The biggest gaming screen in the world is one of the attractions of Rock in Rio 2017! That’s right, for the first time ever there will be videogames in the biggest rock festival of Latin America. Named Game XP, it begins this Friday, 15th, and will go through the weekend, 16 and 17, and into the next week on the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th of September, from 2 pm to 9 pm. This year, the City of Rock has been built in the Olympic Park of Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro.
Game XP is the attraction within Rock in Rio 2017 dedicated to eSports. It’s a partnership with Comic Con Experience, Brazil’s largest pop culture event, which happens in São Paulo and Recife. The organizing group also owns the portals Omelete and The Enemy.
The space will broadcast everything in a big screen, which is 75 meters wide and 20 meters tall (246 x 65 feet), totalizing more than 1.4 thousand square meters (15 thousand square-foot). The screen will be bigger than Churchill’s, in Canada, which was the largest one until now.
There will be matches of the games Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Injustice 2, Clash Royale, PES 2018 and Just Dance.
Other nerd activities
But the nerd attractions won’t end there; Disney will bring to the stage a special activity of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The Game XP will take place in two Olympic arenas. And apart from the eSports arena holding tournaments, there will also be competitions between celebrities, talk shows, and booths of famous brands. Visitors will watch the best gamers in Brazil competing, with live shoutcasting. Classic gaming soundtracks will be played nonstop by DJs and bands live on stage.
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