Die Zuschauer sehen die Eröffnung der eSports Veranstaltungsort der LGD-Spiele in den Hailan internationalen E-Sports Entertainment Center in Hangzhou City, Eas
Audiences watch the opening ceremony of the LGD Gaming's eSports venue at the Hailan International E-sports Entertainment Center in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, 16 November 2018. The LGD Gaming's multimillion-dollar eSports venue officially opened at the Hailan International E-sports Entertainment Center in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province, 16 November 2018. Specially designed eSports arenas are appearing in the United States and China to accommodate growing crowds attending multi-team tournaments. But the LPL's "home stadiums" put China ahead of the curve, industry insiders said. Beginning play in 2013, LPL matches were staged in Shanghai. But Chinese Internet giant Tencent, the league's owner, is encouraging teams to lay down local roots. Occupying 2, 200 sq m, it features press conference venues, fan zones, practice spaces, a bar, a gift shop and high-tech control rooms where squads of young technicians coordinate Web broadcasts to millions of spectators. On stage, LGD's five-man squad sit like astronauts at futuristic consoles, controlling avatars who battle a team from the city of Nanjing on a 7m-wide screen above them. Announcers breathlessly call the action, play by play. In the stands, around 400 fans, sitting in chairs with massage functions, bang thundersticks and roar whenever the on-screen action - a frantic brawl in a fantasy world - heats up.
