Charts.
Throughout a press convention held at MSI 2023, the International Head of League of Legends Esports Naz Aletaha expressed Riot Video games’ curiosity in returning to the UK for future occasions. Aletaha emphasised the significance of internet hosting occasions in areas the place followers from varied international locations can come collectively to help their favourite groups. She said, “We wish followers to have the ability to journey in if they’ll, and we wish to after all carry the very best of League of Legends to all of the native followers right here. So you possibly can undoubtedly count on us to return again [to London].”
In response to Esports Information UK’s report, Riot has been in discussions with the UK authorities and entities such because the Better London Authority, the regional governing physique of Better London, and London & Companions, a corporation funded by GLA to advertise London the world over. Though London & Companions commented, “we’re not conscious of any choices which have been made for the 2024 season, however we’d be delighted to proceed to help Riot Video games,” when reached out by Esports Information UK.
One supply talked about within the reporting claimed that the O2 Enviornment can be the venue for the Finals week of Worlds 2024, with the opposite levels going down in different European cities equivalent to Paris, Berlin and Barcelona. Worlds touring a number of cities throughout a area is the standard manner Riot organizes these occasions, World 2019 in Europe was held in Berlin and Madrid with a Finals week in Paris. Worlds 2019 was the final World Championship held in Europe with a crowd current since Worlds 2021 in Reykjavík, Iceland was throughout the pandemic.
There is no such thing as a official communication from Riot about Worlds 2024 but because the first upcoming event on the calendar is the 2023 World Championship in South Korea.
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