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Mo Fadl berättar om Forge of Champions

Forge of Champions har just avslutat och vi tog ett snack med Riots Head of UK Esports Mo Fadl om tävlingen. Han sade: "In the first few weeks when they opened up the open…
Jonas Mäki Editor Sweden 18 september 2018

Forge of Champions har just avslutat och vi tog ett snack med Riots Head of UK Esports Mo Fadl om tävlingen. Han sade:

"In the first few weeks when they opened up the open brackets already and we had thousands of players signing up to play against the pro teams, we realised 'hey wait, there's something happening that we didn't understand'. We didn't even [think] something like this could happen - we had some issues with our backend system in the first place - and then the viewership, interaction numbers, everything is like triple, four, five times higher than anything we've ever had before in the UK.

We want to focus on entertainment a lot, like moving away from the traditional esports being cold and very sporty, and be more entertaining, try new styles with the stream, be very, very testy - we're open for tests completely - and focus on the entertainment factor more than the sports factor. We can see it resonates very, very well with a wider audience, and based on this [...] we said our learning was 'hey guys we have to even go deeper, we have to work with influencers, with Twitch, with YouTube [...] we have to make it inclusive to the players who want to participate."

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Editor Sweden Jonas Mäki has written for Gamereactor since 2002, becoming an editor in 2007. He covers the video game industry across news, releases and the business side, with a particular interest in sales figures and where the industry is heading.
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