On December 12, 2021, with the end of the games on Matchdown Day, the 2021 LPL All-Star Weekend officially ended in Haikou. The three-day e-sports cultural festival includes the All-Star Race, the Freshman Challenge, the Legendary Competition, as well as the "traditional projects" of the All-Star Weekend such as the Red Carpet Ceremony, the Annual Awards Ceremony, and the Solo King, as well as the "Race to Build an Ocean Paradise" public welfare activity for children with autism. It can be seen that the League of Legends e-sports industry with the LPL League as the core is no longer a carnival that only belongs to game and e-sports enthusiasts, but also shows a sense of responsibility and social responsibility as a professional sports event.
The LPL All-Star Weekend, initiated and held by Tengjing Sports since 2019, is a grand event for all gamers, esports fans, and the general public after the entire event of League of Legends throughout the year. Every year, All-Star Weekend builds on the previous edition with many innovations and optimizations aimed at creating a truly authoritative, professional, entertaining and influential LPL year-end ceremony.
LPL stars together to build a "paradise of the ocean", highlighting social responsibility and responsibility
On December 10th, LPL Cares, a sub-brand of LPL, and one fund jointly launched the "Race for Ocean Paradise" public welfare activity for children with autism, which kicked off the 2021 LPL All-Star Weekend. Ten contestants who participated in the All-Star Race: Ale, Jiejie, Scout, JackeyLove, Ming, Bin, Wei, icon, Gala, Meiko, on behalf of the LPL and 17 clubs, walked into the Haikou Yurun Special Children's Education and Training Center, brought gifts of love to the children, and spent an unforgettable afternoon with them.
Under the leadership of the school teachers, the contestants visited the school together and gained an in-depth understanding of autism. In order to be able to personally accompany and support these children, accompanied by parents, the contestants and the children participated in social game classes to improve their cognitive comprehension skills, and jointly created paintings with the theme of "Ocean Paradise". In addition to the players' active public welfare actions, LPL Cares, together with 17 clubs, will donate the economic sum of the three rounds of the All-Star Tournament (a total of 343,000 yuan) to the One Foundation's "Ocean Paradise Project" to help autistic children and their families enjoy a dignified, barrier-free and quality social life.
In the future, LPL will use the influence of e-sports to call on partners, e-sports industry practitioners, and game users to continue to pay attention to and participate in social welfare undertakings. This not only reflects the belief and potential of League of Legends, LPL and e-sports culture, eager for long-term development, but also highlights its social influence in addition to commercial value.
At the annual glory day awards ceremony, the EDG team won a number of heavyweight awards
On December 11, the red carpet ceremony kicked off the 2021 LPL All-Star Weekend Glory Day. Subsequently, the blockbuster link of this event " Annual Awards Ceremony" was officially held, more than 20 League of Legends annual awards have been announced on the spot, this year in the League of Legends Global Finals to win the championship of the EDG team became the biggest winner, Scout won the honor of the most valuable player of the year, Jiejie won the honor of the most popular player of the year. In addition, a number of players were selected for the Team of the Year. What is more worth mentioning is that the EDG team has also won two heavyweight awards of the best club of the year and the MVP of the year, as well as many awards such as the best brand marketing of the year, the best coaching staff of the year, and the best business operation case of the year.
Finally, the coronation ceremony of the second Hall of Fame was held, and Liu Mou (PDD), the former leader of the iG team and the founder of the YM team, who has delivered outstanding players to the LPL division for many times, Zhu Yihang, the founder of the EDG team, and Yan Zijing (wAwa), a well-known commentator of the LPL division, were officially crowned as members of the LPL Hall of Fame. In addition, the SOLO KING Challenge was also held interspersed with the event, and Bin from the WBG team successfully won the SOLO KING title.
