League of Legends gaming final fills Seoul stadium It had all the sound and fury of a big sporting event: 40,000 fans roaring in the cauldron of a huge football stadium. There were corporate sponsors, young superstar players and a million dollar prize to the winner. And yet this raucous contest involved barely a drop of sweat and absolutely no muscular exertion beyond the furious clicking of fingers on a computer mouse. The final of the 2014 League of Legends World Championship may only have been an online game - or e-sport, as the players and promoters prefer to call it - but it had all the feel of any traditional major sporting drama. The World Cup stadium in Seoul was packed for this years final between the Star Horn Royal Club from China and Samsung White. At the previous final a year ago, 32 million people watched around the world, online, or in cinemas.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:36:51 +0000
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