In the Play-off Sea Championship, 8 teams will compete with one part of the total bonus of $ 200,000 as well as 2 capacity to the global speed tournament in November. 8 teams with the best record in the group stage to win tickets to the play-off round including: SBTC Esports, Divine, EVOS, Buriram United, Team Secret, MBR Esports, One Team and Flash Wolves. The final of the tournament will take place on October 3 and the famous K-pop group Aespa will have a performance at the opening ceremony.
Aespa is a K-pop girl group from Korea, founded by SM Entertainment. The group was released at the end of 2020 and is still dominating global music charts with the super “Next Level”, which is also the song that will be performed at the opening ceremony of the Sea Championship 2021, organized by ESL Mobile Challenge.
“Over the past two years, Riot has grown dramatically more than a pure Games company. We have been more active in the field of music, when two virtual bands K/Da and Pentakill have new products in the past year,” – G.Justin Holog, CEO Riot Games Southeast Asia and North China Taipei shared.
“Esports fans are no stranger to music performances, when the MNL48 group performed the opening of the Summer Super Cup in June recently. Currently, we are extremely excited to announce the presence of Aespa at the final of Sea Championship and hope to bring fans the best quality performance possible.”
Sea Championship 2021 is part of the Icon Series, Riot's official Esports Mobile tournament system in Southeast Asia, Taipei China and Hong Kong for League of Legends: Speed. The tournament is organized through the cohesive cooperation between Asian ESL and Riot Games Southeast Asia.
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Sea Championship is organized by ESL Mobile Challenge, which is part of the ESL Mobile ecosystem, a global Esports program to bring many opportunities for players to show their talents and come to the professional Esports journey.
Nick Vanzetti, Senior Vice President of Asia -Pacific, also shared: “ESL always put players and fans as the focus of tournaments and events. We always want to create impressive things for them and ESL Mobile Asia combined with the SEA Championship 2021 is a promising milestone that brings memorable moments for fans around the world.”
“Therefore, we are honored to introduce the Aespa group at the opening ceremony when they will show the performance that caused a fever in Korea to the Sea Championship audience. This also promises to be an extremely satisfied final.”