At the annual award ceremony, the award guests not only included heads from various departments of Tengjing Sports and LPL-related companies, but also representatives of traditional sports events such as Deng Yaping, Pan Xiaoting, Zhu Fangyu and other representatives of traditional sports events also attended the award ceremony.
On the day of the showdown, the famous scenes of the contestants were frequent, and Ale "Immortals Guiding the Way" won the MVP of the All-Star Regular Game
On December 12, the most eye-catching All-Star Showdown Day officially began, with the legendary confrontation, the freshman challenge and the all-star main game.
In the Legendary Confrontation, the Legendary Blue Team Wild Player SofM performed brilliantly in the duel, fully controlling the rhythm of the game with its excellent blind monk and male knife, helping the team to go down to two cities in a row, and also winning the MVP honor of this Legendary Confrontation Tournament for himself.
Subsequently, in the freshman challenge, JackeyLove and icon two young coaches were used as coaches to guide the 21 freshman teams to fight and fight. The icon team broke through, with the brilliant performances of Shanks and XUN, who defeated JackeyLove and the 20 freshman team, and the icon team's wild player XUN also won the MVP honor of the freshman challenge by relying on his perfect operating data in the second set.
Finally, the finale of the showdown day, the All-Star Game, officially began. Team Jiejie and Team Meiko teamed up to present the audience with three fierce and exciting matches.
In the first "Canyon Tool Man" showdown, Jiejie team Jackey Love played a bright role after getting the hero DeLevin, constantly rolling snowballs, and taking four kills on the enemy heights. The Jiejie team, which has the advantage, advances with the Big Dragon BUFF Highlands, and the Spring Water Group defeats the Meiko team and wins the game. JackeyLove also won the honor of the best player in the first game with his eye-catching operation.
In the second "Canyon Passerby King", the two stone men on the road, Ale and Abin, are forced to develop peacefully, Jiejie chooses the male gun of the sword Saint Daye against Wei, the middle single is the double robbery confrontation between icon and Scout, and the auxiliaries on both sides of the lower road select Lacus, and the EZ of AD Gala is paired with Jackey Love Ember. In the middle of the game, Meiko's Lacus played a miracle effect, the angled Q skill repeatedly broke through the Team Jiejie front, and the icon's robbery also repeatedly single-killed, and finally Team Meiko won, and the best player in the game spent the game to take over the game's wei.
In the last competitive recruitment mode, the BP stage of the two sides is quite designed, Team Jiejie first out of victor, but swing into the lower C position, on the single green steel shadow, playing the wild blind monk, in the single Yongen, the lower road duo Victor + Prudent. The Meiko team selected Edg's classic Nakano group Prince Zoe, with Bin's signature Kenji and version of the strong down-road combination Jin Keslulu. The combination of Victor and Shin didn't play too well, and instead It was Gala's mid-term equipment-shaped Jinx who took over the game. Unexpectedly, Ale Qinggangying stabilized the rhythm with 1 enemy and 2 exquisite operations, and the follow-up Gala was accurately driven by Team Jiejie Qinggangying and blind monks in two consecutive waves, and finally Team Jiejie won the game. Ale also won the All-Star Regular Game MVP with the wonderful counter-kill of Qinggang Shadow 1V2 and the excellent performance in the entire BO3.
At this point, all the activities of this All-Star Weekend have been held and officially concluded. As a young event that has only been held for three years, All-Star Weekend has not only further improved the LPL ecosystem, but also made exploration and contribution to the vigorous development of the e-sports cultural industry. Judging from the progress of the LPL All-Star Weekend from 2019 to 2021, the LPL relies on the unique charm of League of Legends and is gradually moving closer to the mature sports league, while constantly exploring commercialization and professionalization, it is also assuming the corresponding social responsibility and responsibility.
It is believed that in the future, the League of Legends tournament system represented by the LPL will continue to flourish, which will not only bring more innovations and surprises to gamers and e-sports enthusiasts, but also bring unique cultural influence and many new values and positive impacts to the public and the whole society.