Every week, hundreds of thousands of LCS fans tune in from all over the world to watch their favorite teams play League of Legends via online streams. Unfortunately, despite the growing popularity of esports and the LCS in particular, it can be tough to find like-minded folks out in the wild who want to get together to watch a game. League of Legends’ origin on personal computer screens has translated into a culture of solitary streaming of competitive games. However, things are starting to change as esports gets bigger, with help from dedicated efforts like those of Community Gaming New York (AKA CGNY), who are hosting a public screening of the NA LCS Spring Split Finals between TSM and CLG.
Over e-mail, CGNY founder Chris Kovalik told me that he sees CGNY as an organization “for those who want gaming to be a bigger and better part of their lives.” CGNY primarily hosts “pop-up” LAN gaming events at different venues around New York, bringing gamers together to play League of Legends and other games in person. The volunteer-driven organization started hosting viewing parties for esports events based on interest within the group, with a focus on League of Legends. Their largest event so far was a movie theater screening of the 2015 World Championship, which drew 400 people to watch games starting at four in the morning.
porocakesPoro Cupcakes by PhoenixCrypt. Credit: @Aperturious
Kovalik expects the crowd to be a little lighter for this weekend’s regional Finals. Even so, “premium” tickets that come bundled with a t-shirt and cupcake have already sold out. The shirt features canceled champion Ao Shin watching the games from home along with the audience, and the cupcakes are decorated to look like poros. Kovalik sees the premium ticket bundles, which split a share of the proceeds with contributing designers (and bakers), as directly in line with CGNY’s mission: “The whole purpose for CGNY is to enable people to have gaming be a bigger and better part of their lives. For some, this means having an economic benefit associated with their passion. We couldn’t be more proud to support grassroots gaming entrepreneurs and artists like Meowth, who designed our T-Shirts, and PhoenixCrypt who is baking and decorating the Poro Cupcakes.”
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