{"id":16048,"date":"2021-05-05T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/shenzhen-to-host-lol-worlds-2021-in-november-riot-announces"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T12:08:52","slug":"shenzhen-to-host-lol-worlds-2021-in-november-riot-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/league-of-legends\/shenzhen-to-host-lol-worlds-2021-in-november-riot-announces","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhen to host LoL Worlds 2021 in November, Riot announces"},"content":{"rendered":"
Riot Games announced today that the 2021 LoL World Championship will be held in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, starting from 6th November 2021.<\/p>\n
This will be the 11th edition of the League of Legends<\/a> World Championship, one of the longest-running and biggest annual esports events.<\/p>\n Worlds 2021 marks the second time in a row that the crowning event of League of Legends esports will be held in China, as the 2020 World Championship was held in Shanghai.<\/p>\n According to a report by Yahoo<\/a>, the event will be held in Shenzen’s Universiade Sports Centre, also known as Longgang Stadium. This multi-use complex was built in 2011 for the purpose of the 2011 Summer Universiade and features a stadium with a capacity of 60,000 spectators, where the 2021 Worlds will take place.<\/p>\n Riot explains that they have chosen Shenzhen to host Worlds because the city is “a leading financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region” with “four pillar industries of high technology, finance, logistics, and culture.”<\/p>\n In the press release, Riot states that their ambitions for this year’s Worlds are bigger than ever before, as their goal is to bring a “top-tier entertainment experience not yet seen in esports history.”<\/p>\n Over the last couple of years, China is considered to be one of the strongest League of Legends regions and the popularity of the game is tremendous in the country.<\/p>\n Teams from the League of Legends Pro League (LPL) were crowned world champions twice in the last three years, Invictus Gaming in 2018 and FunPlus Phoenix in 2019.<\/p>\n The second biggest League of Legends event of the year, the 2021 Mid-Season Invitational, will be held from 6th to 23rd May in Reykjavík, Iceland, and it will feature the first-ever female player to compete at the event.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Riot Games announced today that the 2021 LoL World Championship will be held in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, starting from 6th November 2021. This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1832,"featured_media":16049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-of-legends","genre-moba","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Riot plans to utilize “the prismatic architecture and design of the venue.” (Picture: Windmemories)<\/span><\/p>\n\n