Vagame to produce LCS in multiple languages

STOCKHOLM June 25, 2014 – Viagame will be producing and broadcasting the North American and European LoL Championship Series’ (LCS) live in Swedish, Romanian and Bulgarian during the summer. LCS is one of the largest eSports leagues in the world, where the North American 2013 finals sold out Staples Center in only one hour.

League of Legends, created by Riot Games, is the biggest computer game in the world. The game has 67 million players every month, where 27 million play the game every day. The latest world championship held in League of Legends had 32 million viewers globally.

Within eSports, LCS is best compared to Champions League in football. The world’s best eSports teams are competing against each other in the league with the goal to advance to the World Championship, Worlds, held at the Sangam Stadium in South Korea in October.

“LCS is the pinnacle league of all eSports with Millions of viewers worldwide. To produce local broadcasts of this is something we look forward to, bringing eSports to an even bigger audience in the Nordics as well as Central Europe. MTG, with Viasat, have always been excellent in local production and broadcasting and our goal is the same with eSports.” Says Simon Sundén, Content Manager at Viagame.

If you want to follow some of the biggest eSports stars in the world, such as the Swede Martin “Rekkles” Larsson, do it on www.viagame.com from June 26 starting 18.00 CET. There will be broadcasts four days a week, with approximately four matches played each day.