2023 Sports Emmys: Riot Games' Dave Stewart on Increasing the Popularity of Esports With the League of Legends World Championship The esports giant won the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Esports Championship Coverage By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 10:00 am
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One of the biggest esports production of the year, the League of Legends World Championship, leveraged a full remote production for previous stages in Mexico City, New York City, and Atlanta. The finals, which featured T1 and DRX, culminated in Chase Center in November 2022. Despite the complex operation, Riot Games produced a stellar event, and it translated into winning the 2023 Sports Emmy for Outstanding Esports Championship Coverage.
At the ceremony, Riot Games' Vice President, Esports Content Services, Dave Stewart, recounts the team's effort throughout North America and the recognition that the sport is receiving on a massive scale.
Those credited on the project included:
Executive Producers
Naz Aletaha, Carrie Dunn, John Needham, Dirk Niestadtko tter, Stefan Richardson, Whalen Rozelle, Dave Stewart, Nick Troop
Senior Coordinating Producer
Ben Vignola
Coordinating Producers
Nicole Constantine, William Mo ller, Randall Quick, Kim Van Norman
Senior Producer
Juliet Reason
Supervising Producers
Zeus Ayter, Eamon Frasher
Producers
Chris Anderson, Kerry Brown, Ryan Chung, Graham Dunn, Gary Hebert, Lisa Renkel, Anna Robinson
Videotape Producers
Eunice Chen, Denise Kuan, Manuel Sanchez, Bas Van Olsten
Senior Feature Producers
Nick Brown, Josh Frackleton, Cristian Smeu
Feature Producers
Minh Bui, Patrick Cho, Phil Choi, Daniel Collette, Tyler Erzberger, Willow Forde Garrett Fulwider, Adam Hemmert, Oliver Kemp, Bart Wigger
Field Producer
Alex Pilaski
Senior Coordinating Director
Marc Hilko
Director
Nhat Nguyen
Senior Associate Producer
Anthony Rogers
Associate Producers
George Ahlmeyer, Even Borg Rodahl, Paul Boyd, Matt Dickey, Dennis Fink, Katherine Gripne, John Heilmann, Marcus Jacob, Matt Mersel, Kelsey Moser, Brienne Oliver, Kelsy Salazar, Ali Say
Operations Producers
Michael Alchermes, Michael Caal, Carlos Castillo, Bruno Condez, Jon Daly, Cem Dilektasli, Matt Donovan, Vicente Jimenez, Kris Johnson, Anthony Lee, Seth Lloyd, Monique Molina Paterra, Peter Quain, Clark Stewart, David Talavera, Maxwell Trauss, Stephanie Ura
Associate Directors
Reah Chu, Nick Oliver, Liah Starmann, Cortlan Vitz
Editors
Benjamin Bae, Denniz Ekin Polat, Stefan Minu, Feliksa Pham
World Feed Executive Producer
Samuel Kordower Chaimson
World Feed Producers
Brett Bielling, Jannik Fischer, Eva Mortensen, Martin Szarnas, Michael Ullman
World Feed Director
Charles Anderson
Stage Managers
Marc Baker, Billy Drummed
For more of SVG's coverage of the 2023 Sports Emmys, visit SVG's YouTube channel. For more, video interviews, and podcasts with experts from across the sports video production industry, visit SVG On Demand and SVG PLAY.
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2023 Sports Emmys: Riot Games' Dave Stewart on Increasing the Popularity of Esports With the League of Legends World Championship The esports giant won the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Esports Championship Coverage By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor 
