League of Legends Worlds 2020 Finals ticket sale records over 2 MILLION registrants

League of Legends World Championship 2020 Finals is set to be first major esports event to be played in front of a live audience since COVID-19 pandemic. While esports events have continued in large despite pandemic, most venue-based events were converted into online-only competitions to discour social garing.

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Last week, Riot Games confirmed that Worlds 2020 FInals will be hosted with fans in arena. Grand Finale will be hosted from Shanghai’s Pudong Football Stadium, which has capacity to hold over 30,000 fans. Still early in post-lockdown phase, Riot Games will only be allowed a total of 6,312 fans to arena in order to maintain social distancing guidelines and ensure safety of attending fans. 

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While Riot allowing fans for Worlds 2020 Finals is good news for all esports fans, t many expected traffic it would get during this week's pre-registration. David Higdon, Global Head of Esports Communication at Riot Games, tweeted that over a million people had applied during pre-registrations within just four hours of  registration window going live on Monday. Within 12 hours of window being live, Higdon ted Riot had received nearly two million applicants to earn a seat at Worlds 2020 Finals. number likely breached 2-million-mark by time window closed.

Unfortunately for most LoL fans, limited number of seats means more than 99% of registrants will be left empty-handed when Riot finally anunces names of few lucky thousands to win a seat at  finals of biggest League of Legends event of year. 

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count-down for Worlds 2020 Finals begins on Thursday, October 15. KckOut st of global competition starts Thursday with first quarter-final match between DAMWON Gaming and DRX. kckouts will be played in a single-elimination format and matches will be played in a best-of-five series. LOL Worlds finals date is October 31, 2020.

League of Legends Worlds 2020: Quarter-finals schedule, match-ups

• DAMWON Gaming vs. DRX, October 15, 6:00 AM ET, 3:30 PM IST
• Suning vs. JD Gaming, October 16, 6:00 AM ET, 3:30 PM IST
• Gen.G vs G2 Esports, October 17, 6:00 AM ET, 3:30 PM IST
• TOP Esports vs. Fnatic, October 17, 6:00 AM ET, 3:30 PM IST

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(Im Credits: LoL Esports Twitter)