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The organizers have now revealed all broadcast talent for the League of Legends tournament at the Esports World Cup 2024, and the community has responded with mixed reactions. The first event of the annual Esports World Cup is scheduled to happen this summer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On June 26, 2024, the official X account of the Esports World Cup unveiled all participating on-air broadcast talent.
Read on to learn more about the upcoming League of Legends tournament at the Esports World Cup and all of its broadcast talent.
League of Legends broadcast talent at Esports World Cup 2024
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The Esports World Cup consists of various games, among which League of Legends is a game that will feature a prize pool of one million dollars. A total of eight teams are participating from the strongest regions in the world for LoL. These include T1 and GenG from Korea, G2 from Europe, Bilibili Gaming from China, Team Liquid from North America, and others.
As per the X post made by Esports World Cup, here is the broadcast talent for League of Legends:
- Steve "Kangas" Kangas (USA): Stage host
- Daniel "dGon" Gonzales (USA): Desk host
- Dan "Aux" Harrison (UK): Analyst
- Brendan "Valdes" Valdes (USA): Caster
- Joshua "Joushi" Howard (USA): Caster
- Max "Atlus" Anderson (Australia): Caster
- Wolf "Wolf" Schröder (USA): Caster
- Athena "Kitty" Jiang (Australia): Interviewer
- Keltoum "Giniro" Baddaje (Morocco, Netherlands): Content host
These well-known hosts, analysts, casters, and interviewers hail from various corners of the globe and oversee diverse tournaments. Kangas hosts the LoL LCS tournaments, while personas such as dGon, Aux, Valdes, Atlus, and Wolf are from the LCK tournament. Furthermore, Kitty is a Twitch streamer who has cast LPL matches in the past.
The announcement was met with a mixed reception from X users, with some disappointed over the picks and others excited for what's to come. Even though many owners of esports organizations have warmly received Saudi Arabia's interest and investments in esports, there are some within the esports community who have mixed feelings.
That's mainly due to Saudi Arabia's human rights record. Some have questioned "sportwashing" as a result of receiving funds from Saudi Arabia. That seems to be the primary reason for this backlash on the internet.
Read more: All organizations taking part in Esports World Cup
Esports World Cup 2024 will not feature co-streaming for several languages
The Esports World Cup will let content creators stream the games on their respective channels. However, co-streaming won't be available for Fortnite and Rocket League.
These languages are not available for the co-streaming:
- Korean
- Indonesian
- Hindi (COD: WZ, CS2, EA FC, Fortnite, LoL, PUBG)
- Ukrainian (DOTA 2, CS2)
- French (LoL, StarCraft 2, Rocket League)
- Russian (COD: WZ, LoL, Overwatch 2, Fortnite, PUBG, DOTA 2, CS2, StarCraft 2, MLBB)
- Brazilian Portuguese (DOTA 2)
Read more: LoL tournament at the Esports World Cup 2024 schedule
The League of Legends event is going to run from July 4 to July 6, 2024. All eight teams will play best-of-three and single-elimination matches. However, the Grand Final will be played in a best-of-five format.
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