The European final of League of Legends featured Christie's screening

The opening ceremony and live game presentation was broadcast across four 12-inch screens.×7 metros, hanging from a cube-shaped structure above the stage, and were used 32 3DLP projectors with high brightness, which included the latest Boxer 4K30 projection systems.

El League of Legends (LOL) has become one of the great protagonists of electronic sports or e-Sports. In September 2016, the video game distribution company, Riot Games, estimated that more than 100 millions of active players competed in an environment that combined fantasy with the steampunk genre and the cosmic horror of Lovecraft.

This year's European continental championship final took place at the VTB Ice Palace stadium in Moscow (Russia), Known to more traditional sports fans for hosting the Ice Hockey World Championship. The event was attended by 12.000 LOL fans to watch the epic competition unfold. From their seats they watched the five-time CIS champions Kira and Smurf win, who won a prize 4 million rubles and a place in the Mid-Season Invitational in Brazil and in the final of the World Championship.

The opening ceremony and live game presentation were broadcast on four 12-inch screens.×7 meters that hung from a cube-shaped structure located above the stage on which the players sat. Thirty-two projectors were used Christie Digital (3DLP with high brightness), specially designed for the event, which included the latest Christie Boxer projection systems.

Eight Boxer 4K30 projectors with lenses were installed 0.9:1 zoom in a frame, two of them fixed to the upper edges of the cube, that projected an inverted image to the other side of the cube.

“We used the Boxer series again because they are currently the most advanced projectors in their category. They are luminous, light and manageable, so it was very easy for us to move and place them. Although the transmission from the playing field was displayed on the cube screens with a resolution lower than 4K, There were more than enough reasons to use those projectors”, explains Evgeny Marinichev, technical director of the company Big Screen Service (BSS), specialized in live events.

Four more Christie Boxer 4K30 projectors with lenses 1.13:1.31 They showed images on stage (20×35 metros) in which five members of two enemy teams competed.

During breaks between games, These four screens also broadcast photos, a promotional video, fragments of interviews and a live video from the stage in which spectators could be seen, players and special guests.

“The visual design for cyber competitions at this level has taken another step forward.”. Viewers have gone further. They have gone from watching the game online on their home computers to going to a stadium to support their teams and spend time with thousands of fans like them. We love seeing how our technology is used to create collective experiences like this”, opina Sergey Dudnikov, by Christie's Russia.