As a new competitive sport event, E-sports have developed into electronic competitive man-to-man sports with modern competitive sports spirits. E-sports have gained large number of followers, and become more and more solemn and standardized. Each year, professional tournaments of League of Legends attract great attention. From the Spring Season at the beginning of the year to Damacia Cup at the end of the year, competitions of each stage are all worth watching.
From July 5 to July 8, teams with excellent players from each zone will gather in Dalian Sports Center, thus there will definitely be a world-level professional competition in Dalian. Top four teams from each zone of LPL, LCK, and LMS which have stood out from the spring season, totaling up to 12 teams, will strive to win the honorary title ‘No.1 in Asia’. There are two stages, i.e. group games and knockouts. Championship for Rift Rivals 2018 League of Legends will be decided in the four-day competition. Teams from LCK have won the most titles by far in the world. As the former champion, LMS team will challenge the defending champion LPL team. As the host, LPL team will certainly defend its home court. Uzi from RNG and Faker from SKT are the top two seeded players in this Rift Rivals. In May of this year, the genius teenager Uzi led RNG to beat KZ, which claimed to win the champion of the mid season easily, and won the trophy; Faker, once praised as the No. 1 Mid in the world, has set a record that he used 11 different mid heroes in 17 LCK professional games. Faker will long be engraved in the history of League of Legends as a symbol.
Since Dalian Sports Center will hold E-sports event for the first time, arrangements of stadiums can compare to those of ten-thousand people concerts. Lighting and sound effects will create unprecedented and grand scenes, which will enable not only players in the center of the stage to be focused by on-the-spot audiences but also online viewers to watch the fierce competition. A competition that is truly E-sports carnival for all will be built for thousands of players.