John Needham doesn’t think esports has anything to proveGameCentral reports back from the League Of Legends World Championships and speaks to Riot Games about Hong Kong and the future of esports. It’s a number too enormous to comprehend when reeled off as a statistic, but the magnitude of the appeal of League Of Legends esports is clearer when you attend an event yourself. ‘Next year is our tenth anniversary of League Of Legends as a sport and we are going to do Worlds at a scale that has never been done before. ‘It’s one of the great things about joining global esports for me right now, is we are validated as a sport,’ Needham says. ‘We invest more in League Of Legends year on year as we go.

Source: Metro November 14, 2019 01:01 UTC