The LPL organizers have confirmed on Twitter that the Worlds 2020’s finals on October 31 will welcome 6,312 spectators to Shanghai’s Pudong Stadium by sending them free tickets.

Specifically, the registration to receive tickets for the finals takes place from 12:00 on October 12 to 23:59 on October 14. Right after that, the random picking process will occur on October 15. The results will be announced on October 16. Tickets will be randomly distributed based on ID or passport.

There are also some of the conditions to attend the giveaway: The player must own a level-30 account in League of Legends and have a Chinese phone number. Therefore, there will be no opportunity for bad people to take advantage of this.

Sharing more about this, reporter Ran posted:

Worlds final will have a live audience in the stadium! And the ticket is free! 6312 audience will have the chance to go into the venue and witness the birth of #Worlds2020 champions!https://t.co/7UaPYMO1yZ pic.twitter.com/fzhmpV5WhO

— Ran (@ran_lpl) October 10, 2020

The awesome promotion activities for Worlds really impact a lot on the community, which will help Riot achieve the goal of attracting millions of followers worldwide in the near future. With the Worlds series, Riot definitely wants to create epic media products that bring League of Legends to people who have never heard of the game.

If you want more details about it, click the link below:

https://koigate.tumblr.com/post/631564331657691136/worlds-2020-final-will-have-live-audience-and-the

Welcome to the Liquid Family, @asabfb

We’re happy to have you on board, and look forward to seeing what you accomplish next.

(also if we ever need a sub for dota or smash, you’re getting a call) pic.twitter.com/71GxG6I7TY

— Team Liquid (@TeamLiquid) October 7, 2020

Team Liquid shared on Twitter: “We’re happy to have you on board, and look forward to seeing what you accomplish next. (also if we ever need a sub for Dota or Smash, you’re getting a call)“

Asa Butterfield couldn’t hold back his joy when he was able to join Team Liquid: “Kind of unreal, I remember finding all the Starcraft2 streams on liquipedia back in the day, they were the first esports team even I knew of. Thanks for bringing me in gang. Let’s do some coooool ****“

YOOOOO??!
Kind of unreal, I remember finding all the Starcraft2 streams on liquipedia back in the day, they were the first esports team even I knew of.
Thanks for bringing me in gang 🙏🏼 let’s do some coooool shit 👀 https://t.co/g16QgHFPOh

— Asa Butterfield (@asabfb) October 7, 2020

Currently, Team Liquid has no announcement of Asa’s position in the roster. But last year, the 1997-born actor competed in a Super Smash Bros Ultimate tournament. In December 2019, Asa also shared some of his activities in Dota 2 and Super Smash Bros:

7 years of Dota – “take me back to the good old days” pic.twitter.com/RTtsLefWqj

— Asa Butterfield (@asabfb) December 9, 2019

Because you asked. pic.twitter.com/u8IbTNMPzh

— Asa Butterfield (@asabfb) January 5, 2020

This is very rare for an actor to join an esports organization. Asa has been acting since he was 9 years old. He became a famous star after starring in a hot Netflix’s drama – Sex Education. Before that, he gained his reputation from “Ender’s Game (Ender Wiggin)” and “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Jacob Portman)”.

Asa Butterfield used to stream on Twitch but only got 2,000 followers and no videos were recorded. Now, fans can see the handsome actor participating in more esports activities online.

The ultimate is an extremely important part of a champion’s skill set, it is the champion’s most powerful tool and maybe the most impressive and unique thing that symbolize the champion such as Dragon’s Rage of Lee Sin, Death Mark of Zed, Destiny / Gate of Twisted Fate or Last Breath of Yasuo, etc.

Ekko is also a champion that has a special ultimate: Chronobreak. It is considered to be one of the most powerful skills if used correctly. A special feature of this skill is that it doesn’t require casting time and it teleports you back to where you were seconds ago.

The downside of this skill is that if you want to attack an opponent, this ultimate does not help much because it will leave behind a “shadow” of yourself to show the enemy where you were. Probably the opponent will stay away from it to avoid taking damage from your ultimate

If you can’t burst damage quickly and have to pull out early, it’s a waste of this skill. That’s why an Ekko player figured out how a trick for his ultimate which is not to immediately level your ultimate when you reach 6.

Although not getting your ultimate at level 6 hides where you will teleport to, it is difficult for you to remember where you were 4 seconds ago. So in order to apply this trick into real combat, you must be an Ekko player and have a good sense of the space and time in the game, thereby you can handle it accurately in real situations.

