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The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, attended today the presentation of the Superliga Orange 'League of Legends' grand final, a national videogame competition that will be attended by nearly 800 people this Sunday, March 25, from the Teatro Circo and that will be broadcast live in cinemas in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, with the support of the Murcia City Council and the Professional Videogames League.

"ESports are sports of the 21st century and of the millennial generation that, however, are associated with the values ​​of traditional sports, such as teamwork, skill, strategy and the spirit of overcoming," said José Ballesta , who added that "for the first time our city hosts this competition, the most important in the national arena that, through the virtual world, will fill the seats of the historic Teatro Circo".

This competition has a great reception among fans of video games and, especially, among the youngest, who sold out tickets to attend the event in Murcia in just six days.

The competition will feature, for the first time, an innovative staging that can be enjoyed by on-site spectators and the online public, which is estimated to exceed 80,000 people.

To warm up the engines for the grand final, the Moneo has hosted today a round table focused on the rise of electronic sports.

Under the title 'Discovering eSports, an emerging digital sector', the director of the Professional Videogame League, Álvaro Argüelles, the director of Mediapro Digital Area, Jordi Soler, the general director of Information Technology, Juan José Almela as well as the director of Operations of H2K Gaming, Javier Zafra, have analyzed the situation of the sector.

Strategy in 'La Grieta del Invocador'

The competition is developed through the 'League of Legends', a real-time strategy video game, in which two teams of five members each face each other.

In the final, the best teams in Spain compete face to face to win the most popular videogame map, 'La Grieta del Invocador'.

Skill, imagination and strategy are the qualities that bring together the 'gamers' of this video game that involves a high difficulty at the time of being dominated in a competitive way.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia