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A number of cinemas and esports organisations will host League of Legends (LoL) Worlds 2024 viewing parties in the UK.
These will take place on the day of the grand final – Saturday November 2nd 2024 – with the opening ceremony starting from 2pm GMT.
As demand is high for the final event at London’s O2, many fans have been unable to secure Worlds 2024 tickets, with some scalpers selling tickets for £2,000+.
This means some may be looking for the next best thing – in-person Worlds 2024 viewing parties.
And a few days ago, Riot Games announced it has teamed up with Piece of Magic Entertainment for cinemas to show watch parties for the grand final.
Which cinemas are hosting Worlds 2024 viewing parties?
There are hundreds of cinemas hosting watch parties, across more than 30 countries.
They have 12+ age rating policies and some of the showings look like they start at 12 midday on November 2nd.
The UK cinema venues for the official Worlds 2024 viewing parties are:
- Cineworld Greenwich, by the London O2
- Odeon Cardiff
- Odeon Dunfermline
- Odeon Kingston
- Odeon Trafford Centre, Manchester
- Vue Cambridge
- Vue Croydon Grant’s
- Vue Bolton
- Vue Bristol Cribbs, Bristol
- Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
- Vue Glasgow St Enoch, Glasgow
- Vue Leeds Light, Leeds Light
- Vue Leicester
- Vue London Westfield (Shepherd’s Bush)
- Vue Manchester Printworks
- Vue Oxford
- Vue Plymouth
- Vue Portsmouth (Gunwharf Quays)
- Vue Reading
- Vue Sheffield
- Vue Swindon
- Vue Swansea
To book tickets, or for other countries, you can view all the cinemas on the lolcinemas.com website.
Esports orgs Fnatic and GiantX to host Worlds 2024 viewing parties
Two London-based esports organisations are also hosting events.
GiantX will be hosting their Worlds watch party at the Samsung KX venue in London, with food and drink provided, giveaways and activities.
There are 130 tickets available, priced at £7.50 each.
Fnatic have also said they’ll be hosting activities around Worlds, including viewing parties that are both offline (at their London HQ) and (with streamer Caedrel).
There will be ARAM 2v2s, giveaways and more. There are further details in the link in this tweet below.
Aside from their team taking part in the Worlds Swiss stage, Fnatic have a Worlds roadmap of activities.
They haven’t gone into the specifics of what these entail, but they’ve named a Summoner’s Showdown from October 21st to 25th, a Bunkr 2.0 (October 28th and 29th), ‘Elevating Esports’ (October 30th) and ‘Esports Unlocked: Opening the doors to Fnatic’ on October 31st.
Bunkr was the name of Fnatic’s old pop-up shop, which closed in 2018.
Are there other Worlds 2024 viewing parties you’ve seen in the UK? Let us know and we’ll add them to this article.
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Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
