Published 13:42 IST, October 15th 2020
League of Legends Worlds 2020 Finals ticket sale records over 2 MILLION registrants
League of Legends Worlds 2020 Finals will host a little over 6,000 fans in the arena. However, the pre-registration window saw over two million applicants.
League of Legends World Championship 2020 Finals is set to be the first major esports event to be played in front of a live audience since the COVID-19 pandemic. While esports events have continued in large despite the pandemic, most venue-based events were converted into online-only competitions to discourage social gathering.
Last week, Riot Games confirmed that Worlds 2020 FInals will be hosted with fans in the arena. The Grand Finale will be hosted from Shanghai’s Pudong Football Stadium, which has the capacity to hold over 30,000 fans. Still early in the post-lockdown phase, Riot Games will only be allowed a total of 6,312 fans to the arena in order to maintain the social distancing guidelines and ensure the safety of the attending fans.
While Riot allowing fans for Worlds 2020 Finals is good news for all esports fans, not many expected the traffic it would get during this week's pre-registration. David Higdon, the Global Head of Esports Communication at Riot Games, tweeted that over a million people had applied during the pre-registrations within just four hours of the registration window going live on Monday. Within 12 hours of the window being live, Higdon noted Riot had received nearly two million applicants to earn a seat at Worlds 2020 Finals. The number likely breached the 2-million-mark by the time window closed.
Unfortunately for most LoL fans, the limited number of seats means more than 99% of the registrants will be left empty-handed when Riot finally announces the names of the few lucky thousands to win a seat at the finals of the biggest League of Legends event of the year.
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The count-down for Worlds 2020 Finals begins on Thursday, October 15. The KnockOut stage of the global competition starts Thursday with the first quarter-final match between DAMWON Gaming and DRX. The knockouts 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
(Image Credits: LoL Esports Twitter)
Updated 13:42 IST, October 15th 2020