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China wins champion of world game contest in U.S.

Xinhua, May 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

A Chinese team specialized in Riot Games on Sudnay beat team of South Korea, winning the champion of a world level contest of its kind in Tallahassee, capital of U.S. State of Florida.

The five-member team from China has defeated other rivals before fighting with team of South Korea at the Sunday's final of the popular PC/Mac video game "League of Legends" (LOL) dubbed the Mid-Season Invitational.

The week-long competition is effectively a six-team regional battle with champions from North America, South Korea, China, Europe, Turkey and Chinese Taipei meeting up to wage war in a fantasy realm.

Last year's LOL World Championship in Seoul, South Korea, had 32 million viewers worldwide watching online. This year's World Championship will have group phases in Paris, bracket stages in London, and then conclude in the finals in Berlin.

And Tallahassee was the recipient of the first-ever Mid-Season Invitational of LOL, which would be like the champions of various soccer leagues: English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, Colombian Liga, getting together to determine bragging rights.

Besides thousands of audience at the liveshow spot, three broadcast channels are being adopted to allow LOL fanbase to watch the events in Tallahassee globally: one for the U.S. which was sent to a studio in Los Angeles, another to South Korea and a third directed to China.

The prize pool for the LOL Mid-Season Invitational is 200,000 U.S. dollars, with the champion team winning a reward of 100,000 dollars. The prize money for the 2014 LOL World Championship was 2.1 million dollars. Endi