The opening ceremonies for the League of Legends World Championship are historically a giant spectacle, that includes every thing from augmented actuality Ok-pop teams to rapping holograms. But this 12 months’s version can have an additional particular visitor: Lil Nas X.
Today, Riot introduced a collaboration with Lil Nas X, which is highlighted by a efficiency at Worlds at the Chase Center in San Francisco on November fifth. Though there are not any particulars on what to anticipate from the present, Lil Nas X confirmed in an announcement that it will be “the greatest, coolest, sexiest Worlds in the historical past of all Worlds.” So it sounds such as you may need to tune in.
Prior to that, on September twenty third, the artist will likely be releasing the annual Worlds anthem with a track known as “Star Walkin,” and from November third to the 14th, League gamers can get an in-game pores and skin for the hero Ok’Sante, which was co-designed by Lil Nas X and may solely be unlocked by enjoying League throughout the occasion window.
This isn’t the first time Lil Nas X has partnered with a giant online game, with a earlier digital live performance look inside Roblox. That was half of a wave of digital concert events together with the likes of Ariana Grande in Fortnite and Blackpink in PUBG Mobile. Riot, in the meantime, is no stranger to musical collaborations, having not too long ago labored on a brand new track and music video with Porter Robinson.
As for Worlds, arguably the greatest esports competitors in the world, this 12 months’s version will kick off on September twenty ninth in Mexico City, with subsequent rounds in New York and Atlanta, culminating in the finals in San Francisco on November fifth. (Toronto was initially a bunch metropolis however was later changed by Atlanta.) In the lead-up, Riot beforehand introduced that the iconic Summoner’s Cup — the League of Legends World Championship trophy — has been redesigned by Tiffany & Co.
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