The highlight for many fans of League of Legends is the big World Finals, which this time take place in three locations. However, a problem with ticket sales leaves many fans empty-handed.
These are the Worlds 2019: Here, the best LoL players compete to determine which team is the strongest. Those who do particularly well end up in one of the 4 Finals, which will also take place in Berlin.
Anyone who wants to be there as a spectator must purchase a highly sought-after ticket in advance. However, there have now been problems with this, causing many fans to be on the ticket portals at the wrong time and unable to get any tickets.
Problems with ticket purchasing – What happened?
What players are complaining about: On Reddit, a fan complains that the event venue’s website in Paris stated a sales start time for tickets of 4:00 PM. However, on other platforms like Ticketmaster, tickets were already offered 2 hours earlier. By 4:00 PM, everything was sold out and the fan was left without a ticket.
It seems that many potential spectators experienced the same situation, as the thread on Reddit has garnered over 14,000 upvotes.
How are the organizers reacting? Under the Reddit thread, a representative from Riot comments on the incident. He says: “The early sale accounted for only a small portion of the total available tickets. It was intended for our partners who had to secure tickets through the ticket portal this year.”
Although the early sale was presumably only intended for Riot partners, it seems that other customers also jumped on it. It is no wonder that by 4:00 PM, according to the Reddit user, the tickets were already sold out.
This is particularly bitter: For the fans who went empty-handed, there are even more reasons to be upset. Various third-party sellers are now listing the tickets for immense sums on their platforms.
For the event in Paris, some vendors are already charging prices of $700 for a ticket (via Dexerto). Normally, the tickets cost between 15 and 80 Euros.
On German ticket portals, tickets for the event in Berlin are also being traded. There, some ticket auctions are already well over 100 Euros. So even here, fans have to dig deeper into their pockets.
Riot Games recently took a tough stance against an eSports team after one of its players played WoW Classic:
