League of Legends getting a World Cup soon with national teams
Have you ever dreamed of a global competition for League of Legends that is not limited to certain countries, but extends to teams from around the world like the World Cup for real sports? This dream will come true, after Riot Games officials confirmed their work on the idea
With record 2.9 million viewers at the same time for the League of Legends Worlds 2019 final between G2 Esports and FunPlus Phoenix, the popular MOBA game is still popular around the world and hungry for more competitions. Fortunately, we might get a huge tournament that might even outperform Worlds, with Riot confirming the idea of the World Cup game.
The news came through ESPN reporter Tyler “FionnOnFire” Erzberger, who talked with high-ranking officials within Riot about future plans and whether the idea of a World Cup is similar to the game Overwatch in the schemes, to surprise that the answer was not “will happen” but “when it will happen” .
From Riot higher-ups:
It's a when and not an if there will be a League of Legends World Cup. They want to do it and do it right, but it'll take time (possibly years) for them to do it. They know the players have a full schedule and want to make it something worth playing in. pic.twitter.com/4lJ01c8pkD
— The Esports Writer (@FionnOnFire) November 11, 2019
This is not the first time we have heard about the possibility of creating a World Cup for the game. Riot’s head of e-sports, John Needam, spoke last week about the issue, saying that such a tournament is one of the company’s repeated requests, and that it is looking into its potential now considering the importance of Fans interacted with their national teams, promising to announce related news soon.
Riot tried a similar idea for a national competition in 2011 when it organized an event called Sound Blaster Nations Championship involving seven international teams, but it was a small event that was never repeated. The idea of the World Cup has been applied in several other games such as Overwatch, StarCraft II and PUBG, as well as global public competitions such as the Asian Games and the Olympics soon.
