At the beginning of November, the final of the World Championship in “League of Legends” took place in Europe. Over four million viewers worldwide watched the spectacle on screen or live – a new record. The South Koreans and title favorites DWG Kia and the Chinese from Edward Gaming played in the final.

Edward Gaming managed to beat the favorites and surprisingly took the win, even though they never made it further than the quarterfinals. This created a lot of hype among the Chinese fans – they celebrated the victory well into the night. It’s almost like the World Cup – there are hardly any differences here.

The Opening Ceremony delivered a show with star cast: Imagine Dragons showed their new song “Enemy” in a music video, which they produced especially for the game and the Netflix series. This brings us to the second point.

Characters from the “League of Legends” universe trump exciting personalities living in a fictional world. The new Netflix series “Arcane” shows the backstory of some of the game characters and sits at IMDB, the online movie database, currently at 9.4 out of 10. On Netflix, the series landed in second place worldwide after a short time, after Squid Game.

The animation and music – the opening is by Imagine Dragons – show that video game adaptations can also deliver quality. Due to its popularity on Netflix, a major e-sports title is thus coming to the attention of non-professionals. Developer Riot Games plans to continue presenting the franchise in the film and series industry in the future.

It all started in 2009 with the complex strategy game “League of Legends”. Over the course of more than ten years, the game has become the most popular e-sports title in the world. Only in the last two years have there been other games from Riot Games, which should also cover other interests:

The car-battler “Teamfight Tactics”.

The online card game “Legends of Runeterra

The lite version of “League of Legends” for smartphone: “Wild Rift”.
Other genres have been confirmed to be in development so far. Among them a fighting game, action role-playing game and more. As before, all the games will probably have a connection to e-sports, in which Riot Games is the pioneer.

It can be expected that Riot’s strategy to get attention outside the gaming scene has probably not reached its peak yet. However, this is certainly not a bad sign for e-sports.