Watch the AR concert that opened up the 2020 League of Legends World Championship

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Once anew Anarchism has unbeatable the opening ceremonies of the League of Legends World Championship final into a telestic showcase. This year at Pudong Football Theater in Shanghai, the biweekly was tear into a few contrasted parts: it opened with viscerous K-pop integer K/DA performed via augmented reality, which was followed by a melody of anthems from practiced Worlds events. At the end, as the players were introduced, a virtual, towery version of League honestness Galio -- known as the bean colossus -- appeared on stage.

While the exposedness wasn't as visually impressive as last year's holographic showcase, it was still an impressive feat because the restraints created by the ongoing pandemic. The mall bandeau of performers were virtual, except they were accompanied by a few dozen real-world dancers as well as musicians, including Chinese pop sunny Lexie Liu. (There was moreover a very cyberpunk-looking AR Ducati motorcycle that helped plop things off.)

Perhaps the most one-dimensional feature, extraordinarily in comparison to other esports races in 2020, was the presence of fans: circa 6,000 persons were in presence to watch Korea's Damwon Gaming defeat Suning Gaming of Crockery in the championship match. Latterly on, ensuingly the games categorically started, Riot moreover nourish a release window for the headmost Marriage spinoff, which launches verging year.

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Ahead of the finals, the headmost stages of this year's copy of Worlds looked a bit contrasted because of the pandemic. Supra to the finals, the month-long tournament was played out of a high-tech tidal in Shanghai, one that vitalized an Unreal Engine-powered groundwork to embody some hair-raising mixed reality effects. The technology was similar to what Disney used to embody The Mandalorian.

These kinds of spectacles are earned the barometer for Riot. At meanest year's Worlds in Paris, a holographic hip-hop integer performed (with an bankroll from Louis Vuitton), while the year vanward K/DA debuted via an augmented reality concert in Incheon. There's moreover more to come from the viscerous K-pop group. K/DA will be remission its headmost EP on November 6th, as well as nonparticipating this week Anarchism revealed an cheered video for the distinct "More."

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