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Rapoo sponsors League of Legends world championship team to promote pro gaming gear

Wed, 26th Nov 2014
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On 19 October, the grand final contest of the 2014 League of Legends Championship Series was held in Seoul World Cup Stadium, Korea. The iconic sporting venue was a fitting location for this epic e-Sports competition.

League of Legends (LoL) is a fast-paced online game that blends the speed and intensity of an RTS with role of a character, called a "champion". As of January 2014, over 67 million people play League of Legends per month, 27 million per day, and over 7.5 million concurrently during peak hours.

League of Legends Players form opposing teams, each with a unique design and playstyle, to fight across multiple battlefields and game modes.

At World Championship level, each 5-player team is highly professional, with commercial sponsors and a popular following among the game's many millions of global fans. Star Horn Royal Club is a Chinese team that has become famous for a fierce and creative playstyle that earned them 2nd place in this year's LOL World Championship.

Star Horn Royal is exclusively sponsored by Rapoo, with ongoing commitment to the 2015 championship season.

As a pioneering manufacturer of innovative computing peripherals since 2007, Rapoo has developed impressive in-house R-D and product design capabilities. Rapoo develop own gaming 32 bit core V-power 3 inside the flagship gaming keyboard - mouse, which is 4 times faster than normal 8 bit ARM core. Launch in-house design mechanical switch-Rapoo yellow switch, 60 million keystrokes life span.

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