Riot Is Reportedly Interested in Returning to London for Worlds 2024 After the Success of MSI 2023

Worlds 2024 could possibly be heading again to London, igniting pleasure among the many UK League of Legends fanatics.

After the profitable internet hosting of the Mid-Season Invitational in London’s Copper Field Area, there are studies indicating that the League of Legends World Championship shall be making its manner again to the UK capital subsequent yr. Though the choice and logistics should not but finalized since we’re extra almost 5 months away from this yr’s Worlds, trusted sources have revealed to Dom Sacco from Esports News UK that London is a extremely seemingly candidate for internet hosting Worlds in 2024.

London proved to be a improbable host metropolis for MSI 2023, with a vibrant dwell crowd cheering for each workforce enjoying all through the occasion. Whereas there have been some empty seats in the course of the lengthy Play-in Stage, the playoff video games have been performed in entrance of a completely sold-out area. The match, finally gained by JDG, additionally broke the MSI viewership information with almost 800k common viewers and 2.3M peak viewers, according to Esports Charts.

Throughout a press convention held at MSI 2023, the World Head of League of Legends Esports Naz Aletaha expressed Riot Video games’ curiosity in returning to the UK for future occasions. Aletaha emphasised the significance of internet hosting occasions in areas the place followers from numerous nations can come collectively to help their favourite groups. She said, “We wish followers to have the ability to journey in if they will, and we wish to after all convey the most effective of League of Legends to all of the native followers right here. So you possibly can undoubtedly count on us to return again [to London].”

In line with Esports Information UK’s report, Riot has been in discussions with the UK authorities and entities such because the Larger London Authority, the regional governing physique of Larger London, and London & Companions, a company funded by GLA to advertise London internationally. Though London & Companions commented, “we’re not conscious of any choices which have been made for the 2024 season, however we’d be delighted to proceed to help Riot Video games,” when reached out by Esports Information UK.

One supply talked about within the reporting claimed that the O2 Area could be the venue for the Finals week of Worlds 2024, with the opposite phases going down in different European cities reminiscent of Paris, Berlin and Barcelona. Worlds touring a number of cities throughout a area is the same old manner Riot organizes these occasions, World 2019 in Europe was held in Berlin and Madrid with a Finals week in Paris. Worlds 2019 was the final World Championship held in Europe with a crowd current since Worlds 2021 in Reykjavík, Iceland was in the course of the pandemic.

There isn’t any official communication from Riot about Worlds 2024 but for the reason that first upcoming match on the calendar is the 2023 World Championship in South Korea.

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