Riot Games Arena.
One arena, two esports, a two-hour switch between them.
Riot needed its Los Angeles arena to host two different esports leagues out of the same room: League of Legends and Valorant's VCT Americas.
The two games run on different layouts, broadcast setups, and technical demands, down to capturing the in-game footsteps Valorant broadcasts depend on. The arena had to be both, and change between them fast.
PHNTM handled the integration end to end: feasibility and 3D visualization up front, then custom fabrication, hardware integration, and system commissioning.
The build is an 18-foot stage and more than 1,000 LED screens, designed as one modular system that reconfigures between the two games instead of two separate setups.
PHNTM trained a crew of 12 to 16 to flip the entire venue in about two hours.
The system is engineered to bring that down to one. The result is one room that runs two major leagues, switches between them in roughly two hours, and carries multiple language broadcasts at the same time.
