It’s been an absolute pleasure to show direct the LEC’s post-pandemic awakening in League of Legend’s „Land of the Midnight Sun“ for Jack Morton Germany, Battle Royal Studios, and Riot Games Germany.

For the opening ceremony of the League of Legends European Championship @lecofficial 2022 in Malmö, Battle Royal Studios designed an arena-sized kinetic stage, creative produced a show for a 16-piece orchestra, devised the entry for the 10 players, and staged the singer @cassyette (the voice of the @leagueoflegends season’s anthem “Awakened”).

Adding coolness and determination, we re-defined how RIOT’s European League celebrates their season, finalists, and fans.

Check out the entire Opening Ceremony here.

Read more about the RIOT Games LEC Opening Ceremony in my writeup of the creative process over at Battle Royal Studio’s website.

Services:

• Creative production to produce a concept for the Opening Ceremony, to produce and see through with vendors the stage design for the Opening Ceremony Stage. Establish a production pipeline for the Opening Ceremony.
• Creative Production for the Musical Score, produced by Michael Pitman and Richard Thomson.
• Show Direction for the Opening Ceremony, Team Shot, and Closing Ceremony.
• Show Consultancy Services for all aspects regarding show and stage design, performance elements, sound and lighting design.

A big wave of gratitude to all the people that made this possible, specifically so:⁠

Lead Agency: Jack Morton Germany⁠
Creative Agency: Battle Royal Studios
Managing Director – Jens Mayer
VP⁠ Director of Operations – Dino Celjo⁠⁠

Special thanks to @freaks4ugaming and @niyu.⁠
Lighting Designer: Björn Höschler.
Lighting Programmer: Wolfgang Krämer.

Concept and Creative Production: Battle Royal Studios⁠
Executive Creative Director – @brendan_shelper
Show Director & Creative Producer – @andymachals
Creative Consultants – @buckelsjonathan, @michael.masberg⁠
Stage Director – @deniswe⁠
Choreographer – @ini_hanfmann⁠
Show Caller – @konstanzeagatz⁠
Ceremony Stage Manager – Rebecca Bryant⁠
Renders & Visualisations – @xevi_venan⁠
Technical Concept & Lighting Advisor – @optikalusion⁠
Singer Stand-in – Lea Reiß⁠