More in-depth guide about playing Ekko here:

After leaving Vici Gaming, Coach kkOma returned to Korea to take care of his family. However, it doesn’t mean that he will leave League of Legends, especially when Worlds was occurring. Currently, KkOma is a guest for a Korean channel that makes contents about Worlds.

And in a broadcast yesterday, KkOma shared his opinion about DAMWON Gaming’s chance to be crowned at Worlds 2020. The coach who reached the highest peak of League of Legends’ World Championship three times highly evaluated DWG and confidently predicted that this team would bring glory to the country of Korea.

“I think DAMWON Gaming will be crowned this year“

“In general, compared to other teams, DAMWON players always maintain good performance, no one is a weak player, nor any games are under-performed, all 5 of them play really well. Nuguri is almost invincible in his lane and he can overwhelm any opponent. DWG is very strong in every lane and that limits the ability of the enemy jungler to intervene in any of the lanes nor invade their jungle. In general, DAMWON’s players are doing really well, and I think they’ll do it this year (winning Worlds).”

Even none of us (LCK) is a champion, DWG is the brightest star of the region at this tournament. They can maintain a stable state of mind with unimaginable capability of playing the game. Therefore, no matter what, I will support DAMWON.”

After 2 days of the tournament, DWG is one of a few teams to maintain a full victory. They had a large champion pool (14) and they won against JD Gaming (JDG) – one of the top LPL teams.

Faker and T1 don’t have much time to relax after a long season. During this time, in addition to climbing the rank, the whole team of T1 is trying new forms of entertainment such as playing Among Us or making a few small mini-games in League of Legends.

Of course, they still have to practice in solo queue continuously to at least receive the rewards at the end of the season and to have a high division so that they are still considered as great players.

However, during Worlds 2020, his own climbing process doesn’t seem great when he is constantly matched with the “gods”.

Here is his op.gg profile, you can see his history yourself: https://www.op.gg/summoner/userName=Hide+on+bush

Red series of defeats have probably made Faker so upset with Riot Games by “intentionally” matching him with “overweight” teammates that he cannot bear with:

Faker blamed: “Of course when I go bot, our mid loses, our bot loses, our top loses, our jungle loses. Because I’m so good Riot manipulated matching balanced.“

Since this sentence is invented, from now on, in addition to “Game’s errors”, Faker had one more very “reasonable” reason to cover his under-performance.

You can see more of his highlights here:

Esports Awards are annual awards for individuals and organizations that contribute to the Esports industry. Currently, this is one of the most reputable awards in the esports community and attracts a lot of gaming fans.

Once again this year, the Esports Awards officially announced the nomination list for 31 categories such as Best esports PC player of the year, Esports organization of the year, rookie of the year …

In 2017, the Demon King was awarded the title “Esports PC player of the year”. But this year, Faker was not nominated in any category. The players nominated for the most prestigious award this time are Zywoo (CSGO), Knight (League of Legends), Caps (League of Legends), etc. Notably, the 18 years old star of Fornite, Bugha, is also one of the 12 nominees.

Like Faker, T1 did not appear in the list of nominees for the title “Esports team of the year”. League teams that can compete for this title are G2 Esports, TOP Esports and DWG. DAMWON Gaming is the only Korean team on this list. Meanwhile, Team Vitality is a representative of CSGO. Similarly, Team Secret is a representative of Dota 2.

In the category of “Esports mobile game of the year”, there were Arena of Valor, Free Fire and PUBG Mobile. These are games that have a large number of players and tournaments all over the world.

Apart from above categories, the Esports Awards 2020 also has categories for casters and analysts.

Recently, the “harem” of the “Demon King” has gained a new member – Zion.T – a Korean hip-hop, R&B singer. The handsome singer shared a photo on Instagram of an ice cream cone Faker version. He even wrote on the picture with a message: “Someone I respect”, which makes his fans admire his idol’s idol more and more.

Before Zion.T, a member of Super Junior – Heechul was also a passionate fanboy of the “Demon King”. He even canceled his parties to join a show with Faker.

Moreover, Baekhyun (EXO) was very interested in Faker. The main vocalist of SM could not hide his excitement when he met him at the SKT 5G’s launch event in Korea. He just greeted and laughed repeatedly, perhaps because he was so thrilled that he was able to sit next to his idol like that.

