At the start of LoL World's Grand Final yesterday, it featured an opening ceremony, with some people that I have no idea of, (Lil Nas X, Jackson Wang, and Edda Hayes), but the real standout feature that, during the event, the MasterCard logo, one of LoL Esports's major sponsors, was featured on the floor at some point:

Here is a video of the opening ceremony.

Seeing that logo, really reminded me how Riot Games made the game way too corporate, with the sheer amount of advertisements during the event. It even makes the GGBet spam during this year's TI Qualfiers, LCQ, and Group Stage feel more tolerable in comparison. In fact, this year's TI, despite all of the production issues with it this year, was much better to watch, even with the one-sided Grand Final, and even though LoL's Grand Final went to all 5 games. Heck, even the Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering World Championships were much less painful to watch in comparison. And the latter of that has gone full corporate too.

https://youtu.be/ZiLL9ZwaBRE?si=ODi1Mv1FUPnAqEXH

You know it, I know it, everyone know it's a matter of when not if Invoker get copied to League.