 Riot Games After numerous battles on Summoner's Rift, the main map from the insanely popular League of Legends computer game, a huge tournament in Los Angeles recently ended with Taipei Assassins taking home the $1 million award.
It had all the makings of an Olympic event: an indoor arena, play-by-play announcers, 7,000 enthusiastic fans, uniformed competitors from across the globe and swarms of cameras capturing every angle of the action. However, when the crowd erupted into a screaming frenzy each time a player met his demise, it felt much more like "The Hunger Games."
The dizzying world championships of the online battle arena game "League of Legends" concluded Saturday night inside the University of Southern California's Galen Center, which typically hosts basketball - not video - games, with underdog Taiwan's Taipei Assassins defeating South Korea's Azubu Frost to win the tournament's $1 million grand prize.
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