Needless to say, Lee “Faker” Sanghyeok has an attractive aura that could attract lots of people, including celebrities around the world.

It’s not strange that Faker is loved by many celebrities because of his talent and rich achievements in eSports. He has become a legend with 3 World Championship titles and many other outstanding successes that bring him to the peak of a professional Esports player.

On September 25, Worlds 2020 officially kicked off. The opening of the play-in series is a match between MAD Lions (seed No.4 of LEC) and INTZ (seed No.1 of Brazil). As it’s the biggest tournament of the year, fans are always waiting for the awesome highlights and memorable moments. Despite the professional environment with well-trained players, the first remarkable moment of Worlds 2020 is INTZ’s awkwardly ill-performed play.

After 7 minutes, Evelynn ganked Urgot. Her gank was failed when Urgot flashed towards his turret to escape. Immediately, Gragas appeared, threatening to countergank the MAD’s top-laner and jungler. Urgot then used his “R” – Fear Beyond Death perfectly, making Evelynn unable to escape. INTZ’s damage calculation was perfect.

But instead of re-activating his ultimate to finish off Evelynn, Tay mistakenly pressed “F” – Teleport into the control ward that Gragas had placed seconds ago. Evelynn successfully escaped, INTZ had to go home with bare hands. It was probably a performance that MAD and the audiences could not believe their eyes.

Urgot’s mistake caused him to lose his first blood and even his teleport but it didn’t bring back any advantage to him or his team. From that moment, Renekton was ahead of the Urgot when he still had his teleport. Undoubtedly, Tay’s performance will be mentioned a lot in the future.

After more than 700k votes during the bracket, here is YOUR Most Memorable Play in Worlds History:

🏆 @T1LoL‘s Wombo Combo Comeback vs EDG 🏆 pic.twitter.com/IhecfTGY8K

— LoL Esports (@lolesports) September 26, 2020

Recently, LOL Esports officially closed the poll for the most impressive moment in Worlds history. Most of the plays were performed in LCK, EU, NA and Worlds.

This year, the victory belonged to SKT’s perfect wombo combo against EDG in 2017. In the context of losing 10,000 money with the score 0-9, SKT initiated a 5v5 combat. Wolf dazzled beautifully with Rakan to the EDG team. Orianna in Faker’s hand swirled the beautiful Sound Wave. Huni with Chogath silenced and blown the enemies up into the air, setting the advantages for Twitch in Bang’s hands to shoot freely.

Certainly, SKT’s combo deserves this title. 5 members of SKT teamed up perfectly with full of surprises. SKT’s job to overlapping CC effects was perfect. Meanwhile, EDG is too arrogant when moving close to each other. EDG’s gold difference became completely pointless after this amazing performance made by SKT.

Unfortunately, this year, Faker and his teammates can not participate in Worlds 2020. This title will be a comforting reward for the Demon King when he has to sit at home watching this tournament.

The current situation

Although the game industry is not being affected too much before, it is slowly getting entangled in an economic war between the United States and China. TikTok was the first victim when the US Government investigated the behavior of sending the personal data of millions of Americans to China. Yes, they are paying the price, a heavy price. Yet, this platform is under control in the US while an agreement about a restructuring of TikTok (changing the interface, how it is managed, operated, etc.) is still in consideration in this country.

The dispute between these two big companies might last longer. The US Government is currently assessing many game companies including Riot Games (League of Legends, VALORANT) and Epic Games (Fortnite).

Tencent now owns 100% of Riot Games and 40% of Epic Games. According to Bloomberg, these two organizations will likely be forced to provide the Americans with specific information about its online data security protocols. After a great amount of data is leaked, it’s understandable that the US need to dispel fears of data leakage to China once and forever.

“Tencent’s U.S. gaming investments, including Riot Games, Epic Games and Activision. Blizzard may be at risk of forced divestment similar to ByteDance’s TikTok with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. launching an inquiry on national security grounds. We estimate Tencent’s U.S. assets could be worth at least $22 billion, and account for 6-7% of its sales and profits.” – Vey-Sern Ling and Tiffany Tam, analysts

Aimen Mir, former CFIUS president, previously told Bloomberg as he expressed his concern towards this problem:

“When you’re talking about massive amounts of data, there’s probably something for the committee to look at.”
“The question then becomes is the risk high enough that it actually warrants forcing deals apart.”

More details can be found in this video, published by Bloomberg: