Inside Arena of Valor’s first World Cup event

On Saturday night, Team Korea was on the verge of going home. Team Thailand trounced them in Tencent’s Arena of Valor World Cup semifinals, winning 3-0. But on Sunday, the squad from South Korea had a chance for redemption as they knocked out Team Chinese Taipei and earned a spot in the grand finals. They were once again up against Thailand, and this time they triumphed, taking home the first-place prize after a tense struggle that went right down to the last game out of seven.

Tencent’s first-ever North American tournament for its multiplayer online battle arena mobile game was lavish, renting out Los Angeles’s historic TCL Chinese Theatre. In addition to high production values, everything was set up in a way to make it easy for viewers to follow along.